Patent ID: 8543170

Claim:
A method of operating a telematics device within a mobile vehicle communication system associated with a mobile vehicle, comprising: receiving at the telematics device requests to initiate communication; identifying a request type for each received request at the telematics device; determining whether an identified request type corresponds to a service type within a service type table, wherein the service type table includes a mapping of one or more request types to one or more corresponding service types within the service type table; in response to determining an identified request type of a received request corresponds to a service type within the service type table, determining at the telematics device a service type number associated with the corresponding service type and out-pulsing the service type number; and in response to determining an identified request type of a received request does not correspond to a service type within the service type table, out-pulsing the received request to initiate the communication; wherein the service type number associated with the corresponding service type is stored in the service type table and is updated prior to the determining the service type number at the telematics device.