# US 2014/0195627 A1 · Customer-identifying email addresses to enable a medium of communication that supports many service providers

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- Number: US 2014/0195627 A1
- Document ID: US20140195627A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/171,116
- Filed: 2014-02-03
- Published: 2014-07-10
- Earliest claimed: 2013-01-07
- Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicants: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Inventors: Zachary CHURCH; David Marvin GERSABECK
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140195627A1

## CPC

- H04L 51/58: Message adaptation for wireless communication
- G06Q 10/107: Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
- H04L 51/046: Interoperability with other network applications or services
- H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
- H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
- B60R 25/2081: {combined with personal settings of other vehicle devices, e.g. mirrors, seats, steering wheels}
- B60R 25/24: using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
- G06F 2221/2111: Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a vehicle computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server is configured to receive an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider. The at least one server is further configured to parse the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider and identify information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data. The at least one server is further configured to extract the identified information and transmit the information for communication to the vehicle computing system.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system comprising:
one or more transceivers in communication with a vehicle computing system;
at least one server in communication with the one or more transceivers, the at least one server is configured to:
receive an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider;
parse the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider;
identify information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data;
extract the identified information; and
transmit the information for communication to the vehicle computing system.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the service provider includes Google.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The system of claim 2, wherein the data includes a list of businesses based on results generated by Google.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The system of claim 3, wherein the information includes at least one of a name, address, and phone number based on the list of businesses.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The system of claim 4, wherein the vehicle computing system includes one or more applications to process the at least one of the name, address, and phone number of the list of businesses.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more applications may output destination information based on the list of businesses.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more transceivers is based on wireless technology including at least one of Wi-Fi, Mi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth low energy.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one server is further configured to provide the information to at least one of a nomadic wireless device and an embedded cellular telephone based on the subscriber identification.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the subscriber identification is a cellular telephone number.

### Claim 10

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.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting the information to at least one of a nomadic wireless device and an embedded cellular phone.

### Claim 12 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10 wherein the transmitting of the information is done by wireless technology including at least one of WiFi, Bluetooth, and Mi-Fi.

### Claim 13 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the service provider includes Google.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The method of claim 13, wherein the data includes a list of businesses based on results generated by Google.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The method of claim 14, wherein the information includes at least one of a name, address, and phone number based on the list of businesses.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The method of claim 15, wherein the vehicle computing system includes one or more applications to process the at least one of the name, address, and phone number of the list of businesses.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more applications may output destination information based on the list of businesses.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17 wherein the vehicle computing system communicating the destination information on an LCD touchscreen.

### Claim 19

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.

### Claim 20 (depends on 19)

The computer-program product of claim 19, further comprising additional instructions for processing the received information at the vehicle computing system based on the one or more applications and outputting the processed information to a display.