Vehicle Supervising of Occupant Applications

• US 20160269469A1
• Filed: 03/09/2016
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AutoConnect Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: AutoConnect Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Ricci, Christopher P.
• Application Number:
  US15/065,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20160269469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• 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: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• 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: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A vehicle communication system and method for allowing a user device to stream content to a vehicle display is provided. The communication system receives a request from the user device, approves or denies a user request to connect to the vehicle display, and facilitates streaming of an application running on the user device to the vehicle display.

Claims

1. A method of monitoring a device within a vehicle, comprising:

providing a vehicle control system within the vehicle including an application;

providing a plurality of vehicle sensors to provide information to the vehicle control system regarding the device;

receiving a request from a user of a vehicle to monitor the device;

identifying devices functioning within the vehicle by the vehicle control system;

determining monitoring parameters associated with the monitored device by the vehicle control system;

establishing communication with the monitored device;

monitoring the monitored device by at least one vehicle sensor with respect to the monitoring parameters; and

wherein if any monitoring parameter is violated, taking an associated action.

2. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said receiving step is executed by at least one of interaction with a touch sensitive display of the vehicle control system or interaction with a visual display of the vehicle that communicates with the vehicle control system.

3. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said monitoring step may be specialized to monitor each separate device being used within the vehicle, and each device being monitored for at least one of a particular application being accessed by the device or monitoring to follow default parameters stored in a database containing the monitoring parameters.

4. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said monitoring parameters are changed by a request from a user so that said monitoring step is conducted by at least one pre-existing nominal parameter or a change parameter.

5. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said identifying step includes providing a display to the user of the vehicle that is a listing of the functioning devices that are operating.

6. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said determining step includes a consideration of data stored within a memory associated with the vehicle control system or a user input allowing a user to selectively create monitoring parameters.

7. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said monitoring parameters include at least one of a visual or audible notice to the user of the vehicle or a user of a monitored device regarding operating of the device or executing/running of one or more identified applications or access to one or more identified websites or use of any keyword used by the monitored device or use of any identified numbers used by the monitored device or volume settings of the monitored device.

8. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said monitoring parameters each have a corresponding associated action to be taken if the monitoring parameter is violated.

9. A method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the associated action may include at least one of freezing the monitored device or turning off the monitored device or issuing an audible or visual alarm.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the device executes on a mobile operating system and the vehicle executes on a non-mobile operating system.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the device is a mobile telecommunications device.

10. The method of claim with 1, wherein the application executes on a different operating system than the vehicle operating system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the operating system comprises use of a shared kernel.

14. A method of monitoring a device within a vehicle, comprising:

providing a vehicle control system within the vehicle;

providing a plurality of vehicle sensors to provide information to the vehicle control system regarding the device;

receiving a request from a user of a vehicle to monitor the device;

establishing communication with the monitored device;

monitoring the monitored device by at least one vehicle sensor with respect to monitoring parameters; and

wherein if any monitoring parameter is violated, taking an associated action.

15. A method of monitoring a device within a vehicle, comprising:

providing a vehicle control system within the vehicle;

providing a plurality of vehicle sensors to provide information to the vehicle control system regarding the device;

receiving a request from a user of a vehicle to monitor the device;

establishing communication with the monitored device;

monitoring the monitored device by at least one vehicle sensor with respect to monitoring parameters that are pre-established; and

wherein if any monitoring parameter is violated, taking an associated action, the associated action including at least one of freezing the monitored device or turning off the monitored device or issuing an audible or visual alarm.