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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1998
Jamison Gray, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Chu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A vehicle control computer system uses JavaBeans™ 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™ 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™ 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.