| 摘要 |
The present disclosure is directed to an application store on board a vehicle. The application store contains, in one configuration, a plurality of applications for installation on an on board computer of the vehicle, with the applications provided to the vehicle operator being provided to the operator being based on predetermined types of information related to the vehicle, its state, operation, and/or configuration, vehicle location, vehicle type, make, model, and/or year of manufacture, and/or occupant(s) and/or occupant(s) of other vehicles. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a microprocessor executable application manager, vehicle configuration data, wherein the vehicle configuration data is stored locally in a tangible and non-transitory computer readable memory of a vehicle and wherein the vehicle configuration data is updated dynamically to reflect a change in the vehicle configuration data, wherein the vehicle configuration data relates to one or more of an on board hardware and/or software resource, module, algorithm, and/or component and/or a setting and/or property thereof; determining, by the application manager, a requirement of a selected application in an application store, wherein the requirement relates to one or more of a microprocessor, central processing unit, a service quality measure of network performance, available, unused, unavailable, and/or in use memory capacity, and operating system, the application store comprising information relating to a plurality of applications available for installation on a vehicle computer, the plurality of applications comprising a plurality of an application related to at least one of a handicap and accessibility graphical user interfaces, an email client, a web browser, a communications application, a game, an entertainment application, a satellite positioning system receiver application, an automotive navigation application or a device, a map application, a medical information application, an emergency service application, a noise suppression application, a news-related application, a vehicle manual related application, a weather information-related application, a biometric application, a travel application, a speech recognition application, an application to read to an operator of the vehicle Really Simple Syndication (“RSS”) feeds, Twitter messages, email messages, and/or instant messages, a social networking application, a streaming media application, and a utility application; and comparing, by the application manager, the vehicle configuration data with the requirement of the selected application to determine at least one of whether the selected application can be installed currently in an electronic readable memory of the vehicle computer and/or whether the selected application can be executed currently by the vehicle computer. |
