Service delivery network

• US 8,718,632 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: DiMeo, David M., Marchwicki, Julius
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q
• Application Number:
  US12/869,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20120052854A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,349 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/433
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

A service delivery network provides a variety of services to a caller placing a call to the network through a vehicle communication system. The network includes automatic call routing, and has access to one or more databases with various caller services. These databases include, but are not limited to, traffic, POI databases and routing engines. A system administration manager associated with the network is capable of identifying calls based on a vehicle identification number (VIN) associated with a call, and can store logs of each call, including the identifying VIN.

Claims

1. A computer-enacted method comprising:

receiving, at a server, a first wireless device identification (WID) based on a call from the wireless device connecting a vehicle computing system (VCS) to a remote network;

receiving a vehicle identification number (VIN) of a vehicle housing a VCS based on a request sent from the VCS;

determining a level-of-service associated based on both the VIN and MID, wherein the level of service varies for a given VIN and received with varied MIDs and vice versa;

providing VCS access to services corresponding to the determined level-of-service;

determining a user, based at least in part on the first identification;

determining the vehicle housing the vehicle computing system, based at least in part on the second identification;

determining that the user has a particular affiliation with the vehicle;

determining that the user has a similar affiliation with a second vehicle, wherein the second vehicle has a different level-of-service associated therewith than does the vehicle housing the vehicle computing system; and

providing access to services corresponding to the level-of-service associated with the second vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the WID is a wireless phone number associated with the wireless device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the affiliation with the vehicle is an owner-type affiliation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the affiliation with the vehicle is a non-owner-type affiliation.

5. A computer-enacted method comprising:

receiving, at a server, a first wireless device identification (WID) based on a call from the wireless device connecting a vehicle computing system (VCS) to a remote network;

receiving a vehicle identification number (VIN) of a vehicle housing a VCS based on a request sent from the VCS;

determining a level-of-service associated based on both the VIN and MID, wherein the level of service varies for a given VIN and received with varied MIDs and vice versa;

providing VCS access to services corresponding to the determined level-of-service;

determining a first user, based at least in part on the first identification;

determining the vehicle housing the vehicle computing system, based at least in part on the second identification;

determining that the first user has a particular affiliation with the vehicle;

determining that a second user, having a similar affiliation with the vehicle, has a different level-of-service associated therewith than the first user; and

providing access to services corresponding to the level-of-service associated with the second user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the affiliation with the vehicle is an owner-type affiliation.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the affiliation with the vehicle is a non-owner-type affiliation.