Status-assisted communications with a vehicle
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorsScott Droste, Khaled Rabbah
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Abstract
A method of sending data from a central facility to a vehicle includes transmitting a vehicle identifier to a status server from a central facility located apart from the status server; obtaining at the central facility one or more vehicle status variables corresponding to the transmitted identity of the vehicle from the status server; and initiating a direct transmission of packet data from the central facility to the vehicle based on the content of the obtained vehicle status variables.
Claims18
A method of directly sending data from a central facility to a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- (a) transmitting a vehicle identifier to a status server from a central facility located apart from the status server;
- (b) obtaining at the central facility one or more vehicle status variables corresponding to the transmitted identity of the vehicle from the status server;
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- (c) initiating a direct transmission of packet data from the central facility to the vehicle based on the content of the obtained vehicle status variables.
A method of facilitating the direct transmission of data from a central facility to a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving at a status server vehicle status variables associated with one or more vehicle identifiers;
- (b) receiving at the status server a vehicle identifier from the central facility;
- (c) determining that the vehicle identifier received from the central facility matches a vehicle identifier stored in the status server;
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- (d) transmitting vehicle status variables associated with the matching vehicle identifier to the central facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.