Patent ID: 7881251

Claim:
A communications system for providing wireless communication between a vehicle and one or more remote entities, comprising: a vehicle communications device located on the vehicle; a remote entity located some distance from the vehicle; and a wireless carrier system that communicates with both said vehicle communications device and said remote entity so that information can be wirelessly exchanged therebetween; wherein said vehicle communications device, said remote entity, and said wireless carrier system communicate over a network configured with a TCP/IP protocol stack having a data link layer, a network layer, a transport layer, and an application layer, said application layer includes a first sub-layer utilizing a SOAP protocol, a second sub-layer utilizing a MIME protocol, and a third sub-layer utilizing a non-HTTP lightweight protocol that maintains an established session in an open status while a plurality of request and response messages are transmitted between said vehicle communications device and said remote entity without closing said established session down.