Electronic glovebox for a vehicle
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorsDavid S. Cheney, Steven P. Schwinke, Hassan A. Elnajjar
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Abstract
A method and a system for providing access to a cloud computer from a vehicle. The method carried out by the system includes providing at least one client (e.g., an e-glovebox device). The method also includes configuring a cloud server to allow access to one or more clients and accessing the cloud server using the e-glovebox. The access may include uploading one or more data members to the cloud server. The access may also include downloading one or more data members from the cloud server.
Claims19
A method of accessing a data member located in a cloud server from a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- providing at least one client, wherein a first client is an e-glovebox device in a first vehicle;
- configuring a cloud server to allow the at least one client access thereto;
- and
- accessing the cloud server using the e-glovebox device, wherein the access comprises either:
- uploading one or more data members to the cloud server, wherein the one or more data members are accessible to the at least one client for download, or
- downloading one or more data members from the cloud server, wherein the one or more data members have been uploaded by the first client or by a second client, wherein the one or more data members are accessible to the at least one client.
A method of cloud computing from a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- uploading a data member from a second client to a cloud server;
- storing the data member at the cloud server;
- and
- downloading the data member by a first client in a first vehicle from the cloud server, wherein at least one of the clients is an e-glovebox device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.