Internal vehicle telematics data access

• US 9,371,004 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2014
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Bandy, Steven, Wilson, Mark, Wehrman, Edward, Marchwicki, Julius
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Luke
• Application Number:
  US14/487,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20160075232A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 701/117, 701/29.3, 701/31.3, 701/31.4, 709/217
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/563 Vehicle displaying mobile device information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/583 Data transfer between instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/5899 Internet
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/592 Data transfer involving external databases
• 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 35/213 Virtual instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/265 Voice
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/023 for transmission of signals between vehicle parts or subsystems
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B

Abstract

A nomadic device may connect to a vehicle computing system (VCS) and be configured to identify data element parameter information associated with a gauge to be displayed, capture, using a data bridge adapter connected to a vehicle network, an element of vehicle data according to the data element parameter information, and display, via the VCS, the gauge including the element of vehicle data formatted according to the data element parameter information. A VCS may be configured to receive filtered vehicle data from a telematics gateway configured to provide a subset of vehicle data provided over a vehicle network, receive vehicle data from a nomadic device in communication with a data bridge adapter configured to capture vehicle data provided over the vehicle network, and utilize the vehicle data to provide information via the VCS unavailable via the filtered vehicle data.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a nomadic device connected to a vehicle computing system (VCS) and configured to

display, via the VCS, at least one element selection control configure to allow a user to select which element of vehicle data is to be displayed by a gauge,

receive an indication of the element of vehicle data to be displayed by the gauge responsive to user input to the at least one element selection control,

identify data element parameter information associated with the gauge to be displayed according to the indication,

capture, using a data bridge adapter connected to a vehicle network, an element of vehicle data according to the data element parameter information, and

display, via the VCS, the gauge including the element of vehicle data formatted according to the data element parameter information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle network includes a controller-area network.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the VCS is configured to receive filtered vehicle data from the vehicle network via a telematics data gateway, and the element of vehicle data is filtered out of the filtered vehicle data by the telematics data gateway.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to

capture, using a data bridge adapter connected to a vehicle network, a plurality of elements of the vehicle data according to the data element parameter information,

associate the plurality of elements of the vehicle data with positional information, and

store the plurality of elements of the vehicle data in association with the positional information as a vehicle run.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to store the plurality of elements of the vehicle data by uploading the plurality of elements of the vehicle data to a remote server.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to associate the plurality of elements of the vehicle data with positional information according to global positioning information received from at least one of a global positioning data receiver of the nomadic device and global positioning data receiver of the vehicle.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to utilize elements of the plurality of elements of the vehicle data including at least one of speed, heading, and acceleration to improve accuracy of the positional information determined according to the global positioning information.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to augment the plurality of elements of the vehicle data with at least one of audio data and video data captured by the nomadic device.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to associate the plurality of elements of the vehicle data with a label based on a time and a location of capture of the vehicle data.

10. The system of claim 4, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to:

receive a selection of the plurality of elements of the vehicle data from a listing of stored vehicle data, and

display the plurality of elements of the vehicle data in a user interface.

11. A system comprising:

a vehicle user interface, and

a vehicle computing system (VCS) configured to;

receive an indication of a gauge to be displayed via the user interface,

receive vehicle data from a nomadic device in communication with a data bridge adapter connected to a vehicle network,

identify data element parameter information associated with an element of the vehicle data for the gauge, and

display the gauge including the element of the vehicle data to the user interface, formatted according to the data element parameter information.

12. The system of claim 11,

wherein the (VCS) is further configured to:

receive filtered vehicle data from a telematics gateway configured to provide a subset of vehicle data provided over a vehicle network,

and

utilize the vehicle data to provide information via the VCS unavailable via the filtered vehicle data.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the vehicle network includes a controller-area network.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the data element parameter information specifies formatting information including at least one of a name of the element of the vehicle data to include in the user interface, a display range of values for the element, a warning level above or below which the user interface should display a warning for the element, and a unit of measure in which to present the element in a user interface.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the data element parameter information specifies data element information including at least one of a definition of where the element appears in the vehicle data and in what data format the element appears in the vehicle data.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the VCS is further configured to:

provide a start indication to the nomadic device to begin capture of the vehicle data via the data bridge adapter, and

provide an end indication to the nomadic device to stop the capture of the vehicle data via the data bridge adapter.

17. A method comprising:

receiving, via a user interface of a vehicle, an indication of a gauge to be displayed;

receiving vehicle data from a nomadic device in communication with a data bridge adapter connected to a vehicle network;

identifying data element parameter information associated with an element of the vehicle data; and

displaying the gauge including the element of the vehicle data to the user interface, formatted according to the data element parameter information.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the data element parameter information specifies formatting information including at least one of a name of the element of the vehicle data to include in the user interface, a display range of values for the element, a warning level above or below which the user interface should display a warning for the element, and a unit of measure in which to present the element in a user interface.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the data element parameter information specifies data element information including at least one of a definition of where the element appears in the vehicle data and in what data format the element appears in the vehicle data.