AUTOMATIC AND ADAPTIVE SELECTION OF MULTIMEDIA SOURCES
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Abstract
Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle.
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30 Claims
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11. A vehicle communication system, comprising:
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two or more BLUETOOTH transceivers; a communication system comprising; two or more communication modules; a signal processor; wherein the signal processor is operable to; determine one or more of available resources, available devices, and available sources; determine multimedia sources associated with the available resources, available devices, and available sources; receive input on a user interface of the vehicle, wherein the input multimedia; route the input to an available resource, available device, and available source; receive a multimedia steam from an available resource, available device, and available source; and present the multimedia stream on an output of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, the computer executable instructions causing a processor to execute a method for providing a universal bus, the computer-executable instructions comprising:
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instructions to determine one or more of available resources, available devices, and available sources; instructions to determine multimedia sources associated with the available resources, available devices, and available sources; instructions to receive input on a user interface of the vehicle, wherein the input multimedia; instructions to route the input to an available resource, available device, and available source; instructions to receive a multimedia steam from an available resource, available device, and available source; and instructions to present the multimedia stream on an output of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method, comprising:
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determining an availability of multimedia sources, wherein each of the multimedia sources is configured to provide multimedia content to an output of a vehicle, wherein the multimedia sources are located within the vehicle; receiving multimedia information from each of the multimedia sources determined to be available; determining, based on the received multimedia information, multimedia content provided by each of the multimedia sources; presenting a consolidated list of the multimedia content, determined to be available on the multimedia sources within the vehicle, to a user interface of the vehicle, wherein the consolidated list identifies the multimedia content associated therewith; receiving, via the user interface of the vehicle, an input selecting a first multimedia content from the consolidated list; selecting, automatically via a processor, a first multimedia source from the multimedia sources to provide the first multimedia content to the output of the vehicle; and caching the first multimedia content from the first multimedia source and a second multimedia source of the multimedia sources. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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