DATA AGGREGATION AND DELIVERY

• US 20150244805A1
• Filed: 02/27/2014
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Harman International Industries Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Harman International Industries Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Rao, Suhas, Kulkarni, Sujay, Hampiholi, Vallabha Vasant, Ganapathy, Girisha, Chandrashekar, Sharath
• Granted Patent: US 10,284,651 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

Embodiments are disclosed for systems and methods for controlling data aggregation and delivery between multiple user devices. In some embodiments, an in-vehicle computing system comprises a processor, an external device interface communicatively coupleable to an extra-vehicle server, and a storage device storing instructions executable by the processor. The instructions may be executable to send user information to the extra-vehicle server, the user information including information identifying a primary user of the in-vehicle computing system, receive targeted information from the server, the targeted information based on contextual information determined from interaction of the primary user with another device, and present the targeted information.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle computing system, comprising:

a processor;

an external device interface communicatively coupleable to an extra-vehicle server; and

a storage device storing instructions executable by the processor to;

send user information to the extra-vehicle server, the user information including information identifying a primary user of the in-vehicle computing system;

receive targeted information from the server, the targeted information based on contextual information determined from interaction of the primary user with another device; and

present the targeted information.

2. The in-vehicle computing system of claim 1, wherein the targeted information includes navigational data for a navigation application of the in-vehicle computing system and presenting the targeted information includes inputting the navigational data to the navigation application.

3. The in-vehicle computing system of claim 1, wherein presenting the targeted information includes presenting the targeted information while displaying an application of the in-vehicle computing system that has system-wide focus.

4. The in-vehicle computing system of claim 1, wherein the user information is generated at the in-vehicle computing system via user input.

5. The in-vehicle computing system of claim 1, wherein the user information is retrieved at the in-vehicle computing system from the storage device.

6. The in-vehicle computing system of claim 1, wherein the user information is determined at the in-vehicle computing system based on captured data from one or more sensors of the in-vehicle computing system, the user information including an identity of the user determined via one or more of facial recognition and voice recognition performed on the captured data.

7. The in-vehicle computing system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further executable to send vehicle status information to the extra-vehicle server.

8. The in-vehicle computing system of claim 1, wherein the targeted information is presented at the in-vehicle computing system responsive to receiving the targeted information and the targeted information is received at the in-vehicle computing system without user input requesting the targeted information.

9. A system for delivering targeted data to user devices, the system comprising:

a data integration subsystem that receives data from an in-vehicle computing system and at least one other user device;

an analytics engine that analyzes the received data; and

a data delivery engine that generates and sends targeted information to the in-vehicle computing system based on results from the analytics engine responsive to detecting that a user of the at least one other user device is interacting with the in-vehicle computing system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the analytics engine analyzes the received data based on historical data for one or more of the user and the user device to determine a behavior of the user.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one other device includes one or more of a television, an audio/video receiver, and a mobile device and wherein the data from the at least one other device includes an identifier of content presented by the at least one other device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the data delivery engine sends the targeted information to the at least one other user device before detecting that the user of the at least one other user device is interacting with the in-vehicle computing system.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the data delivery engine generates a list of recommended products, services, and/or points of interest related to the content and sends the list to the at least one other device.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the data delivery engine sends the results from the analytics engine to a third party device, the third party device being different from the in-vehicle computing system and the at least one other device.

14. The system of claim 14, wherein the targeted information includes navigation data associated with a selected item of the list of recommended products, services, and/or points of interest, the selected item being selected via a user interface of the at least one other device.

16. A method for delivering targeted information to one or more user devices, the method comprising:

receiving user information, the user information including information identifying a primary user of an in-vehicle computing system;

aggregating the user information with information from one or more other devices associated with the primary user to determine contextual information for the primary user;

generating targeted information based on the contextual information;

sending the targeted information to a selected device of the one or more other devices.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising receiving an indication of the user using the selected device and sending the targeted information to the selected device responsive to receiving the indication.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein aggregating the user information with information from one or more other devices includes aggregating the user information with information from social network profiles associated with the user.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein aggregating the user information with information from one or more other devices includes aggregating the user information with user preference information.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein aggregating the user information with information from one or more other devices includes estimating one or more parameters of a user lifestyle and wherein generating the targeted information includes determining one or more products, services, and/or points of interest relevant to the contextual information and filtering the determined products, services, and/or points of interest based on the estimated user lifestyle.