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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
May. 19, 2005
Matthew J. Rossow, Dos Palos, CA (US);
Michael L. O'connor, Redwood City, CA (US);
David G. Lawrence, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew J. Rossow, Dos Palos, CA (US);
Michael L. O'Connor, Redwood City, CA (US);
David G. Lawrence, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Novariant, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
To reduce the number of processors and/or displays in mobile equipment, an operating system is emulated in one example. A primary operating system runs on a processor or uses a particular display. The emulated operating system shares the same processor and/or same display. The emulation allows use of applications drafted or written for different operating systems in a common or shared environment. As another example, a virtual terminal function is emulated on a particular device. The particular device interacts with additional sources of information for displaying images on a same display. Using emulated operating systems or virtual terminals, a navigation program is used in a vehicle. An additional program is run on the same processor or shares the same display in the same vehicle at substantially the same time.