Patent ID: 7356389

Claim:
A vehicle data services communication system for uploading data to a vehicle, said communication system comprising: an uplink communication path configured for wireless link transmissions of data to at least one vehicle, said communication path including: a primary network operations center (NOC) communicatively coupleable to the at least one vehicle and having a data source, wherein said NOC manages configuration control and distribution of data contained in said data source; one or more primary base stations operatively connected to said primary NOC, wherein said primary NOC is adapted to dynamically assign or de-assign said base stations to said at least one vehicle by to allow communication of the data between the primary NOC and said at least one vehicle; a vehicle Local Area Network (LAN) located in said at least one vehicle and having a plurality of disparate vehicle network devices that can be operatively connected to said primary NOC; and one or more input and output antenna configurations at vehicle and base station ends of the communication path, wherein said antenna configurations support any number of wireless spread spectrum modulation schemes that can be used to transmit data to said at least one vehicle.