Patent ID: 9680957
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. An in-vehicle computing system that adaptively caches multimedia data, the in-vehicle system comprising: a memory; a position sensor that provides a position signal indicative of a present location of the system; a receiver that wirelessly receives multimedia data from a remote multimedia data source; and a processor that stores the received multimedia data in the memory, transfers multimedia data in the memory to a queue for playback when an amount of multimedia data saved in the memory is at least a first threshold value and adjusts a size of the memory when a wireless communication channel is not available between the system and the remote multimedia data source; increases the size of the memory by a first amount when the wireless communication channel is not available; maintains the memory at the increased size when the wireless communication channel is subsequently available and if the amount of stored multimedia data is less than a second threshold value, the second threshold value being greater than or equal to the first threshold value; and decreases the size of the memory by a second amount when the amount of stored multimedia data is at the second threshold value.