Customer-identifying email addresses to enable a medium of communication that supports many service providers

A method of extracting service provider data for transmittal to a vehicle computing system, the method comprising:

• receiving an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider;
• parsing the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider;
• identifying information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data;
• extracting the identified information;
• and
• transmitting the information for communication to the vehicle computing system based on the subscriber identification.

A computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer read-able medium that is programmed for transmitting extracted service provider data to a vehicle computing system for processing using one or more applications, the computer-program product comprising instructions for:

• receiving an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider;
• parsing the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider;
• identifying information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data;
• extracting the identified information;
• and
• transmitting the information for communication to the vehicle computing system based on the subscriber identification.