IN-VEHICLE SHARED-SCREEN SYSTEM WITH WRITE BACK TO MULTIPLE USER ACCOUNTS

• US 20170099279A1
• Filed: 12/16/2016
• Published: 04/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Tamp, Fabian John
• Granted Patent: US 11,273,709 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/55 Remote control arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/563 Vehicle displaying mobile device information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/589 Wireless data transfers
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/741 Instruments adapted for user detection
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/55 Remote controls
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/563 Vehicle displaying mobile device information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/589 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/73 with special adaptation to the user or to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/736 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/739 the user being the passenger
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/741 User detection
• 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: B60K 35/65 Instruments specially adapted for specific vehicle types or users, e.g. for left- or right-hand drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/654 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/656 the user being a passenger
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/30 : Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 : Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2103 : Challenge-response
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 : for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 : Entity profiles
• 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 67/141 : Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 : Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 : using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 : for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 : for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

In some examples, a vehicle head unit of a vehicle includes at least one processor; and at least one module operable to: responsive to authenticating a first user at a vehicle head unit of a vehicle, establish a session with a first user identifier, the first user identifier associated with the first user; responsive to authenticating a second user at the vehicle head unit, associate a second user identifier with the session, the second user identifier associated with the second user, wherein the first and second user identifiers are concurrently associated with the session; generate data while the first and second user identifiers are concurrently associated with the session; and store, based on the first user identifier and the second user identifier, the data to both a first user account associated with the first user identifier and a second user account associated with the second user identifier.

Claims

1. A vehicle head unit of a vehicle, the vehicle head unit comprising:

at least one processor; and

a storage device that stores at least one module operable by the at least one processor to;

authenticate a first user at the vehicle head unit;

responsive to authenticating the first user;

establish a session; and

associate the session with a user identifier associated with the first user;

authenticate a second user at the vehicle head unit;

responsive to authenticating the second user, associate the session with a user identifier associated with the second user, wherein the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session;

while the user identifiers associated with the first and second users are concurrently associated with the session, store location information to both a first user account associated with the first user and a second user account associated with the second user.

2. The vehicle head unit of claim 1, wherein the at least one module is operable by the at least one processor to:

determine, based on the location information and data associated with a user account of the first user, one or more points of interests for the first user;

determine, based on at least one privacy control, whether to display each of the one or more points of interest for the first user; and

responsive to determining to display at least a portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user, output, for display, the portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user.

3. The vehicle head unit of claim 2, wherein the at least one module is operable by the at least one processor to:

determine, based on the location information and data associated with a user account of the second user, one or more points of interests for the second user;

determine, based on at least one privacy control, whether to display each of the one or more points of interest for the second user; and

while the portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user are being output for display and responsive to determining not to display the one or more points of interests for the second user, suppress the one or more points of interests for the second user from being output for display.

4. The vehicle head unit of claim 1, wherein the at least one module is operable by the at least one processor to authenticate the second user by at least being operable to:

determine whether a trust relationship between the first user and the second user satisfies a threshold;

if the trust relationship satisfies the threshold, provide the first authentication challenge to the second user; and

if the trust relationship does not satisfy the threshold, provide the second authentication challenge to the second user, wherein the first authentication challenge is weaker than the second authentication challenge.

5. The vehicle head unit of claim 1, wherein the vehicle head unit is included in a shared-screen environment, wherein the at least one module is operable by the at least one processor to:

determine one or more indications that indicate at least a role or identity of at least one of the first user or the second user in the shared-screen environment;

compare the one or more indications to a set of one or more criteria to determine the role or identity of the at least one of the first user or the second user in the shared-screen environment; and

responsive to receiving an indication of user input from the at least one of the first user or the second user in the shared-screen environment, execute, based at least in part on the role or identity of the at least one of the first user or the second user, one or more operations.

6. The vehicle head unit of claim 1, wherein the at least one module is operable by the at least one processor to store at least one of a playlist history of music played while the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session or a search history of searches conducted while the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session.

