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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2003
William D. Sproule, Woodinville, WA (US);
W. Michael Anderson, Woodinville, WA (US);
William D. Sproule, Woodinville, WA (US);
W. Michael Anderson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Facilitating communication with automotive vehicle buses may be enabled using a vehicle gateway device (VGWD) and/or a vehicle gateway server (VGWS). In a described implementation, a VGWS may use a vehicle model database to translate requested vehicle data in a generic format from a generic data request into a vehicle-specific data format. VGWS may then send a vehicle-specific data request that has requested vehicle data in the vehicle-specific data format to a VGWD. The VGWD is able to acquire the desired vehicle data from a vehicle bus without translation using the vehicle-specific data format. The VGWD may forward the desired vehicle data in the vehicle-specific data format to the VGWS. The VGWS may then use the vehicle model database to translate the desired vehicle data in the vehicle-specific data format into desired vehicle data in a generic format. This desired generic vehicle data may be returned to a requesting entity.