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

• US 9,225,679 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2014
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• 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:
  US14/171,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195628A1
• Time in Patent Office: 694 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

An information distribution system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server configured to receive a communication message. The at least one server further configured to identify an element, in a communication text portion, corresponding to a predefined category based on an element classification model. The at least one server further configured to identify additional information associated with the predefined category and provide the identified information to an application on the computing system. The application on the computing system is pre-specified for utilization of information associated with the predefined category.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a server in communication with a vehicle computing system (VCS) via a transceiver and configured to;

in response to an electronic-mail message identifying the VCS, transmit information from the message received at the server to an application on the VCS, the information pre-specified for utilization by the application and associated with a predefined category identified via a classification model classifying an element corresponding to the predefined category in text of the message.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the element is a word identified as navigation data.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the classification model identifies navigation information based on the navigation data.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the predefined category is a navigation category based on the navigation information.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the element is a word having a predefined association with the navigation category.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the navigation information is a complete street address based on the association with the predefined category useable by a navigation application to generate a route.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the navigation information is a point of interest name.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the point of interest name is a business name.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the pre-specified information is navigation information based on the application being a navigation application.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is further configured to:

receive a subscriber identification with the message; and

provide the information to the VCS based on the subscriber identification.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the subscriber identification is a cellular telephone number.

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

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is further configured to transmit the information to a smartphone.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the smartphone may communicate the information to the VCS.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the communication between the smartphone and the VCS is by Bluetooth.

16. A method comprising:

receiving, via a server processor, an electronic-mail message having text and a vehicle computing system (VCS) identifier;

identifying information based on an element in the text of the electronic-mail message corresponding to a predefined category related to a VCS application via an element classification model; and

transmitting the information from the electronic-mail message to the VCS application pre-specified for utilization of the predefined category at the identified VCS.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a subscriber identification with the electronic-mail message; and

providing the information to the VCS based on the subscriber identification.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the subscriber identification is a cellular telephone number.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the identifying of the element is done by machine learning.

20. A vehicle computing system (VCS) comprising:

at least one controller in communication with a transceiver;

the transceiver in communication with a nomadic wireless device configured to identify an element in an electronic-mail message corresponding to a predefined category related to a VCS application;

the at least one controller configured to;

receive identified information from the nomadic wireless device based on the predefined category and a subscriber identification associated with a VCS;

select the VCS application based on the identified information;

execute the VCS application;

process the identified information at the VCS application; and

output the processed identified information.