Method and Device for Demonstrating Features of a Vehicle Navigation System
Granted: November 29, 2007
Application Number:
20070276584
A demonstration method and module for demonstrating various features of a vehicle navigation system without activating the system at a back-end facility, such as a remote call center. The demonstration module comes with a variety of pre-established navigation demonstrations, each of which is designed for a particular geographic area. The demonstration module obtains a vehicle position reading from the vehicle navigation system, and then utilizes this reading to select the most…
DISTINGUISHING OUT-OF-VOCABULARY SPEECH FROM IN-VOCABULARY SPEECH
Granted: November 15, 2007
Application Number:
20070265849
A speech recognition method includes receiving input speech from a user, processing the input speech using a first grammar to obtain parameter values of a first N-best list of vocabulary, comparing a parameter value of a top result of the first N-best list to a threshold value, and if the compared parameter value is below the threshold value, then additionally processing the input speech using a second grammar to obtain parameter values of a second N-best list of vocabulary. Other…
METHOD FOR DATA COMMUNICATION VIA A VOICE CHANNEL OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Granted: November 8, 2007
Application Number:
20070258398
A system and method for data communication over a cellular communications network that allows the transmission of digital data over a voice channel using a vocoder that operates in different modes depending upon characteristics of the inputted signal it receives. To prepare the digital data for transmission, one or more carrier signals are encoded with the digital data using one of a number of modulation schemes that utilize differential phase shift keying to give the modulated carrier…
METHOD FOR CHANGING THE MOBILE NUMBER OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE
Granted: November 1, 2007
Application Number:
20070254639
An automated method for remotely changing the mobile number (MDN or MIN) of a wireless communications device, such as a vehicle communications device capable of making hands-free calls. Generally, some wireless carriers do not allow multiple mobile numbers to be simultaneously activated to a single wireless communications device. Therefore, when a mobile number change request is made, the automated method determines what type of process is most appropriate for that change: an indirect…
DYNAMIC CLUSTERING OF NAMETAGS IN AN AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM
Granted: October 25, 2007
Application Number:
20070250320
A speech recognition method includes receiving a nametag utterance, decoding the nametag utterance to recognize constituent subwords of the nametag utterance, determining the number of subwords in the nametag utterance, and associating the nametag utterance with one or more of a plurality of different nametag clusters based on the number of subwords in the nametag utterance. According to preferred aspects of the method, a confusability check is performed on the nametag utterance within…
AUTOMATED ENROLLMENT AND ACTIVATION OF TELEMATICS EQUIPPED VEHICLES
Granted: October 18, 2007
Application Number:
20070244628
A method for automated enrollment and activation of a mobile telematics system comprising receiving a customer data record of a customer at a communication services database, determining a command signal based on the customer data record, sending the command signal to a telematics unit of a vehicle, enrolling the customer in a telematics-unit access system based on the command signal and activating the telematics unit of the telematics-unit access system based on the command signal.
METHOD OF CONFIGURING VOICE AND DATA COMMUNICATION OVER A VOICE CHANNEL
Granted: August 16, 2007
Application Number:
20070190950
A method for configuring voice and data communication over a voice channel of a wireless telecommunications network that includes an onboard vehicle communications system, a cell tower, a base station, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and a remote call center. Initially, a component on the network side, such as a network vocoder incorporated within a base station, selects a data rate during configuration of the voice channel. Thereafter, an onboard vocoder incorporated within a…
ENROLLMENT METHOD FOR A VEHICLE EMAIL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
Granted: August 16, 2007
Application Number:
20070191995
A vehicle email notification system and method in which subscribers can enroll via a call to a wireless assistance center or via a website, or automatically at delivery using a customer delivery record supplied by the dealer to a wireless assistance center. Once enrolled, the subscriber receives periodic email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information. The email notifications are triggered by different events, some of which are independent of the vehicle (e.g., a…
Method for remote reprogramming of vehicle flash memory
Granted: August 9, 2007
Application Number:
20070185624
A system and method for managing remote reprogramming of flash memory in a vehicle electronic control unit. A vehicle state manager process is used to first determine if the vehicle conditions are suitable for reprogramming of a particular ECU and, if so, the vehicle state manager then maintains the proper vehicle configuration during the reprogramming operation. The system and method can be used to automatically reprogram a vehicle ECU using new programming received by digital satellite…
VEHICLE EMAIL SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH FINANCIAL NOTIFICATION FEATURES
Granted: August 2, 2007
Application Number:
20070179798
