Patent ID: 11858350
Assignee: PACCAR INC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 4:
5. A method for providing flexible vehicle status notifications via an instrument cluster displayed on an in-vehicle screen, comprising:
receiving information associated with a gauge measurement that is outside of a normal operating range;
determining a gauge state based on the received information;
determining whether the gauge is currently displayed on-screen or hidden from display;
when the gauge is currently displayed on-screen, updating the instrument cluster to change the gauge from a current display state to a display state associated with the gauge state, wherein the display state includes presentation attributes of a salience level corresponding to the gauge state; and
when the gauge is currently hidden from display, updating the instrument cluster to show the gauge in the display state associated with the gauge state;
determining, based on the received information, to provide a popup notification in association with the gauge measurement that is outside the normal operating range;
determining a salience level of the popup notification based on safety relevance, operational relevance, and time relevance using a first set of evaluation criteria;

storing, in an input queue, the popup notification in an ordered input queue list of active notifications, wherein the active notifications in the ordered input queue list are ordered based at least in part on the salience level; and
moving the ordered input queue list to a main stack of the active notifications that are accessible for display as popup notifications in a notification zone in the instrument cluster.