ON BOARD VEHICLE NETWORKING MODULE

• US 20130204466A1
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AutoConnect Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: Flextronics America LLC (Flextronics International Limited)
• Inventors: Ricci, Christopher P.
• Granted Patent: US 9,116,786 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/00 Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0781 Error filtering or prioritizing based on a policy defined by the user or on a policy defined by a hardware/software module, e.g. according to a severity level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0784 Routing of error reports, e.g. with a specific transmission path or data flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2025 using centralised failover control functionality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2035 without idle spare hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2038 with a single idle spare processing component
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/14 Handling requests for interconnection or transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/805 Real-time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40215 Controller Area Network CAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40273 the transportation system being a vehicle

Abstract

The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable remote control module operable to receive, via a remote node, a command from a vehicle owner to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of a selected vehicle component and, when the vehicle owner is authenticated successfully by the remote control module, to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of the selected vehicle component.

Claims

1. A vehicle, comprising:

a microprocessor executable remote control module operable to receive, via a remote node, a command from a vehicle owner to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of a selected vehicle component and, when the vehicle owner is authenticated successfully by the remote control module, to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of the selected vehicle component.

2. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the selected vehicle component is an on board input/output system and wherein the configuration and/or alteration is one or more of moving a graphical object to another location, removing a graphical object from the input/output system, adding a graphical object to the input/output system, adding wall paper to the input/output system, and altering a setting of the input/output system.

3. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the selected vehicle component is a programmable hard button and wherein the configuration and/or alteration is to assign, to the hard button, a different function.

4. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the command is to download content from the Internet and save the downloaded content in on board memory of the vehicle.

5. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the command is to change a vehicle performance mode from a first performance configuration to a second performance configuration and/or alter a setting of a vehicle component associated with a power unit and/or drive train of the vehicle.

6. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the command is to determine a state of the selected vehicle component.

7. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein, when a vehicle occupant is identified, the remote control module automatically configures the selected vehicle component as desired by the identified occupant.

8. A method, comprising:

a microprocessor executable remote control module receiving, via a remote node, a command from a vehicle owner to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of a selected vehicle component, and

the remote control module, when the vehicle owner is authenticated successfully, configuring and/or altering and/or determining a state of the selected vehicle component.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the selected vehicle component is an on board input/output system and wherein the configuration and/or alteration is one or more of moving a graphical object to another location, removing a graphical object from the input/output system, adding a graphical object to the input/output system, adding wall paper to the input/output system, and altering a setting of the input/output system.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the selected vehicle component is a programmable hard button and wherein the configuration and/or alteration is to assign, to the hard button, a different function.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the command is to download content from the Internet and save the downloaded content in on board memory of the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the command is to change a vehicle performance mode from a first performance configuration to a second performance configuration and/or alter a setting of a vehicle component associated with a power unit and/or drive train of the vehicle.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the command is to determine a state of the selected vehicle component.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein, when a vehicle occupant is identified, the remote control module automatically configures the selected vehicle component as desired by the identified occupant.

15. A non-transient, tangible computer readable medium comprising a microprocessor executable remote control module on board a selected vehicle that, when executed, receives, via a remote node, a command from a vehicle owner to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of a selected vehicle component and, when the vehicle owner is authenticated successfully, configuring and/or altering and/or determining a state of the selected vehicle component.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the selected vehicle component is an on board input/output system and wherein the configuration and/or alteration is one or more of moving a graphical object to another location, removing a graphical object from the input/output system, adding a graphical object to the input/output system, adding wall paper to the input/output system, and altering a setting of the input/output system.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the selected vehicle component is a programmable hard button and wherein the configuration and/or alteration is to assign, to the hard button, a different function.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the command is to download content from the Internet and save the downloaded content in on board memory of the vehicle.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the command is to change a vehicle performance mode from a first performance configuration to a second performance configuration and/or alter a setting of a vehicle component associated with a power unit and/or drive train of the vehicle.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the command is to determine a state of the selected vehicle component.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein, when a vehicle occupant is identified, the remote control module automatically configures the selected vehicle component as desired by the identified occupant.