Method and apparatus for providing linking service between vehicle AVN system and smartphone based on virtualization framework

• US 9,866,890 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2016
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Lee, Seung Cheol
• Primary Examiner(s): Marandi, James R
• Application Number:
  US14/996,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20170134788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45579 I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45541 Bare-metal, i.e. hypervisor runs directly on hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45545 Guest-host, i.e. hypervisor is an application program itself, e.g. VirtualBox
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4437 Implementing a Virtual Machine [VM] virtual machines in general G06F9/45533
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for providing a linking service between a vehicle AVN system and a smartphone based on a virtualization framework. An apparatus for providing a linking service between a vehicle audio video navigation (AVN) system and a smartphone, includes a host operating system for managing an operation and a state of a host process and AVN application, and managing hardware resources included in the apparatus for the host process and AVN application, a guest operating system for managing an operation and a state of a guest process/the smartphone linkage application, and a hypervisor for emulating the hardware resources according to a control signal of the host operating system to allocate a virtualized hardware resource to the guest operating system. Therefore, the present disclosure has an advantage of continuously providing an existing AVN function irrespective of an error of a function of linking a vehicle AVN system and a smartphone.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing a linking service between a vehicle audio video navigation (AVN) system and a smartphone, comprising:

a host operating system configured to manage an operation and a state of a host process, manage an operation and a state of an AVN application, and manage hardware resources included in the apparatus for implementing the host process and the AVN application;

a guest operating system configured to manage an operation and a state of a guest process, manage an operation and a state of a smartphone linkage application, the smartphone linkage application configured to provide a communication link between the guest operating system and the smartphone; and

a hypervisor configured to;

receive a control signal from the host operating system;

selectively emulate a non-security hardware resource from the hardware resources into a virtualized hardware resource based on the control signal, wherein the non-security hardware resource is predetermined by a vehicle security policy to include at least one of a display resource or an audio resource;

selectively restrict emulating a security hardware resource from the hardware resources into the virtualized hardware resource based on the vehicle security policy, wherein the security hardware resource includes at least a vehicle controller area network (CAN) according to the vehicle security policy; and

allocate the virtualized hardware resource to the guest operating system to be involved in the smartphone linkage application providing the communication link between the guest operating system and the smartphone.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the virtualized hardware resource further includes at least one of a an input resource, a universal serial bus (USB) resource, or a Wi-Fi resource.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a guest operating system monitoring module included in the host operating system, the guest operating system monitoring module configured to monitor an operation state of the guest operating system;

and

wherein the hypervisor is configured to transmit a predetermined error notification message to the guest operating system monitoring module through the host operating system when an error or a failure is detected from the guest operating system.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the guest operating system monitoring module is configured to transmit a predetermined control signal to the hypervisor through the host operating system when the error notification message is received;

and

wherein the hypervisor is configured to reboot the guest operating system based on the predetermined control signal.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the guest operating system is configured to automatically perform a predetermined recovery procedure for at least one of the guest process or the smartphone linkage application when an error is detected from the operation of at least one of the guest process or the smartphone linkage application,

wherein the guest operating system is configured to generate a predetermined error notification message and transmit the generated message to the host operating system through the hypervisor when the recovery procedure is not normally completed.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the guest operating system is rebooted by transmitting a predetermined control signal to the hypervisor when the host operating system receives the error notification message.

7. A method of providing a linking service between a vehicle AVN system and a smartphone through a virtualization framework in the vehicle AVN system, the vehicle AVN system including a host operating system and a guest operating system separated from each other, the method comprising:

receiving, by a hypervisor, a predetermined control signal from the host operating system when the vehicle AVN system is driven;

selectively virtualizing a non-security hardware resource from the hardware resources by emulating the non-security hardware resource into a virtualized hardware resource, wherein the non-security hardware resource is predetermined by a vehicle security policy to include at least one of a display resource or an audio resource;

selectively restricting virtualizing a security hardware resource from the hardware resources into the virtualized hardware resource based on the vehicle security policy, wherein the security hardware resource includes at least a vehicle controller area network (CAN) according to the vehicle security policy;

allocating the virtualized hardware resource to the guest operating system to be involved in a smartphone linkage application providing a communication link between the guest operating system and the smartphone, wherein the smartphone linkage application is included in the guest operating system;

monitoring, by the guest operation system, an operation state of a guest process and the smartphone linkage application; and

recovering at least one of the guest process or the smartphone linkage application from an error when the error is detected from the operation state of the guest process and the smartphone linkage application, wherein at least one of the guest process or the smartphone linkage application corresponds to the error,

wherein the guest operating system transmits a predetermined error notification message to the host operating system through the hypervisor when the detected error is not recovered.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the virtualized hardware resource includes at least one of an input resource, a universal serial bus (USB) resource, and a Wi-Fi resource.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising

transmitting, by the hypervisor, a predetermined error notification message to a guest operating system monitoring module through the host operating system when an error or a failure is detected from the guest operating system;

and

wherein the guest operating system monitoring module is included in the host operating system to monitor an operation state of the guest operating system.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

transmitting a predetermined control signal to the hypervisor through the host operating system when the error notification message is received by the guest operating system monitoring module; and

rebooting the guest operating system by the hypervisor based on the predetermined control signal.

11. A computer-readable non-transitory recoding medium having stored thereon a computer program providing a linking service between a vehicle AVN system and a smartphone through a virtualization framework in the vehicle AVN system, the computer program being executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform a method comprising:

receiving, by a hypervisor, a predetermined control signal from the host operating system when the vehicle AVN system is driven;

selectively virtualizing a non-security hardware resource from the hardware resources by emulating the non-security hardware resource into a virtualized hardware resource, wherein the non-security hardware resource is predetermined by a vehicle security policy to include at least one of a display resource or an audio resource;

selectively restricting virtualizing a security hardware resource from the hardware resources into the virtualized hardware resource based on the vehicle security policy, wherein the security hardware resource includes at least a vehicle controller area network (CAN) according to the vehicle security policy;

allocating the virtualized hardware resource to the guest operating system to be involved in a smartphone linkage application providing a communication link between the guest operating system and the smartphone, wherein the smartphone linkage application is included in the guest operating system;

monitoring, by the guest operation system, an operation state of a guest process and the smartphone linkage application; and

recovering at least one of the guest process or the smartphone linkage application from an error when the error is detected from the operation state of the guest process and the smartphone linkage application, wherein at least one of the guest process or the smartphone linkage application corresponds to the error,

wherein the guest operating system transmits a predetermined error notification message to the host operating system through the hypervisor when the detected error is not recovered.

12. The medium according to claim 11, wherein the virtualized hardware resource includes at least one of an input resource, a universal serial bus (USB) resource, and a Wi-Fi resource.