Patent ID: 8639234

Claim:
A system for processing vehicle communications, comprising: a vehicle telematics unit that sends and receives wireless communications and includes a multimedia messaging service (MMS) client located on a vehicle; and a vehicle component that is coupled to the vehicle telematics unit, wherein, in response to the vehicle telematics unit receiving a wireless communication in the form of an MMS message having a payload section, the MMS client: i) processes the MMS message and extracts a first MMS message part and a second MMS message part from the payload section; ii) evaluates the vehicle component and determines its ability to process the first MMS message part or the second MMS message part; iii) applies a first set of rules to the first MMS message part and a second set of rules to the second MMS message part; and iv) sends the first MMS message part to the vehicle component based on the first set of rules and the second MMS message part to a second vehicle component based on the second set of rules.