Methods and apparatus for dynamic embedded object handling

• US 8,682,529 B1
• Filed: 01/07/2013
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Gersabeck, David Marvin, Church, Zachary
• Primary Examiner(s): Elchanti, Hussein A.
• Application Number:
  US13/735,788
• Time in Patent Office: 442 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36, 701/400
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2081 combined with personal settings of other vehicle devices, e.g. mirrors, seats, steering wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• 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: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A navigation information distribution system comprising one or more servers in communication with each other to parse embedded data attached to an electronic mail message. The servers are configured to receive an email including destination data associated with subscriber identification. Before parsing the embedded data, the server may confirm the subscriber identification included in the email is a valid active subscriber. After confirmation of the subscriber'"'"'s status, the servers parse the destination data from the email and determine a location based on the destination data using a map database. After parsing, the server may receive a request for the location from a nomadic wireless device for downloading. The request from the nomadic wireless device may include the subscriber identification to associate the stored data on the server with the subscriber. The server may transmit the location for communication to the nomadic wireless device.

Claims

1. A navigation information distribution system, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured to;

receive an email including destination data and a subscriber identification;

parse the email to retrieve destination data;

confirm a location based on the destination data corresponds to an actual address using a map database;

receive a request for the location from a nomadic wireless device, the request including the subscriber identification; and

transmit the location for communication to the nomadic wireless device.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising the nomadic wireless device to communicate the location to a vehicle computing system.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the communication between the nomadic wireless device and the vehicle computing system is by Bluetooth.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein the vehicle computing system displays the location onto an LCD.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein the vehicle computing system communicates the location audibly over speakers.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein audibly communication of the location is turn-by-turn directions.

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

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the location based on the destination data is determined by a Geocoding Service.

9. The system of claim 1 further comprising the one or more servers to transmit a reminder message to a user that their request is awaiting upload.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the subscriber is determined by an Account Manager Service database.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the destination data is in a vCard format.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein the nomadic wireless device is a cellular telephone.

13. A method for sending navigation directions, the method comprising:

receiving an email including destination data and a subscriber identification;

parsing the destination data from the email;

confirming a location based on destination data corresponds to an actual address using a map database;

receiving a request for the location from a nomadic wireless device, the request including the subscriber identification; and

transmitting the location for communication to the nomadic wireless device.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising the nomadic wireless device transmitting the location to a vehicle computing system.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein transmitting the location is done by Bluetooth.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the vehicle computing system communicating the location on an LCD touchscreen.

17. The method of claim 14 wherein the vehicle computing system communicating the location by audible turn-by-turn directions.

18. The method of claim 13 transmitting the parsed information from the email to a secondary database to confirm the information is accurate.

19. The method of claim 13 wherein the parsing of data is done by machine learning.

20. A navigation information distribution system, the system comprising:

one or more servers configured to;

receive an email including destination data and a subscriber identification;

parse the email to retrieve destination data;

confirm a location based on destination data corresponds to an actual address using a map database;

store destination data based on the subscribers identification;

transmit a message to a nomadic wireless device that the destination data is awaiting upload;

receive a request for the location from the nomadic wireless device, the request including the subscriber identification; and

transmit the location for communication to the nomadic wireless device.