Method of communicating vehicle messages using short message system messages
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorJames W. Leyerle
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Abstract
A system and method for communicating reportable vehicle events via SMS messages. The method carried out by the system includes storing a user-provided contact at a vehicle, monitoring a plurality of vehicle conditions, detecting that one of the vehicle conditions has become a reportable vehicle condition, and sending a short-message service (SMS) message to the stored contact based on the determination, wherein the SMS message includes information associated with the reportable vehicle condition.
Claims20
A method of communicating messages from a vehicle telematics unit, comprising the steps of:
- (a) storing a user-provided contact at a vehicle;
- (b) monitoring a plurality of vehicle conditions;
- (c) detecting that one of the vehicle conditions has become a reportable vehicle condition;
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- (d) sending a short-message service (SMS) message to the stored contact based on the determination, wherein the SMS message includes information associated with the reportable vehicle condition.
A method of communicating messages from a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- (a) storing a wireless device contact at the vehicle;
- (b) monitoring vehicle data;
- (c) detecting a reportable vehicle condition based on the vehicle data;
- (d) generating a text message identifying the reportable vehicle condition;
- (e) accessing the wireless device contact;
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- (f) sending the text message as a short-message service (SMS) message to the accessed wireless device contact.
A method of communicating messages from a vehicle telematics unit, comprising the steps of:
- (a) maintaining an address book of wireless telephone numbers at a telematics unit in a vehicle;
- (b) associating each of at least some of the telephone numbers with at least one of a number of reportable vehicle conditions relating to the status of a vehicle;
- (c) detecting that one of the reportable vehicle conditions exists;
- (d) accessing the address book and obtaining one or more telephone numbers associated with the reportable vehicle condition that matches the existing vehicle condition;
- (e) sending a short-message service (SMS) message to the obtained wireless number(s);
- (f) creating a log of SMS messages sent and the wireless numbers to which the SMS messages were sent;
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- (g) uploading the log to a call center.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.