Systems and Methods for Providing Telematic Services to Vehicles

• US 20120253551A1
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc. (Liberty Media Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc. (Liberty Media Corporation)
• Inventors: Halimi, Sammy, Copland, Craig George Kenneth, Deeb, Steven, Bonasera, James, Yanamula, Bharath, Sanker, Karuthapandian R.
• Application Number:
  US13/524,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20120253551A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/91 Mobile communication networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/85
• 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 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72424 with manual activation of emergency-service functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/15 Information service where the information is dependent on the location of the subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42357 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

A method for providing abstraction in a telematics system provides a telematics system with components, the components including a translator that converts messages received from a vehicle into a canonical form and an adapter that converts data received from an external source into a canonical equivalent. The translator interprets the received messages and routes the received messages to a correct component of the telematics system. The adapter is operable to allow a content services subsystem to deliver the received data.

Claims

1. A method for providing abstraction in a telematics system, comprising:

providing a telematics system with components, the components including;

a translator that converts messages received from a vehicle into a canonical form, the translator;

interpreting the received messages; and

routing the received messages to a correct component of the telematics system; and

an adapter that converts data received from an external source into a canonical equivalent, the adapter being operable to allow a content services subsystem to deliver the received data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining an origin of the messages or the data is unnecessary in order for at least one of the translator and the adapter to use the messages or the data.

3. The method of claim 1, which further comprises exchanging messages by the components represented in canonical form.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the received data comprises at least one of points of interest, contacts, vehicle data, and other data stored outside of the telematics system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the components of the telematics system are modular and discrete.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein code for the components of the telematics system is free of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specific details.

7. The method of claim 5, which further comprises:

providing the components as discrete components; and

adding additional instances of at least one of the discrete components to increase capacity.

8. The method of claim 1, which further comprises implementing the telematics system as a stand-alone system.

9. The method of claim 1, which further comprises implementing the telematics system as an integrated platform operable to service many customers.

10. The method of claim 1, which further comprises having the telematics system use code frameworks to standardize a behavior of common parts of the telematics system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the code frameworks are operable to send and receive the data.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the code frameworks are operable to audit operations.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the code frameworks are operable to read and write configuration data.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the code frameworks are operable to handle error conditions.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the code frameworks are operable to route service requests.

16. The method of claim 1, which further comprises providing the telematics system with a set of routing rules that are consulted for each instance of a service request.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the telematics system is modular; and

the components are discrete components.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the components are implemented as a stand-alone telematics system.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the components are implemented as an integrated telematics platform operable to service many customers.

17. A telematics system, comprising:

components including;

a translator operable to convert messages received from a vehicle into a canonical form, to interpret the received messages, and to route the received messages to a correct one of the components; and

an adapter operable to convert data received from an external source into a canonical equivalent and to permit delivery the received data by a content services subsystem.