System and method for updating information in electronic calendars
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1. A method of updating electronic calendar information, comprising the steps of:
- providing at least one server that is remotely located with respect to a vehicle having a vehicle telematics unit (VTU), the at least one server being in communication with a vehicle call center equipped to provide back-end services to the vehicle, wherein the at least one server stores instructions for an internet-enabled calendaring application comprising a plurality of electronic calendars, each electronic calendar having data fields associated with one or more of;
user appointments, user contacts, user business information, and user personal information;
receiving at the VTU, from a first user located in the vehicle, speech representative of information related to a particular vehicle trip, wherein the first user is a subscriber to the internet-enabled calendaring application having access to a first electronic calendar;
recording the received speech in the VTU as a voice memo;
converting the voice memo to converted-text data using speech recognition, wherein the converting step occurs at the vehicle prior to the transmitting step or at the call center after the transmitting step; and
transmitting one of with the voice memo or the converted-text data from the VTU using cellular communication to the at least one server;
associating without human interaction the converted-text data with one or more data fields in the first electronic calendar, wherein the associating step includes;
identifying which of the one or more data fields to modify based at least partially on;
(a) a time and date stamp of the voice memo; and
(b) the converted-text data;
based on the identifying step, determining which of the one or more data fields of the first electronic calendar should be updated;
storing the converted-text data in at least one of the one or more data fields; and
providing internet access to the first electronic calendar to a second user, wherein the second user also has internet access to other electronic calendars associated with different users.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for updating electronic calendar information. Speech is received from a user at a vehicle telematics unit (VTU), wherein the speech is representative of information related to a particular vehicle trip. The received speech is recorded in the VTU as a voice memo, and data associated with the voice memo is communicated from the VTU to a computer running a calendaring application. The data is associated with a field of the calendaring application, and stored in association with the calendaring application field.
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18 Claims
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1. A method of updating electronic calendar information, comprising the steps of:
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providing at least one server that is remotely located with respect to a vehicle having a vehicle telematics unit (VTU), the at least one server being in communication with a vehicle call center equipped to provide back-end services to the vehicle, wherein the at least one server stores instructions for an internet-enabled calendaring application comprising a plurality of electronic calendars, each electronic calendar having data fields associated with one or more of;
user appointments, user contacts, user business information, and user personal information;receiving at the VTU, from a first user located in the vehicle, speech representative of information related to a particular vehicle trip, wherein the first user is a subscriber to the internet-enabled calendaring application having access to a first electronic calendar; recording the received speech in the VTU as a voice memo; converting the voice memo to converted-text data using speech recognition, wherein the converting step occurs at the vehicle prior to the transmitting step or at the call center after the transmitting step; and transmitting one of with the voice memo or the converted-text data from the VTU using cellular communication to the at least one server; associating without human interaction the converted-text data with one or more data fields in the first electronic calendar, wherein the associating step includes; identifying which of the one or more data fields to modify based at least partially on;
(a) a time and date stamp of the voice memo; and
(b) the converted-text data;
based on the identifying step, determining which of the one or more data fields of the first electronic calendar should be updated;storing the converted-text data in at least one of the one or more data fields; and providing internet access to the first electronic calendar to a second user, wherein the second user also has internet access to other electronic calendars associated with different users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18)
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14. A vehicle telematics system comprising:
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a microphone in a vehicle to receive user speech representative of information related to a particular vehicle trip; a recorder in the vehicle to record the user speech as a voice memo; a telematics unit (VTU) in the vehicle in communication with the recorder to transmit data associated with the voice memo from the VTU; and a computer server remotely located from the vehicle in cellular communication with the VTU configured to receive the transmitted data from the VTU; and at least one of a vehicle speech-to-text converter in selective communication with the VTU to convert the voice memo to converted-text data or a call center speech-to-text converter in selective communication with the VTU to convert the voice memo to converted-text data, wherein the transmitted data includes the voice memo, the converted-text data, or both, wherein the computer server hosts a calendaring application that comprises a plurality of electronic calendars which are associated with different vehicle users one of the plurality of electronic calendars being a first electronic calendar associated with the telematics unit and a first user thereof, wherein the calendaring application performs the following steps; receiving the voice memo, the converted-text data, or both; if the voice memo was not previously converted to text data by the vehicle speech-to-text converter, converting the voice memo to converted-text data using the call center speech-to-text converter; and associating without human interaction the converted-text data with one or more data fields in the first electronic calendar, wherein the associating step includes; identifying which of the one or more data fields to modify based at least partially on;
(a) a time and date stamp of the voice memo; and
(b) the converted-text data;based on the identifying step, determining which of the one or more data fields of the first electronic calendar should be updated; and storing the converted-text data in at least one of the one or more data fields; and providing internet access to the first electronic calendar to a second user, wherein the second user also has internet access to other electronic calendars associated with different users.
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15. A method of updating electronic calendar information, comprising the steps of:
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(a) performing steps (a1)-(a6) for a first user of a first fleet vehicle; (a1) receiving, from a user at a vehicle telematics unit (VTU), speech representative of information related to a particular vehicle trip; (a2) recording the received speech at the VTU as voice memo data; (a3) converting the voice memo data to converted-text data using speech recognition, wherein the converting step occurs at the vehicle prior to the step (a4) or at a computer server after the step (a4); (a4) receiving via cellular communication the voice memo data, the converted-text data, or both and at least one identifier associated with the first user at a computer server running a calendaring application remotely-located from the VTU; (a5) automatically associating at the computer server the voice memo data, the converted-text data, or both with a field of the calendaring application, wherein the automatically associating step comprises; identifying which of one or more data fields in a first electronic calendar associated with the first user to modify based at least partially on;
(a) a time and date stamp of the voice memo; and
(b) the converted-text data, wherein the one or more data fields include;
user appointments, user contacts, user business information, and user personal information; andbased on the identifying step, determining which of the one or more data fields of the first electronic calendar should be updated; and (a6) storing at the computer server the converted-text data in association with the calendaring application field; and (b) repeating step (a) for additional users of the first fleet vehicle and other fleet vehicles, wherein each of the additional users have at least one different identifier.
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