Methods and systems for sending contextual content to connected vehicles and configurable interaction modes for vehicle interfaces

A method, comprising:

• receiving geographic locations of a vehicle over time, at a server configured to execute cloud services for a user account, the user account identifying the vehicle, and the user account further includes a profile for a user of the vehicle, the profile further including explicit preferences, the user account being stored in a database accessible by the server;
• accessing, by the server, the profile to identify a history of use of the vehicle for the user;
• generating, from time to time, a plurality of learned preferences that are associated to the profile of the user by examining the history of use of the vehicle for the user, wherein the history of use of the vehicle includes geographic locations of the vehicle, inputs made to a user interface of the vehicle at particular times or when the vehicle is identified to have been at particular geographic locations;
• for a current geographic location and for a current time, identifying supplemental content for display on the user interface, the supplemental content being contextually related to the current geographic location of the vehicle or a most recent geographical location of the vehicle, the current time, and said explicit and learned preferences that are associated to the profile of the user;
• determining, by the server, whether to filter out some or all of the supplemental content;
• and
• sending, by the server, the supplemental content that was not filtered out to the vehicle over a wireless network, the supplemental content configured for display on the user interface of the vehicle, the method is executed by a processor.

A method, comprising,

• receiving a request to access a user account of a user for a vehicle, the user account providing access to an application that provides cloud services for the vehicle, the cloud services being processed by a server that is accessible via one or both of a computing device or a vehicle computer, and the server is provided with access to a database that includes the user account of the user;
• providing data for rendering a graphical user interface (GUI) for the application, the application is configured to display a plurality of preferences associated with interacting with and receiving information from user interface to be rendered on a screen of the vehicle;
• receiving selections of at least two of the plurality of preferences;
• determining an interaction mode for the vehicle based on the received selections, the interaction mode defining a level of information items to be displayed on the screen of the vehicle and defining an intensity of interactive notifications or data to be received at the vehicle for display on the screen of the vehicle;
• and
• sending, by the server, configuration settings to the vehicle, the configuration settings used to implement the interaction mode on the vehicle when the user account of the user is active on the vehicle, the method being executed by a processor.