Patent ID: 7171345

Claim:
A method for simulating an input to a telematics system comprising: simulating a component including: selecting a vehicle component simulator from a plurality of vehicle component simulators; retrieving a corresponding simulator description file (SDF), wherein the retrieved SDF corresponds to the selected vehicle component simulator and includes at least one component for a selected vehicle simulation; and activating at least one component simulation identified in the SDF; displaying the activated component simulation; and establishing a communication link via a telematics client framework between the simulated component and a corresponding cadet in a telematics control unit (TCU) wherein the telematics client framework includes a client communications framework including a message manager, a stream manager, a data multiplexer, a flow controller, a policy manager, a channel monitor and an interface to a plurality of physical channels available to the client communications framework and wherein the TCU includes a hardware layer, a real-time operating system, Java virtual machine (JVM) layer, an open services gateway initiative (OSGi) layer, and a plurality of client applications, the plurality of client applications including an interface to the plurality of client applications.