Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jamison Gray

Eric Chu

A vehicle control computer system uses JavaBeans&trade; to implement device interfaces. A vehicle control center, having a processor and memory, provides user access to devices operating within the vehicle. The manufacturer of such devices provides a JavaBean&trade; interface stored with the device. When a device is installed in the vehicle, the processor or other control element of the vehicle control center becomes aware of the installation and requests or otherwise receives the stored JavaBean&trade; interface from the device. A data structure is used to maintain information about interfaces for devices. The vehicle control center can then use the interface as received or replace it with a different interface already stored in memory by changing the contents of the data is structure.

Networked vehicle implementing plug and play with javabeans

A vehicle control computer system uses JavaBeans&trade; to implement device interfaces. A vehicle control center, having a processor and memory, provides user access to devices operating within the vehicle. The manufacturer of such devices provides a JavaBean&trade; interface stored with the device. When a device is installed in the vehicle, the processor or other control element of the vehicle control center becomes aware of the installation and requests or otherwise receives the stored JavaBean&trade; interface from the device. The vehicle control center can then use the interface as received or replace it with a different interface already stored in memory.

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Jamison Gray