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System for controlling a vehicle computer using a mobile telephone

  • US 9,736,679 B2
  • Filed: 09/18/2013
  • Issued: 08/15/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for controlling a vehicle computer (12) of a vehicle (14) using a mobile telephone (16), the vehicle computer (12) having a vehicle display (18) and a vehicle input device (20), and the mobile telephone (16) having a mobile telephone display (26) and a mobile telephone input device (28), the method comprising:

  • executing an application (46) on the mobile telephone (16);

    assembling user elements by the application (46) for a graphical user interface of the application (46);

    inputting, by a user, a control command for the vehicle (14) into the application (46) with the mobile telephone input device (28);

    executing, by the application (46), a software library (40) usable by a plurality of applications;

    connecting a software interface (42), for the software library (40), in the vehicle computer (12) to the mobile telephone (16) via a local network connection (30);

    sending the control command to the software interface (42);

    executing the control command by the vehicle computer (12);

    retrieving design data from the vehicle computer (12) for the graphic representation of the user elements used by the mobile telephone application (46) by the software library (40) via the local network connection (30); and

    generating a graphical user interface based on the design data supplied by the vehicle computer by the application (46).

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