Vehicle computer system with wireless internet connectivity
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRichard D. Beckert, Mark M. Moeller, William S. Wong
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Abstract
A vehicle computer system has a housing sized to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard or other appropriate location. A computer is mounted within the housing and executes an open platform, multi-tasking operating system. The computer runs multiple applications on the operating system, including both vehicle-related applications (e.g., vehicle security application, vehicle diagnostics application, communications application, etc.) and non-vehicle-related applications (e.g., entertainment application, word processing, etc.). The computer system has an Internet wireless link to provide access to the Internet. One or more of the applications may utilize the link to access content on the Internet.
Claims26
A vehicle computer system comprising:
- a housing of a size suitable to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard;
- a computer mounted within the housing;
- an open platform operating system executing on the computer;
- and
- an Internet wireless link to provide access to the Internet.
A computer network system for an automobile, comprising:
- a network;
- at least one client computing device connected to the network;
- a vehicle computer system connected to the network to serve content to the client computing device, the vehicle computer system comprising:
- a housing of a size suitable to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard;
- a computer mounted within the housing;
- an open platform operating system executing on the computer;
- and
- an Internet wireless link to provide access to the Internet.
A vehicle computer system comprising:
- a support module having a bus;
- a computer module connected to the bus, the computer module having a processor;
- multiple applications stored on the computer module and executed by the processor;
- and
- an Internet wireless link connected to the support module to provide access for the computer module to the Internet.
A computer network system for an automobile, comprising:
- a network;
- at least one client computing device connected to the network;
- a vehicle computer system connected to the network to serve content to the client computing device, the vehicle computer system comprising:
- a support module having a bus;
- a computer module connected to the bus, the computer module having a processor;
- multiple applications stored on the computer module and executed by the processor;
- and
- an Internet wireless link connected to the support module to provide access for the computer module to the Internet.
A vehicle computer system comprising:
- a computer;
- an open platform operating system executing on the computer;
- multiple applications executing on the operating system;
- and
- an Internet wireless link to provide access to the Internet.
A computer network system for an automobile, comprising:
- a network;
- at least one client computing device connected to the network;
- a vehicle computer system connected to the network to serve content to the client computing device, the vehicle computer system comprising:
- a computer;
- an open platform operating system executing on the computer;
- multiple applications executing on the operating system;
- and
- an Internet wireless link to provide access to the Internet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.