Patent ID: 7778213

Claim:
Method for selectively communicating from a remote system to a subset of a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle equipped with a first wireless communications receiver and a second wireless communications device comprising: broadcasting a common message from the remote system to a plurality of vehicles that are shutdown and parked within a predefined geographic location, the common message including a communications channel designator, a selection parameter type, and parametric data corresponding to the selection parameter type; receiving the common message at each vehicle via the respective first wireless communications receiver; selecting a subset of the plurality of vehicles comprising activating the second wireless communications device within ones of the plurality of vehicles that have respective vehicle information matching the parametric data corresponding to the selection parameter type for communication with the remote system; and communicating between the remote system and the respective second wireless communications device of each of the vehicles in the selected subset on a communications channel corresponding to the communications channel designator to transmit formatted electronic data therebetween.