Patent ID: 8868427

Claim:
A method of updating electronic calendar information, comprising the steps of: providing at least one server that is remotely located with respect to a vehicle having a vehicle telematics unit (VTU), the at least one server being in communication with a vehicle call center equipped to provide back-end services to the vehicle, wherein the at least one server stores instructions for an internet-enabled calendaring application comprising a plurality of electronic calendars, each electronic calendar having data fields associated with one or more of: user appointments, user contacts, user business information, and user personal information; receiving at the VTU, from a first user located in the vehicle, speech representative of information related to a particular vehicle trip, wherein the first user is a subscriber to the internet-enabled calendaring application having access to a first electronic calendar; recording the received speech in the VTU as a voice memo; converting the voice memo to converted-text data using speech recognition, wherein the converting step occurs at the vehicle prior to the transmitting step or at the call center after the transmitting step; and transmitting one of with the voice memo or the converted-text data from the VTU using cellular communication to the at least one server; associating without human interaction the converted-text data with one or more data fields in the first electronic calendar, wherein the associating step includes: identifying which of the one or more data fields to modify based at least partially on: (a) a time and date stamp of the voice memo; and (b) the converted-text data; based on the identifying step, determining which of the one or more data fields of the first electronic calendar should be updated; storing the converted-text data in at least one of the one or more data fields; and providing internet access to the first electronic calendar to a second user, wherein the second user also has internet access to other electronic calendars associated with different users.