Method for provisioning a telematics units

• US 20050164680A1
• Filed: 01/22/2004
• Published: 07/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Inventors: Gould, Garett W.
• Granted Patent: US 7,236,783 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

A method for provisioning a telematics units comprising the steps of: initiating a wireless over the air service provisioning session between a telematics unit and a wireless network carrier, wherein data is downloaded from the wireless network carrier to the telematics unit during the over the air service provisioning session; and upon completion of the over the air service provisioning session between the telematics unit and the wireless network carrier, automatically initiating a call from the telematics unit to a telematics service provider, wherein at least a portion of the data downloaded from the wireless network carrier to the telematics unit is uploaded to the telematics service provider.

Claims

1. A method for provisioning a telematics units comprising the steps of:

initiating a wireless over-the-air service provisioning session between a telematics unit and a wireless network carrier, wherein data is downloaded from the wireless network carrier to the telematics unit during the over the air service provisioning session; and

upon completion of the over-the-air service provisioning session between the telematics unit and the wireless network carrier, automatically initiating a call from the telematics unit to a telematics service provider, wherein at least a portion of the data downloaded from the wireless network carrier to the telematics unit is uploaded to the telematics service provider.

2. The method of claim 1, also comprising the steps of:

updating a database at the telematics service provider with the data uploaded from the telematics unit; and

utilizing the updated database to provide telematics services through the telematics unit.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

determining whether the over-the-air service provisioning session with the wireless network carrier was successful;

responsive to the determining step, if the over-the-air service provisioning session with the carrier was not successful, initiating a telematics service provider over-the-air service provisioning session, wherein data is downloaded to the telematics unit during the telematics service provider over-the-air service provisioning session.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the telematics service provider over the air provisioning service session is initiated by a vehicle ignition cycle.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the telematics service provider over the air service provisioning session is initiated based on a number of ignition cycles counted within a predetermined period of time.