US 2021/0279024 A1 · Generating Navigation User Interfaces for Third-Party Applications

Abstract

In some implementations, a mobile device can generate graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on behalf of third-party applications for presentation by vehicle infotainment systems. The mobile device can obtain configuration information for the vehicle system. The mobile device (e.g., operating system) can be configured with various GUI templates that define the layout of various user input controls. The third-party application can provide a template identifier and map data to the operating system. The mobile device can generate a GUI for the third-party application specifically for display by the vehicle system based on the identified template, the map data, and the configuration information for the vehicle system. The mobile device can then send the generated GUI to the vehicle system and the vehicle system can present the GUI on a display of the vehicle system.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a graphical user interface (GUI) generator on a mobile device from a navigation application of the mobile device, a request to present a particular GUI on a display screen of a vehicle system;
identifying, by the vehicle GUI generator, a GUI template that corresponds to the particular GUI;
generating the particular GUI based on the identified GUI template;
determining, by the vehicle GUI generator, a safe area of the particular GUI that is available to the navigation application for presenting map features;
providing, by the vehicle GUI generator to the navigation application, information defining the safe area within the particular GUI to the navigation application;
receiving data for one or more map features from the navigation application for the particular GUI;
rendering the one or more map features in the safe area of the particular GUI;
and
causing the vehicle system to present the particular GUI including the one or more map features in the safe area.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a graphical user interface (GUI) generator on a mobile device from a navigation application of the mobile device, a request to present a particular GUI on a display screen of a vehicle system;
identifying, by the vehicle GUI generator, a GUI template that corresponds to the particular GUI;
generating the particular GUI based on the identified GUI template;
determining, by the vehicle GUI generator, a safe area of the particular GUI that is available to the navigation application for presenting map features;
providing, by the vehicle GUI generator to the navigation application, information defining the safe area within the particular GUI to the navigation application;
receiving data for one or more map features from the navigation application for the particular GUI;
rendering the one or more map features in the safe area of the particular GUI;
and
causing the vehicle system to present the particular GUI including the one or more map features in the safe area.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a graphical user interface (GUI) generator on a mobile device from a navigation application of the mobile device, a request to present a particular GUI on a display screen of a vehicle system;
identifying, by the vehicle GUI generator, a GUI template that corresponds to the particular GUI;
generating the particular GUI based on the identified GUI template;
determining, by the vehicle GUI generator, a safe area of the particular GUI that is available to the navigation application for presenting map features;
providing, by the vehicle GUI generator to the navigation application, information defining the safe area within the particular GUI to the navigation application;
receiving data for one or more map features from the navigation application for the particular GUI;
rendering the one or more map features in the safe area of the particular GUI;
and
causing the vehicle system to present the particular GUI including the one or more map features in the safe area.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/319,897Filed 13 May 2021

Priority

6 May 2018

Published

9 Sep 2021

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

G06F 3/14
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: digital…
G06F 3/0481
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a…
G06F 3/04817
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…

Family

Application62/667,576Us provisional application · filed 6 May 2018

Application16/373,446Continuation · filed 2 Apr 2019

Application17/319,897Continuation

US 11,042,340 B2Related patent

US 2019/0339918 A1Published application

US 2021/0279024 A1This patent

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Generating Navigation User Interfaces for Third-Party Applications

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