Patent ID: 8180908

Claim:
A method for standardizing vehicle communications comprising the acts of: receiving, over a first network connection, a non-standard information technology (IT) device request from an onboard vehicle system to access a third-party application, wherein the first network connection is a wireless network connection; simulating, over a second network connection, a standard IT device request to the third-party application corresponding to the non-standard IT device request, and wherein said simulating does not dependent on the particular third-party application for which the standard IT device request is being simulating; receiving, over the second network connection, a standard IT device response from the third-party application in response to the standard IT device request; determining a vehicle communication parameter for said onboard vehicle system; detecting that the first network connection has been temporarily lost and, in response thereto, simulating to the third-party application over the second network connection that the first network connection is still active; sending, over the first network connection once it has been reestablished, a non-standard IT device response to the onboard vehicle system in accordance with the vehicle communication parameter, wherein the non-standard IT device response corresponds to the standard IT device response received from the third-party application; receiving a series of data transfers from the onboard vehicle system intended for the third-party application; and transmitting the series of data transfers as a single block data transfer to the third-party application, wherein the single block data transfer corresponds to how a the third-party application expects to receive data from a standard IT device rather than an onboard vehicle system.