Patent ID: 7450030

Claim:
A method for authorizing, in a motor vehicle, provision of a telematics service to said vehicle via a mobile radio link between a telematics controller in the motor vehicle and an external telematics center, said telematics controller being provided to said vehicle by a first source, and said mobile radio link being provided to said telematics controller by a second source that is different from said first source, wherein said method comprises: said first source providing the telematics center with first data from a first database maintained by said first source, which first data includes an identification of the motor vehicle; said second source providing the telematics center with second data from a second database maintained by said second source, which second data identifies the mobile radio link; and the telematics center associating the data that identifies the motor vehicle with the data that identifies the mobile radio link, and automatically authorizing the provision of telematics service to said vehicle via said mobile radio link.