Patent ID: 7246007

Claim:
A method of reporting information from a vehicle to a vehicle data collection system, comprising: storing information which defines a geographic region in a vehicle, the geographic region comprising a predetermined array of cells, each cell having a cell position; associating a plurality of cell parameters with each cell, the cell parameters comprising a recording interval and a reporting interval; determining a vehicle position relative to the geographic region, wherein if the vehicle is within the geographic region, the vehicle position is correlated to a vehicle cell; recording vehicle data in accordance with the recording interval of the vehicle cell; and reporting the vehicle data to a vehicle data collection system in accordance with the reporting interval; repeating said steps of determining the vehicle position, recording the vehicle data and reporting the vehicle data for a plurality of cycles; and, updating the information which defines the geographic region; wherein the geographic region comprises a plurality of geographic regions and the method may be selectively enabled or disabled for each geographic region.