VEHICLE PROXY LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

• US 20150312317A1
• Filed: 04/29/2014
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: WEHRMAN, Edward, HALASH, Elizabeth, BANKOWSKI, Stefan, BURDETTE, Kevin, THORNE, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/264,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20150312317A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A device may register a mobile application with a vehicle-based computing system (VCS) using an application proxy configured to manage nomadic device connection to the VCS, and utilize the application proxy, by the mobile application, to present a mobile application user interface via a human-machine interface (HMI) of the VCS in accordance with an HMI status received from the VCS and indicative of a level of mobile application HMI access.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a nomadic device configured to

register a mobile application with a vehicle-based computing system (VCS) using an application proxy configured to manage a nomadic device connection to the VCS, and

utilize the application proxy, by the mobile application, to present a mobile application user interface, via a human-machine interface (HMI) of the VCS, according to an HMI status received from the VCS and indicative of a level of mobile application HMI access.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to receive the HMI status from the VCS responsive to the mobile application being moved into a foreground of the HMI of the VCS, and wherein the HMI status indicates that the mobile application is given full access to the HMI.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to perform user interface initialization with the VCS when the mobile application determines that the mobile application has not previously received an HMI status of full access to the HMI.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to receive the HMI status by the application proxy, via the connection, to a proxy listener of the mobile application.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the HMI status is received by the proxy listener responsive to user selection of the mobile application from a mobile applications menu of the VCS.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to un-initialize mobile application use of the application proxy responsive to receipt of a notification via a proxy closed callback of the proxy listener indicating to the mobile application that the application proxy is disconnected from the VCS.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to:

instantiate the application proxy as a background process of the nomadic device;

receive, from the VCS by the application proxy, a query for mobile applications available on the nomadic device; and

respond to the VCS by the application proxy with a listing of the mobile applications available on the nomadic device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to:

receive, by the mobile application via the connection, a second HMI status indicating a second level of HMI access of the mobile application to the HMI of the VCS; and

interact, by the mobile application, with the HMI in accordance with the second HMI status.

9. A system comprising:

a vehicle-based computing system (VCS) configured to

receive a registration of a proxy listener of a mobile from a nomadic device application proxy;

send an HMI status to the proxy listener indicative of a level of mobile application HMI access to be provided to the mobile application; and

present a mobile application user interface, via a VCS human-machine interface (HMI), in accordance with the HMI status.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the VCS is further configured to send the HMI status responsive to the mobile application being moved into a foreground of the HMI of the VCS, and wherein the HMI status indicates that the mobile application is given full access to the HMI.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the HMI status is configured to cause the nomadic device to perform user interface initialization with the VCS when the mobile application determines that the mobile application has not previously received an HMI status of full access to the HMI.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the VCS is further configured to send the HMI status via a connection to the proxy listener of the mobile application managed by the application proxy.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the HMI status is received by the proxy listener responsive to user selection of the mobile application from a mobile applications menu of the VCS.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the VCS is further configured to send a notification via a proxy closed callback of the proxy listener indicating to the mobile application that the application proxy is disconnected from the VCS to cause the mobile application to un-initialize use of the application proxy.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to:

instantiate the application proxy as a background process of the nomadic device;

receive, from the VCS by the application proxy, a query for mobile applications available on the nomadic device; and

respond to the VCS by the application proxy with a listing of the mobile applications available on the nomadic device.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the VCS is further configured to:

send, to the mobile application, a second HMI status indicating a second level of HMI access of the mobile application to the HMI of the VCS; and

update presentation of the mobile application user interface in accordance with the second HMI status.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor of a nomadic device, are configured to cause the nomadic device to:

register a mobile application with a vehicle-based computing system (VCS) using an application proxy configured to manage nomadic device connection to the VCS; and

utilize the application proxy, by the mobile application, to present a mobile application user interface, via a human-machine interface (HMI) of the VCS, according to an HMI status received from the VCS and indicative of a level of mobile application HMI access.

18. The medium of claim 17, further including instructions configured to cause the nomadic device to:

receive the HMI status, from the VCS by the application proxy, via the connection, to a proxy listener of the mobile application, responsive to the mobile application being moved into a foreground of the HMI of the VCS, wherein the HMI status indicates that the mobile application is given full access to the HMI; and

perform user interface initialization with the VCS when the mobile application determines that the mobile application has not previously received an HMI status of full access to the HMI.

19. The medium of claim 17, further including instructions configured to cause the nomadic device to:

instantiate the application proxy as a background process of the nomadic device;

receive, from the VCS by the application proxy, a query for mobile applications available on the nomadic device; and

respond to the VCS by the application proxy with a listing of the mobile applications available on the nomadic device.

20. The medium of claim 17, further including instructions configured to cause the nomadic device to:

receive, by the mobile application via the connection, a second HMI status indicating a second level of HMI access of the mobile application to the HMI of the VCS; and

interact, by the mobile application, with the HMI in accordance with the second HMI status.