7. The vehicle head unit of claim 1, wherein the at least one module that is operable by the at least one processor to store the location history by at least being operable to:

generate a request that includes the location history, the user identifier associated with the first user, and the user identifier associated with the second user; and

send the request to at least one remote server to store the location history for each of the first user account and the second user account based on the user identifier associated with the first user, and the user identifier associated with the second user.

8. The vehicle head unit of claim 1, further comprising:

a presence-sensitive display,

wherein the vehicle head unit is included in a shared-screen environment that includes each of the first and second users, and

wherein the presence-sensitive display is physically accessible by each of the first and second users in the shared-screen environment.

9. A method comprising:

responsive to authenticating a first user at a vehicle head unit of a vehicle;

establishing, by the vehicle head unit, a session; and

associating the sessions with a user identifier associated with the first user;

responsive to authenticating a second user at the vehicle head unit, associating, by the vehicle head unit, the session with a user identifier associated with the second user, wherein the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session;

while the user identifiers associated with the first and second users are concurrently associated with the session, storing location information to both a first user account associated with the first user and a second user account associated with the second user.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining, by the vehicle head unit and based on the location information and data associated with a user account of the first user, one or more points of interests for the first user;

determining, by the vehicle head unit and based on at least one privacy control, whether to display each of the one or more points of interest for the first user; and

responsive to determining to display at least a portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user, outputting, for display, the portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining, based on the location information and data associated with a user account of the second user, one or more points of interests for the second user;

determining, based on at least one privacy control, whether to display each of the one or more points of interest for the second user; and

while the portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user are being output for display and responsive to determining not to display the one or more points of interests for the second user, suppressing the one or more points of interests for the second user from being output for display.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining whether a trust relationship between the first user and the second user satisfies a threshold;

if the trust relationship satisfies the threshold, providing the first authentication challenge to the second user; and

if the trust relationship does not satisfy the threshold, providing the second authentication challenge to the second user, wherein the first authentication challenge is weaker than the second authentication challenge.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the vehicle head unit is included in a shared-screen environment, the method further comprising:

determining one or more indications that indicate at least a role or identity of at least one of the first user or the second user in the shared-screen environment;

comparing the one or more indications to a set of one or more criteria to determine the role or identity of the at least one of the first user or the second user in the shared-screen environment; and

responsive to receiving an indication of user input from the at least one of the first user or the second user in the shared-screen environment, executing, based at least in part on the role or identity of the at least one of the first user or the second user, one or more operations.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

storing at least one of a playlist history of music played while the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session or a search history of searches conducted while the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

generating a request that includes the location history, the user identifier associated with the first user, and the user identifier associated with the second user; and

sending the request to at least one remote server to store the data for each of the first user account and the second user account based on the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user.

16. The method of claim 9,

wherein the vehicle head unit comprises a presence-sensitive display,

wherein the vehicle head unit is included in a shared-screen environment that includes each of the first and second users, and

wherein the presence-sensitive display is physically accessible by each of the first and second users in the shared-screen environment.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor of a computing device to:

authenticate a first user at the vehicle head unit;

responsive to authenticating the first user;

establish a session; and

associate the session with a user identifier associated with the first user;

authenticate a second user at the vehicle head unit;

responsive to authenticating the second user, associate the session with a user identifier associated with the second user, wherein the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session;

while the user identifiers associated with the first and second users are concurrently associated with the session, store location information to both a first user account associated with the first user and a second user account associated with the second user.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

determine, based on the location information and data associated with a user account of the first user, one or more points of interests for the first user;

determine, based on at least one privacy control, whether to display each of the one or more points of interest for the first user; and

responsive to determining to display at least a portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user, output, for display, the portion of the one or more points of interests for the first user.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

determine whether a trust relationship between the first user and the second user satisfies a threshold;

if the trust relationship satisfies the threshold, provide the first authentication challenge to the second user; and

if the trust relationship does not satisfy the threshold, provide the second authentication challenge to the second user, wherein the first authentication challenge is weaker than the second authentication challenge.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to store at least one of a playlist history of music played while the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session or a search history of searches conducted while the user identifier associated with the first user and the user identifier associated with the second user are concurrently associated with the session.