Vehicle Based Content Sharing

• US 20170104824A1
• Filed: 10/09/2015
• Published: 04/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Bajwa, Manpreet Singh, Makke, Omar, MacNeille, Perry Robinson, Gusikhin, Oleg Yurievitch
• Granted Patent: US 10,952,054 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• 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 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

An infotainment system in a vehicle includes at least one processor configured to, in response to occurrence of a trigger condition defined by an invitation from a source remote from the vehicle and identifying media content and to acceptance of the invitation, select a medium carrying the media content to play the media content. The trigger condition may be a current location of the vehicle matching a specified location, a weather condition at a current location of the vehicle matching a specified weather condition, a current speed of the vehicle exceeding a specified speed, a current date matching a specified date, or a current time of day matching a specified time of day. Alternatively, the trigger condition may be a signal indicating presence of a passenger or presence of a connection with a mobile device.

Claims

1. An infotainment system in a vehicle comprising:

at least one processor configured to, in response to occurrence of a trigger condition defined by an invitation from a source remote from the vehicle and identifying media content and to acceptance of the invitation, select a medium carrying the media content to play the media content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the trigger condition is a current location of the vehicle matching a specified location, a weather condition at a current location of the vehicle matching a specified weather condition, or a current speed of the vehicle exceeding a specified speed.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the trigger condition is a current date matching a specified date or a current time of day matching a specified time of day.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the trigger condition is a signal indicating presence of a passenger or presence of a connection with a mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the medium is a terrestrial radio channel.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the medium is a file in non-volatile memory.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the media content is speech, music, or images.

8. An infotainment system in a vehicle comprising:

at least one processor configured to associate a driver specified trigger condition defining circumstances regarding when to play media content with an invitation from a source remote from the vehicle, and in response to occurrence of the trigger condition and acceptance of the invitation, select a medium carrying the media content to play the media content.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the source remote from the vehicle is a remote vehicle infotainment system.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the invitation from the source remote is received using Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC).

11. The system of claim 8 further comprising media storage medium configured to store data files of multimedia content, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, in response to reception of a share invitation from a remote source identifying media content and input indicative of selection of the media content received from a control interface of the vehicle, select a data file from the media storage medium based on the share invitation to play the media content.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the trigger condition is a current location of the vehicle matching a specified location, a weather condition at the current location of the vehicle matching a specified weather condition, or a current speed of the vehicle exceeding a specified speed.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the trigger condition is a current date matching a specified date or a time of day matching a specified time of day.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the trigger condition is a status of a signal associated with detection of a passenger or connection with a mobile device.

15. A method comprising:

by a computer,

receiving from a first vehicle an invitation identifying media content, an alias of another vehicle and a trigger condition;

identifying a target vehicle associated with the alias; and

in response to a match of the trigger condition with a current condition of the target vehicle, sending to the target vehicle the invitation.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the trigger condition is a current location of the target vehicle, a weather condition at a current location of the vehicle, or a current speed of the vehicle.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the trigger condition is a date or a time of day on the date.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the trigger condition is a signal based on detection of a passenger or a connection with a mobile device.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the alias is a call-sign or code-name.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein receiving is via a cellular network or Wi-Fi.