Patent ID: 8468097

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: transceiver circuitry including receiver circuitry and transmitter circuitry; a memory storing predetermined authorized facility information and instructions; a controller coupled to the receiver circuitry and to the memory, the instructions, when executed by the controller, cause the controller to perform the steps of: receiving information via the receiver circuitry transmitted by an association requestor, wherein the information received by the receiver circuitry includes service set identifier information corresponding to one or more authorized facilities, generating a range of authorized facility parameters by generating operating times during which the authorized facility is open for business in response to the service set identifier information, determining whether the association requestor is an authorized facility by determining whether a present parameter that is measured by the controller falls within the range of authorized facility parameters in response to the predetermined authorized facility information, wherein determining whether the present parameter falls within a range of authorized facility parameters comprises determining whether a present time is within the operating times during which the authorized facility is open for business, and providing vehicle specific information to the transmitter circuitry for forwarding to the authorized facility only when the controller has determined that the present parameter falls within the range of authorized facility parameters.