Patent ID: 9451028
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G07C,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of selecting a communication profile for a vehicle telematics device to communicate over a vehicle electronics bus, the method comprising: receiving, at a server or a local computer, information identifying a vehicle to which the vehicle telematics device is to be connected; sending from the server or local computer to the vehicle telematics device an indication of a communication profile to be loaded on the vehicle telematics device, or the communication profile, wherein the communication profile includes communication related settings for the vehicle telematics device, the communication related settings corresponding to the vehicle electronics bus of the vehicle to which the vehicle telematics device is to be connected; and loading the communication profile on the vehicle telematics device, wherein the vehicle telematics device is field configurable to use one of multiple communication profiles.