Method and system for pulling information from a mobile vehicle within a mobile vehicle communications systems

• US 7,526,246 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2005
• Issued: 04/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Inventors: Videtich, Matt C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharma; Sujatha
• Application Number:
  US11/187,492
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.06, 455/466, 455/3.02, 455/12.1, 455/3.01, 455/569.2, 455/575.9, 455/427, 455/553, 455/557, 455/418, 455/426.1, 455/422.1, 455/456.1, 455/430, 455/352, 455/344, 455/345, 455/353, 4554141-4143, 455/415, 340/425.5, 340/500, 340/501, 340/505, 340/517, 340/988, 340/989, 340/825.36, 340/825.49
• US Class Current: 455/3.06
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18567 Arrangements for providing additional services to the basic mobile satellite telephony service
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/70 characterised in that receivers can be addressed
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/40 for identifying broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/91 Mobile communication networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/85

Abstract

A system and method is directed to obtaining information from a mobile vehicle within a mobile vehicle communication service. The method provides creating a mobile vehicle contact list based on an information request, determining a time period to transmit the mobile vehicle contact list and the information request, transmitting the mobile vehicle contact list and the information request to the mobile vehicle at the determined time period, and receiving the information from the mobile vehicle, at a specified time, based on the information requested. The system further provides means for creating a vehicle contact list based on the information request, means for determining a time period to transmit the mobile vehicle contact list and the information request, means for transmitting the mobile vehicle contact list and the information request to the mobile vehicle at the determined time period, and means for receiving the information, at a specified time, from the mobile vehicle based on the information requested.

Claims

1. A method for communicating with a first vehicle within a service comprising:

identifying vehicles within the service;

identifying a set of the vehicles within the service from which information is desired, wherein the first vehicle is a member of the set;

creating a message having identification information corresponding to the set of the vehicles and a request common to the set of the vehicles;

transmitting the message using a satellite broadcast, wherein at least a subset of the set of the vehicles accept the transmitted message using the identification information, wherein the first vehicle is within the subset;

in response to the message, transmitting data to the service from the first vehicle within the subset and additional vehicles within the subset, wherein the satellite broadcast is used to schedule retrieval of the data from the set of vehicles.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identification information comprises a group identifier.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the group identifier comprise information from a satellite radio identification number, a vehicle identification number, a satellite radio user characteristic and a geographic characteristic.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the group identifier comprises vehicle identification number information, wherein the vehicle identification number information is used to identify the set of the vehicles.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the message is related to at least one vehicle model in the set of vehicles.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the identification information identifies a vehicle model.

12. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first message is related to at least one vehicle model in the first set of vehicles.

13. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first identification information identifies a vehicle model.

7. A method for communicating with a first vehicle within a service comprising:

identifying vehicles within the service;

identifying a first set of the vehicles within the service from which information is desired, wherein the first vehicle is a member of the set;

creating a first message having first identification information corresponding to the first set of the vehicles and first response timing information;

transmitting the first message using a satellite broadcast, wherein at least a first subset of the first set of the vehicles accept the transmitted first message using the first identification information, wherein the first vehicle is within the first subset;

in response to the first message and the first response timing information, transmitting first data to the service from the first vehicle within the first subset and additional vehicles within the subset, wherein the satellite broadcast is used to schedule retrieval of the data from the first set of vehicles.

8. A method according to claim 7, also comprising:

identifying a second set of the vehicles within the service from which information is desired;

creating a second message having second identification information corresponding to the second set of the vehicles and response timing information;

transmitting the second message using the satellite broadcast, wherein at least a second subset of the second set of the vehicles accept the transmitted second message using the second identification information;

in response to the second message and the second response timing information, transmitting second data to the service from vehicles within the second subset, wherein timing of communications with vehicles within the service is managed.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the first identification information comprises a group identifier.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the group identifier comprise information from a satellite radio identification number, a vehicle identification number, a satellite radio user characteristic and a geographic characteristic.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the group identifier comprises vehicle identification number information, wherein the vehicle identification number information is used to identify the first set of the vehicles.