In-vehicle web presentation

• US 9,680,963 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2016
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Livio, Inc. (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Livio, Inc. (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Danne, Philip Joseph, Smereka, Scott, Sigal, Jacob R., Grover, Joey Ray
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Claude J
• Application Number:
  US14/993,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20160127503A1
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• Field of Search: 23547201
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/186 Displaying information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/589 Wireless data transfers
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0373 Voice control in general G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• 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 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

One or more controller may extract voice commands from retrieved web content, format the web content according to vehicle computing system (VCS) specific formatting information, provide the formatted web content for display by the VCS, and update the recognized voice commands of the VCS according to the extracted voice commands. A server may identify whether a received web request for web content is directed to a vehicle sub-domain for providing an in-vehicle-specific version of the content, identify whether the received web request is for presentation of web content via a VCS, and redirect the web request to the vehicle sub-domain when the request is not directed to the vehicle sub-domain and is for presentation via the VCS.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying, by a server, whether a received web request for web content is directed to a vehicle sub-domain for providing an in-vehicle-specific version of the content;

identifying whether the received web request is for presentation of web content via a vehicle computing system (VCS); and

redirecting the web request to the vehicle sub-domain when the request is not directed to the vehicle sub-domain and is for presentation via the VCS.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising redirecting the web request away from the vehicle sub-domain when the request is directed to the vehicle sub-domain and is not for presentation via the VCS.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying that the web content is for presentation via the VCS according to user-agent information included in a header of the request indicating that request is for display by the VCS.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the in-vehicle-specific version of the content includes hypertext markup tags and voice commands defined for voice control of the hypertext markup tags.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the in-vehicle-specific version of the content includes a cascading style sheet for in-vehicle web content presentation.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving user-agent information in a header of the web request indicating that the web content is for display by the VCS, wherein identifying whether the received web request for web content is directed to the vehicle sub-domain for providing an in-vehicle-specific version of the content includes reviewing the header of the web request.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle sub-domain is one or more of:

c, car, v, vehicle, or ivi.

8. A system comprising:

a memory storing a cascading style sheet for in-vehicle web content presentation and retrieved web content including hypertext markup tags and voice commands defined for voice control of the hypertext markup tags; and

a controller programmed to

provide the web content to an in-vehicle display formatted according to the cascading style sheet, and

update an in-vehicle voice command interface according to the voice commands.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the controller is further programmed to:

update the cascading style sheet based on vehicle requirements including at least two of color, size, or location; and

apply the cascading style sheet as updated to the web content to cause the web content to be configured in conformance with the vehicle requirements.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the controller is further programmed to validate the web content as being in compliance with in-vehicle web standard requirements.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the in-vehicle web standard requirements include at least one of:

restrictions on allowable web formatting, restrictions on allowable hypertext markup tags, and requirements for predetermined web controls to include voice command information configured to allow users to select the web controls by voice command.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the controller is further programmed to:

send a web request for the web content to a web server;

receive a redirect from the web server to a vehicle-specific version of the web content; and

retrieve the vehicle-specific version of the web content as the web content.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein controller is further programmed to provide user-agent information in a header of the web request indicating that the web content is for display by the controller to the in-vehicle display.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the redirect is to a vehicle sub-domain.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the vehicle sub-domain is one or more of:

c, car, v, vehicle, or ivi.

16. The system of claim 8, wherein the cascading style sheet specifies at least two of:

text size, button size, page background, element color information, total number of elements of web content, and position of elements of web content.

17. The system of claim 8, wherein the cascading style sheet specifies vehicle manufacturer branding information to be applied to the web content.

18. A computer-implemented method comprising:

extracting voice commands from retrieved web content, the web content including hypertext markup tags and the voice commands defined for voice control of the hypertext markup tags;

providing the web content to an in-vehicle display formatted according to a cascading style sheet; and

updating an in-vehicle voice command interface according to the voice commands.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

updating the cascading style sheet based on vehicle requirements including at least two of color, size, or location; and

applying the cascading style sheet as updated to the web content to cause the web content to be configured in conformance with the vehicle requirements.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising validating the web content as being in compliance with in-vehicle web standard requirements.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the in-vehicle web standard requirements include at least one of:

restrictions on allowable web formatting, restrictions on allowable hypertext markup tags, and requirements for predetermined web controls to include voice command information configured to allow users to select the web controls by voice command.

22. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

requesting the web content from a web server,

receiving a redirect from the web server to a vehicle-specific version of the web content, and

retrieving the vehicle-specific version of the web content.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising providing user-agent information in a header of the request indicating that request is for display to the in-vehicle display.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the redirect is to a vehicle sub-domain.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the vehicle sub-domain is one or more of:

c, car, v, vehicle, or ivi.

26. The method of claim 18, wherein the cascading style sheet specifies at least two of:

text size, button size, page background, element color information, manufacturer branding information, total number of elements, and position of elements.