Patent ID: 8855575

Claim:
A device-vehicle interoperability verification method, comprising: obtaining vehicle information by a mobile communications device, the vehicle information pertaining to a vehicle within which the mobile communications device is being used or is going to be used; transmitting i) the vehicle information and ii) mobile communications device identification information from the mobile communications device to a server, the transmitting occurring in response to a command generated by an application resident on the device, the application including computer readable code, embedded on a tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium, for performing the transmitting; by a data aggregator at the server, querying a database to obtain data pertaining to an interoperability between the mobile communications device and the vehicle, the interoperability including an ability of any of a feature or a function of the mobile communications device to work when i) used in the vehicle, ii) connected to the vehicle, or iii) both used in and connected to the vehicle; and sending a message to the mobile communications device by a communications module at the server, the message including at least the data pertaining to the interoperability between the mobile communications device and the vehicle.