Patent ID: 8327451

Claim:
An automotive telematics system having a privacy protection framework, comprising: at least one sensor for collecting sensor data from a vehicle; and a computer device including a data protection manager for managing the sensor data, wherein the data protection manager includes: a system for receiving data requests for sensor data from a first application of a plurality of applications; a privacy engine that ensures the first application requesting sensor data has a privacy policy that complies with a privacy policy of the privacy engine; a virtual blackboard at both the vehicle and the first application for publishing the requested sensor data and application data on the virtual blackboard; and an application support layer for isolating a second application by defining access to the first application and the automotive telematics system, wherein the isolating includes deploying the second application to a sandbox, and wherein the defining access is associating the sandbox with a set of access privileges to at least one resource of the automotive telematics system.