Patent ID: 8521235

Claim:
A method for non-verbally adding address book contents to an in-vehicle address book, the method comprising: programming a short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit with a wireless device ID that will be recognizable by the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit so that non-designated wireless device IDs are not recognizable by the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit; positioning a short-range enabled wireless device in a vehicle containing the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit; determining, by the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit, that a wireless device ID of the short-range enabled wireless device is the recognizable wireless device ID; pairing the short-range enabled wireless device with the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit; generating an address book request trigger from the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit; downloading, in response to the address book request trigger, contents of an address book from the short-range enabled wireless device to the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit; storing the downloaded contents of the address book in the in-vehicle address book; and subsequently allowing user access to the in-vehicle address book only when the short-range enabled wireless device is within proximity of the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit.