Patent ID: 7996235
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for acquiring marketing information from a marketing call center, the method comprising: via a processor associated with a vehicle telematics unit, receiving a personal calling bundle in the vehicle telematics unit, wherein the vehicle telematics unit is a vehicle module; via the vehicle telematics unit processor, setting a marketing information trigger in the vehicle telematics unit, the marketing information trigger based on a depletion or an expiration of the personal calling bundle; the vehicle telematics unit processor determining when the depletion or the expiration of the personal calling bundle has occurred; automatically initiating, via the vehicle telematics unit and without user manual operation, a call to a telematics call center, the call including data representative of a usage of the personal calling bundle; and upon analyzing the data, transferring the call to the marketing call center so that the telematics unit acquires the marketing information from the marketing call center in response to an occurrence of the depletion or the expiration of the personal calling bundle.