METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LAUNCHING AN APPLICATION

• US 20150341744A1
• Filed: 11/18/2014
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: NELSON, Thomas, HATTON, David Anthony, HASS, William Donald, NASRALLAH, Hussein F.
• Granted Patent: US 9,369,830 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• 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 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A mobile device comprising at least one controller in communication with one or more transceivers. The one or more transceivers are capable of communication with a vehicle computing system. The at least one controller configured to establish a communication link with the vehicle computing system. The controller further configured to receive a signal having an unique user identification from the vehicle computing system. The controller further configured to search for a mobile application based on the signal and enable the mobile application that matches the unique user identifier. The controller further configured to launch the mobile application.

Claims

1. A nomadic device comprising:

at least one controller communicating with a transceiver, the at least one controller configured to;

receive a wireless signal from a vehicle computer, the signal including an application identifier;

determine an application corresponding to the application identifier; and

launch the application corresponding to the application identifier.

2. The nomadic device of claim 1, wherein the wireless signal is a BLUETOOTH signal.

3. The nomadic device of claim 2, wherein the BLUETOOTH signal is a BLUETOOTH beacon device.

4. The nomadic device of claim 3, wherein the BLUETOOTH beacon device is an iBeacon.

5. The nomadic device of claim 1, wherein the application identifier is a unique user identifier.

6. The nomadic device of claim 5, wherein the unique user identifier is an a sixty four hexadecimal character identifier.

7. The nomadic device of claim 1, wherein the application is configured to communicate with the vehicle computing system via an application programming interface.

8. A computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that is programmed for launching an application based on a wireless signal from a vehicle computing system, the computer-program product comprising instructions for:

receiving a wireless signal from a Bluetooth device included with a vehicle, the signal including an application identifier;

determining an application corresponding to the application identifier; and

launching the application corresponding to the application identifier.

9. The computer-program product of claim 8, wherein the application corresponding to the application identifier is launched from at least one of a suspended state, background state, and a terminated state.

10. The computer-program product of claim 8, wherein the BLUETOOTH device is an iBeacon.

11. The computer-program product of claim 8, wherein the application identifier is a unique user identifier.

12. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein the unique user identifier is an a sixty four hexadecimal character identifier.

13. The computer-program product of claim 8, wherein the application is configured to communicate with the vehicle computing system via an application programming interface.

14. An application launch method comprising:

receiving a Bluetooth wireless signal from a vehicle computer, the signal including an application identifier;

determining an application corresponding to the application identifier;

launching the application at a controller corresponding to the application identifier.

15. The application launch method of claim 14, further comprising an iBeacon device communicating the vehicle computer for generating the BLUETOOTH wireless signal.

16. The application launch method of claim 14, wherein the application identifier is a unique user identifier.

17. The application launch method of claim 16, wherein the unique user identifier is an a sixty four hexadecimal character identifier.

18. The application launch method of claim 14, wherein the application corresponding to the application identifier is launched from at least one of a suspended state, background state, and a terminated state.

19. The application launch method of claim 14, wherein the application is configured to communicate with a vehicle computer via an application programming interface.

20. The application launch method of claim 14, further comprising outputting data received from the launched application to an output device in communication with the controller.