A vehicle email notification system and method that provides the owner or other authorized subscriber with email messages containing dynamic vehicle information such as mileage and remaining oil life along with vehicle financial information such as lease information, end of lease options, and an estimated vehicle price based on mileage and maintenance records. The email messages are triggered by different events, some of which are independent of the vehicle (e.g., a monthly trigger), and…
EMAIL-BASED COMMAND INTERFACE FOR A TELEMATICS-EQUIPPED VEHICLE
Granted: August 2, 2007
Application Number:
20070179800
An email-based interface to a telematics-equipped vehicle which allows a subscriber to send an email command to the vehicle to obtain vehicle information by return email or to carry out a vehicle function. The email-based interface method uses a vehicle email notification system and method in which triggers are used to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email…
USER-INITIATED VEHICLE EMAIL NOTIFICATION
Granted: August 2, 2007
Application Number:
20070179799
A method and system for user-initiated vehicle email notifications in which an owner or user of the vehicle initiates the generation and transmission of an email message that provides diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email notification can be triggered at the vehicle using the vehicle's telematics unit or from anywhere by a call to a call center that then communicates with the vehicle. Notifications can also be triggered by…
VEHICLE EMAIL NOTIFICATION USING TEMPLATES
Granted: August 2, 2007
Application Number:
20070179706
A vehicle email notification system and method in which templates are used to automatically generate email messages that provide the recipient with diverse types of dynamic vehicle information. The email notifications are triggered by different events, some of which are independent of the vehicle (e.g., a monthly trigger), and others of which occur at the vehicle, such as a mileage or low oil life trigger. The notification system selects an appropriate template based on the type of…
VEHICLE EMAIL NOTIFICATION BASED ON CUSTOMER-SELECTED SEVERITY LEVEL
Granted: July 26, 2007
Application Number:
20070171029
A vehicle email notification method and system that uses customer-selected severity settings to send special notifications to the subscriber. The notification system uses triggers to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the subscriber. The email notifications are triggered by different events, some of which are independent of the vehicle (e.g., a monthly trigger), and others of which occur at the vehicle,…
PRE-DELIVERY INSPECTION AUDITING SYSTEM AND METHOD
Granted: July 26, 2007
Application Number:
20070173986
A vehicle email notification system in which pre-delivery inspections by dealers can be automatically audited to help insure that vehicles are being delivered to customers with the proper initial values of such things as tire pressure and fluid levels. The notification system uses triggers to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. This information is also used by the…
VEHICLE EMAIL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
Granted: July 26, 2007
Application Number:
20070173992
A vehicle email notification system and method in which triggers are used to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email notifications are triggered by different events, some of which are independent of the vehicle (e.g., a 30 day trigger to provide the subscriber with a monthly vehicle status report), and others of which occur at the vehicle, such as a mileage…
Method of improving a vehicle emergency call network
Granted: July 5, 2007
Application Number:
20070152877
A method of improving a vehicle emergency call network used during an enhanced 911 call, which is especially useful in environments having degraded GPS signals. The present method utilizes an independent position enhancement algorithm, such as a dead reckoning algorithm, and converts the output of that algorithm into a compatible format compatible with a position determining entity (PDE). Some independent position enhancement algorithms return output in the form of position information…
METHOD OF MAKING A MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A VAPOR BARRIER LAYER, A GAS DIFFUSION LAYER, OR BOTH
Granted: June 21, 2007
Application Number:
20070141405
Methods of producing an electrochemical conversion assembly comprising an electrochemical conversion cell are provided. The electrochemical conversion cells which comprises a membrane electrode assembly, first and second flowfield portions defined on opposite sides of the membrane electrode assembly, and, at least one vapor barrier layer disposed between the membrane electrode assembly and at least one of the flowfield portions. The method further includes selecting a desired mass…
METHOD FOR ARBITRATING BETWEEN MULTIPLE VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
Granted: June 21, 2007
Application Number:
20070143018
A method for arbitrating between vehicle navigation systems in the event that multiple systems are concurrently activated so that information is provided to a user by only one navigation system at a time. This method of arbitration reduces the possibility of user confusion that could otherwise occur if multiple vehicle navigation systems were simultaneously providing the user with information. According to one embodiment, the arbitration method is used in conjunction with a…
METHOD FOR DATA COMMUNICATION VIA A VOICE CHANNEL OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Granted: April 26, 2007
Application Number:
20070092024
A system and method for data communication over a cellular communications network that allows the transmission of digital data over a voice channel of the communications network. Digital data is encoded into DBPSK data using differential binary phase shift keying encoding. The DBPSK data is then sent across the cellular network using a vocoder having a linear predictive or other speech compression codec. At the receiving end, the DBPSK data is demodulated back into the original digital…
