Patent ID: 8300662

Claim:
A system for communicating wirelessly from an in-vehicle system (IVS) to an answering point device, the system comprising: an answering point device configured to monitor for an initiation signal from the IVS; said IVS configured to wirelessly transmit an initiation signal to the answering point device; upon receiving the initiation signal from the IVS, said answering point device configured to continuously transmit a trigger signal to the IVS to trigger communication from the IVS to the answering point device; while receiving the trigger signal, said IVS configured to transmit a plurality of encoded packets as a series of bursts, wherein each burst in the series of bursts is associated with a burst number; the answering point device configured to: receive and decode said packets, wherein the answering point device blind detects a burst number associated with a given burst and decodes the given burst using the blind-detected burst number determine if the decoded packets provide a complete set of source data; and upon determining that the decoded packets provide a complete set of source data, indicate to the IVS that a complete set of source data has been received.