WEB RENDERING FOR SMART MODULE

• US 20180217966A1
• Filed: 01/31/2017
• Published: 08/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: BUTTOLO, Pietro, CHEN, Yifan, RANKIN, II, James Stewart, WANG, Mengchi, SHARMA, Abhishek, SALTER, Stuart C.
• Application Number:
  US15/420,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20180217966A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• 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

Abstract

A system includes a personal device in communication with a vehicle component and an on-board server and including a processor programmed to receive, from the component, an advertisement defining a low-footprint interface template and a unique identifier indicative of a corresponding rich content interface template, send, to the server, a request including the identifier to provide the corresponding template, and, upon receipt of the corresponding template, render a rich content user interface based on the corresponding template.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a personal device, in communication with a vehicle component and an on-board server, including a processor programmed to;

receive, from the component, an advertisement defining a low-footprint interface template of component functions and a unique identifier of a rich content interface template of the functions,

send, to the server, a request including the identifier to provide the corresponding template, and

render a rich content user interface according to the corresponding template.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface derived from the low-footprint interface template defines a plurality of selectable controls, each indicating a component function, and the user interface derived from the rich content interface template defines a graphic generated using a markup format and indicating the functions.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the personal device further includes a storage configured to store a plurality of unique identifiers and the corresponding rich content interface templates, and wherein the processor is further configured to send the request to the server in response to detecting that the rich content interface template corresponding to the advertised unique identifier is unavailable in the storage.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the stored unique identifiers and the corresponding rich content interface templates originate from one of a prior request to the server, an initial installation of a software application for processing the low-footprint interface templates and the rich content interface templates to render the corresponding user interfaces, or a download of an add-on data file for supplementing the software application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the personal device is further configured to communicate with an interface template server located off-board and configured to store a plurality of unique identifiers and the corresponding rich content interface templates, and wherein the processor is further configured to send, to the interface template server, a request including the identifier to provide the corresponding template in response to receiving a notification from the on-board server that the corresponding template is unavailable.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the processor is further configured to send, to the vehicle component, a request to provide an intermediate content interface template in response to the corresponding template being unavailable from the interface template server.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the user interface derived from the intermediate content interface template defines selectable controls of the low-footprint interface template supplemented with vector-based graphic icons and images.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to render the user interface derived from the low-footprint interface template in response to the intermediate content interface template being unavailable.

9. A method for a personal device comprising:

receiving, from a vehicle component, an advertisement defining a low-footprint interface template of component functions and a unique identifier of a corresponding rich content interface template of the functions,

in response to respective notifications from an on-hoard server and a vehicle component interface template server indicating that the corresponding rich content interface template being requested is unavailable, sending, to the vehicle component, a request to provide an intermediate content interface template of the functions, and

rendering an intermediate content user interface according to the received template.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the user interface derived from the intermediate content interface template defines selectable controls of the low-footprint template, each control indicating a component function, supplemented with vector-based graphic icons and images.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the user interface derived from the rich content interface template defines graphics generated using a markup format and indicating the functions.

12. The method of claim 9 further comprising rendering a low-footprint content interface derived from the low-footprint interface template in response to a notification, from the vehicle component, indicating that the intermediate content interface template is unavailable.

13. The method of claim 9 further comprising detecting from an internal storage query using the unique identifier that the corresponding rich content interface template is unavailable prior to sending the intermediate content interface template request to the vehicle component.

14. A vehicle system comprising:

an on-board server including a data store and a wireless transceiver configured to establish communication with a personal device, the server being configured to, in response to a request from the personal device, query the data store to identify a rich content interface template of component functions that corresponds to a unique identifier received with the request and, upon identification, send the corresponding template to the personal device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein a user interface derived from the rich content interface template defines graphics generated using a markup format and indicating the functions.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the data store includes a plurality of the unique identifiers and the corresponding rich content interface templates as a result of sending, to an interface template server located off-board, a prior request including the identifier to provide the corresponding template.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the wireless transceiver is further configured to establish communication with an in-vehicle component and an interface template server and wherein the on-board server is further configured to, in response to detecting an advertisement, from the vehicle component, including the unique identifier and the query returning zero results, send, to the interface template server, a request including the identifier to provide the corresponding template and, upon receipt, send the corresponding template to the personal device.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the advertisement further includes a low-footprint interface template defining a low-footprint user interface including a plurality of selectable controls, each control indicating a different one of the functions.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the on-board server is further configured to store the corresponding, template in the data store.