Patent ID: 9367968
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G07C,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for a computing system, the method comprising: receiving vehicle state information from an on-board diagnostic (OBD) system of a vehicle at a telematics control unit (TCU) residing on-board the vehicle and interfacing with the OBD system via an OBD protocol compliant diagnostic port connector; transmitting a SIM card identifier of the TCU over a first wireless data link of a communications network directed to a remote computing device; at a mobile computing device, receiving a manually entered user input via a mobile application program indicating a serial number identifier of the TCU; at the remote computing device, obtaining the SIM card identifier transmitted over the first wireless data link and the serial number identifier received via the mobile application program; enabling operation of the TCU if a matched relationship is determined by the remote computing device to exist between the SIM card identifier and the serial number identifier of the TCU, said enabling including: transmitting an indication of vehicle state from the TCU for delivery to the mobile computing device over at least a second wireless data link of the communications network, the indication of vehicle state being based at least in part on the vehicle state information received at the TCU; receiving the indication of vehicle state at the mobile computing device; and utilizing the indication of vehicle state at a mobile application program of the mobile computing device by one or more of: