Application Assurance for Open Platform In-Vehicle Infotainment System

A method of providing application assurance for an open platform in-vehicle infotainment system included in a vehicle, the method comprising:

• executing, by a processor of the open platform in-vehicle infotainment system, an untrusted application so that the untrusted application runs on the open platform in-vehicle infotainment system;
• analyzing a specification for an application programming interface of the open platform in-vehicle infotainment system to determine desired behavior of the untrusted application that complies with the specification;
• retrieving geographic data describing a geographic location of the vehicle;
• determining one or more safety guidelines based on the geographic location of the vehicle;
• generating the one or more runtime rules which are configured so that compliance with the one or more runtime rules corresponds to compliance with (1) the specification and (2) the one or more safety guidelines;
• generating a monitor module based on the one or more runtime rules;
• and
• instrumenting the untrusted application so that untrusted application includes the monitor module, wherein the monitor module, responsive to the untrusted application being executed and running on the open platform in-vehicle infotainment system, causes the processor to observe, based on the one or more runtime rules, behavior of the untrusted application to determine whether the observed behavior of the untrusted application is consistent with the desired behavior of the untrusted application so that the observed behavior complies with one or more runtime rules.

A tangible memory of open platform in-vehicle infotainment system included in a vehicle, the tangible memory comprising computer code which, when executed by a processor of the vehicle, causes the processor to perform steps comprising:

• executing an untrusted application so that the untrusted application runs on the open platform in-vehicle infotainment system;
• analyzing a specification for an application programming interface of the open platform in-vehicle infotainment system to determine desired behavior of the untrusted application that complies with the specification;
• retrieving geographic data describing a geographic location of the vehicle;
• determining one or more safety guidelines based on the geographic location of the vehicle;
• generating the one or more runtime rules which are configured so that compliance with the one or more runtime rules corresponds to compliance with (1) the specification and (2) the one or more safety guidelines;
• generating a monitor module based on the one or more runtime rules;
• and
• instrumenting the untrusted application so that untrusted application includes the monitor module, wherein the monitor module, responsive to the untrusted application being executed and running on the open platform in-vehicle infotainment system, causes the processor to observe, based on the one or more runtime rules, behavior of the untrusted application to determine whether the observed behavior of the untrusted application is consistent with the desired behavior of the untrusted application so that the observed behavior complies with one or more runtime rules.