Methods and systems to customize a vehicle computing system based on an electronic calendar

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11044283-B2
Application number	US-201514820022-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 6, 2015
Priority date	Aug 6, 2015
Publication date	Jun 22, 2021
Grant date	Jun 22, 2021

Abstract

A vehicle system includes a processor programmed to output a shared screen for a meeting at a vehicle display configured to output infotainment settings. The processor is in communication with the vehicle display and a nomadic device. The processor is programmed to parse a calendar associated with the nomadic device for a meeting within a predefined or selected time window or period. The processor is further programmed to identify login information for the meeting, establish a communication link for the meeting based on the identified login information, and output a shared screen for the meeting at the display based on the vehicle being in a predefined state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle system comprising:
a vehicle display; and
a processor in communication with the display and a nomadic device and programmed to,
parse a calendar associated with the nomadic device for a meeting starting within a time window;
identify login information from the calendar for the meeting; and
in response to the vehicle being in a predefined state, output at the display a shared screen for the meeting based on the login information.

2. The vehicle system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to output one or more meeting options based on the login information to the display.

3. The vehicle system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more meeting options are at least one of a call-in to meeting selection, a start shared screen conference selection, a delay meeting reminder selection, and a dismiss meeting selection.

4. The vehicle system of claim 3 , wherein the processor is further programmed to, in response to received input for the start shared screen conference selection, output the shared screen at the display based on the predefined state of the vehicle.

5. The vehicle system of claim 3 , wherein the delay meeting reminder selection removes the one or more meeting options from the display for a predefined amount of time.

6. The vehicle system of claim 5 , wherein the predefined state is at least one of a park state for a transmission and a wheel speed value approximately equal to zero.

7. The vehicle system of claim 1 , wherein the time window corresponds to a set amount of time.

8. The vehicle system of claim 1 , wherein the time window corresponds to a moving window based on a predetermined time from a current time.

9. The vehicle system of claim 1 , wherein the display is a human machine interface display for an infotainment system.

10. The vehicle system of claim 1 , wherein the login information includes at least one of a phone number, access code, hyperlink, and attendee ID.

11. The vehicle system of claim 10 , wherein the hyperlink enables a communication link between a remote computer controlled by a meeting attendee and the processor.

12. The vehicle system of claim 11 , wherein the shared screen provides content received from the remote computer.

13. The vehicle system of claim 1 , wherein the calendar is stored at the nomadic device or a server.

14. A non-transitory computer-program product having stored instructions for programming a vehicle processor, comprising instructions for:
parsing a linked nomadic device calendar for a meeting starting within a selected time period;
identifying login information from the linked nomadic device for the meeting;
establishing a communication link for the meeting based on the identified login information; and
in response to a predefined vehicle state, outputting a shared screen for the meeting at a display.

15. The computer-program product of claim 14 , further comprising instructions for:
establishing communication with a remote server; and
retrieving the calendar from the remote server.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Nelson Thomas
• Nasrallah Hussein F
• Apczynski Thomas E
• Hatton David Anthony

Classifications

• H04M2203/2072

  Schedules, e.g. personal calendars · CPC title

• H04M3/567

  Multimedia conference systems · CPC title

• H04N7/15

  Conference systems · CPC title

• H04N7/142

  Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display · CPC title

• H04N7/147

  Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q) · CPC title