Customer-identifying email addresses to enable a medium of communication that supports many service providers

• US 9,071,568 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2014
• Issued: 06/30/2015
• 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: Church, Zachary, Gersabeck, David Marvin
• Primary Examiner(s): EL CHANTI, HUSSEIN A
• Application Number:
  US14/171,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195627A1
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36, 701/400
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a vehicle computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server is configured to receive an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider. The at least one server is further configured to parse the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider and identify information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data. The at least one server is further configured to extract the identified information and transmit the information for communication to the vehicle computing system.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a transceiver in communication with a vehicle computing system (VCS);

a server in communication with the transceiver, the server is configured to;

receive an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider;

parse the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider;

identify information usable by the VCS in the retrieved data;

extract the identified information; and

transmit the information for communication to the VCS.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the information includes at least one of a name, address, and phone number based on the list of businesses.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the VCS includes one or more applications to process the at least one of the name, address, and phone number of the list of businesses.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more applications may output destination information based on the list of businesses.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the transceiver is based on wireless technology including at least one of Wi-Fi, Mi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth low energy.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is further configured to provide the information to at least one of a nomadic wireless device and an embedded cellular telephone based on the subscriber identification.

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

8. A method comprising:

receiving an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider;

parsing the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider;

identifying, via a server having at least one processor, information usable by a vehicle computing system in the retrieved data;

extracting the identified information; and

transmitting the information for communication to the vehicle computing system based on the subscriber identification.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising transmitting the information to at least one of a nomadic wireless device and an embedded cellular phone.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the transmitting of the information is done by wireless technology including at least one of WiFi, Bluetooth, and Mi-Fi.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the information includes at least one of a name, address, and phone number based on the list of businesses.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the vehicle computing system includes one or more applications to process the at least one of the name, address, and phone number of the list of businesses.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more applications may output destination information based on the list of businesses.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the vehicle computing system communicating the destination information on an LCD touchscreen.

15. A computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer read-able medium that is programmed for transmitting extracted service provider data to a vehicle computing system for processing using one or more applications, the computer-program product comprising instructions for:

receiving an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider;

parsing the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider;

identifying information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data;

extracting the identified information; and

transmitting the information for communication to the vehicle computing system based on the subscriber identification.

16. The computer-program product of claim 15, further comprising additional instructions for processing the received information at the vehicle computing system based on the one or more applications and outputting the processed information to a display.