Patent ID: 9002574
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: G06F,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a vehicle head unit having a first physical screen, the vehicle head unit implementing at least one type of second screen that is different than the first physical screen; wherein the second screen comprises a generic application display screen; a server computer, the server computer arranged for communications over a mobile network to a mobile phone; wherein the server computer is further arranged to deliver phone application information associated with a specific user application program executable on a mobile phone, and the server delivers the phone application information to the mobile phone via the mobile network; and wherein the phone application information enables extending a user interface of the specific user application program to utilize the second screen of the vehicle head unit; a handset application proxy (HAP) software application executable in the mobile phone; and a head unit proxy (HUP) software application executable on the vehicle head unit; wherein the HAP and the HUP are arranged to communicate messages or events between them, and to utilize aspects of the phone application information to enable the specific user application program on the mobile phone to interact with the second screen of the vehicle head unit; and wherein the handset application proxy (HAP) is arranged to send one or more of content, text and images to the head unit proxy (HUP) for rendering in accordance with a predetermined template layout of the second screen.