# US 10,120,760 B2 · Vehicle infotainment system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,120,760 B2 - Document ID: US10120760B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/326,385 - Filed: 2015-07-14 - Published: 2017-07-20 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-07-17 - Assignees: Continental Automotive GmbH - Applicants: Continental Automotive GmbH - Inventors: Holger Braun; Wolfgang Weber - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10120760B2 ## CPC - G06F 11/1438: {Restarting or rejuvenating} - B60L 1/00: Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles (circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00) - B60R 16/023: for transmission of signals between vehicle parts or subsystems - B60R 16/03: for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems {or for (circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00)} - B60R 16/033: characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries (for propulsion puposes B60K1/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06; testing of charge state G01R31/36) - G06F 1/3206: Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality - G06F 9/4418: {Suspend and resume; Hibernate and awake} - G06F 15/7807: {System on chip, i.e. computer system on a single chip; System in package, i.e. computer system on one or more chips in a single package} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract The invention relates to a vehicle infotainment system, comprising a system-on-chip with a restart monitoring device. In this arrangement, the restart monitoring device is designed to determine a number of restarts of the system-on-chip and to deactivate the system-on-chip or to switch it in an idle mode when the number of restarts of the system-on-chip exceeds a predetermined threshold value. In this manner, the restart monitoring device can prevent a discharge of the battery of the vehicle by a faulty loop of restarts. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicle infotainment system having: a single-chip system having a restart monitoring device; wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to determine a number of restarts by the single-chip system; and wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to deactivate the single-chip system or to transfer it to an idle mode when the number of restarts by the single-chip system exceeds a prescribed threshold value; the single-chip system further having: a plurality of computer cores having a first portion of the computer cores and a second portion of the computer cores; wherein the plurality of computer cores are operable by means of a power supply; wherein the second portion of the computer cores is configured to identify a cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores and, on identification of a cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores, to disconnect the power supply for the first portion of the computer cores. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the number of restarts is a number of restarts per unit time. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the number of restarts is an absolute number; and wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to reset the number of restarts when the single-chip system is successfully started up. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to limit a wakeup function of the single-chip system when the number of restarts exceeds the prescribed threshold value. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 4, the single-chip system having: an interface for receiving a wakeup signal; wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to prevent the single-chip system from waking up when a wakeup signal is received via the interface when the number of restarts exceeds the prescribed threshold value. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 5, the single-chip system further having: a startup memory unit that stores a program code executed for a startup process of the single-chip system; a semipermanent memory unit; wherein the restart monitoring device is implemented in the startup memory unit; wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to store the determined number of restarts in the semipermanent memory unit; a plurality of computer cores having a first portion of the computer cores and a second portion of the computer cores; wherein the plurality of computer cores are operable by means of a power supply; and wherein the second portion of the computer cores is configured to identify a cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores and, on identification of a cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores, to disconnect the power supply for the first portion of the computer cores. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 6, the single-chip system further having: a memory unit embodied as a NAND memory. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the number of restarts is a number of restarts per unit time. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the number of restarts is an absolute number; and wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to reset the number of restarts when the single-chip system is successfully started up. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 1, the single-chip system further having: a startup memory unit that stores a program code executed for a startup process of the single-chip system; a semipermanent memory unit; wherein the restart monitoring device is implemented in the startup memory unit; and wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to store the determined number of restarts in the semipermanent memory unit. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The vehicle infotainment system as claimed in claim 1, the single-chip system further having: a memory unit embodied as a NAND memory. ### Claim 12 A motor vehicle having a vehicle infotainment system, the vehicle infotainment system comprising: a single-chip system having a restart monitoring device; wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to determine a number of restarts by the single-chip system; and wherein the restart monitoring device is configured to deactivate the single-chip system or to transfer it to an idle mode when the number of restarts by the single-chip system exceeds a prescribed threshold value; the single-chip system further having: a plurality of computer cores having a first portion of the computer cores and a second portion of the computer cores; wherein the plurality of computer cores are operable by means of a power supply; wherein the second portion of the computer cores is configured to identify a cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores and, on identification of a cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores, to disconnect the power supply for the first portion of the computer cores. ### Claim 13 A method for preventing battery discharge by a vehicle infotainment system having a single-chip system having a plurality of computer cores having a first portion of the computer cores and a second portion of the computer cores, wherein the plurality of computer cores are operable by means of a power supply, the method involving: determination of a number of restarts by the single-chip system by a restart monitoring device of the single-chip system; and deactivation, or transfer to an idle mode, of the single-chip system by the restart monitoring device when the determined number of restarts exceeds a prescribed threshold value; and identification, by the second portion of the computer cores, of a cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores and, on identification of the cyclic malfunction in the first portion of the computer cores, disconnection of the power supply for the first portion of the computer cores.