Method and apparatus for handling application triggering events

• US 9,854,061 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2013
• Issued: 12/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: MacNeille, Perry Robinson, Liu, Yimin, Gusikhin, Oleg Yurievitch, Pierucci, Joe Phillip
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US14/054,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20150106474A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,532 Days
• Field of Search: 709217, 709219, 455418, 4555691, 455 411, 4554562, 701 314, 701 2, 701123, 715760
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• 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 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

A system comprises a processor configured to subscribe to a broadcast of vehicle-related state changes. The processor is also configured to detect at least one vehicle-related state change in the broadcast that triggers an application launch and launch an application corresponding to the detected vehicle related state change.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor configured to;

subscribe to a broadcast of vehicle-related state changes through a content delivery network;

detect a vehicle-related state change in the broadcast that triggers an application launch;

determine whether a mobile device containing the processor is located within a vehicle or external to a vehicle;

wherein the launch comprises launching a version of the application based on the determination;

request a predetermined amount of application-utilizable data from a remote source such that the application can execute using the data if a connection to the remote source is lost;

download the requested data; and

delay an application launch until the predetermined amount of data has been downloaded.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the state change includes a vehicle location.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the state change includes a vehicle service requirement.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the state change includes a payment loan due date arrival.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to launch the application to be handled by a wirelessly connected vehicle computing system.

6. A computer-implemented method comprising:

subscribing to a broadcast of vehicle-related state changes through a content delivery network;

detecting at least one vehicle-related state change in the broadcast that triggers an application launch;

determining whether a mobile device containing a processor is located within a vehicle or external to a vehicle;

wherein the launch comprises launching a version of the application based on the determination;

requesting a predetermined amount of application-utilizable data from a remote source such that the application can execute using the data if a connection to the remote source is lost;

downloading the requested data; and

delaying an application launch until the predetermined amount of data has been downloaded.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the state change includes a vehicle location.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the state change includes a vehicle service requirement.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the state change includes a payment loan due date arrival.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising launching the application to be handled by a wirelessly connected vehicle computing system.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

subscribing to a broadcast of vehicle-related state changes through a content delivery network;

detecting at least one vehicle-related state change in the broadcast that triggers an application launch;

determining whether a mobile device containing the processor is located within a vehicle or external to a vehicle;

wherein the launch comprises launching a version of the application based on the determination;

requesting a predetermined amount of application-utilizable data from a remote source such that the application can execute using the data if a connection to the remote source is lost;

downloading the requested data; and

delaying an application launch until the predetermined amount of data has been downloaded.

12. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the state change includes a vehicle location.

13. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the state change includes a vehicle service requirement.

14. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the state change includes a payment loan due date arrival.