Patent ID: 7596370

Claim:
A method of managing user nametags for a vehicle communications system, the method comprising: receiving a nametag transfer request at a call center from a source vehicle, comprising: receiving a selection of a source vehicle nametag data file to be transferred from the source vehicle to a target vehicle; receiving a source vehicle identification; and receiving a target vehicle identification; determining the target vehicle associated with the source vehicle based on the request, comprising: matching the target vehicle identification with a target vehicle data in a database in the call center; and retrieving an acoustic profile of the target vehicle and a target vehicle speech recognition identifier based on the matching; and modifying the source vehicle nametag data file based on the acoustic profile of the target vehicle, wherein modifying the source vehicle nametag data file based on the acoustic profile of the target vehicle comprises: matching the source vehicle identification with a source vehicle data in a database in the call center; retrieving an acoustic profile of the source vehicle, a source vehicle speech recognition identifier, and the source vehicle nametag data file from the source vehicle data; determining if the acoustic profile of the target vehicle matches the acoustic profile of the source vehicle; removing acoustic characteristics of the source vehicle from the retrieved selected source vehicle nametag data file based on the acoustic profile determination; adding acoustic characteristics of the target vehicle to the selected source vehicle nametag data file; determining if the target vehicle speech recognition identifier matches the source vehicle speech recognition identifier; and modifying the selected source vehicle nametag data file of the source vehicle based upon the determination.