Patent ID: 7986914

Claim:
A communications system, comprising: a media system of a vehicle for presenting at least one of visual information and audio information to a user; a communications component for receiving an IP-based personal message wirelessly from a cell phone, via unlicensed wireless radio frequency (RF) signals, for presentation via the media system; a text-to-voice converter component; and an IP multimedia subsystem of a cellular network configured to register the cell phone with the text-to-voice converter component by: receiving a first registration request from the cell phone; subsequent to receiving the first registration request, registering the cell phone with the IP multimedia subsystem; transmitting to the cell phone a confirmation of registration of the cell phone to the IP multimedia subsystem; subsequent to receiving the first registration request, submitting a second registration request to the text-to-voice converter component with respect to the cell phone; subsequent to submitting the second registration request to the text-to-voice converter component with respect to the cell phone, receiving confirmation from the text-to-voice converter component of registration of the cell phone to the text-to-voice converter component; receiving a first subscribe request from the cell phone; subsequent to receiving the first subscribe request from the cell phone, submitting a second subscribe request to the text-to-voice converter component with respect to the cell phone; subsequent to submitting the second subscribe request to the text-to-voice converter component with respect to the cell phone, receiving a second subscription notification with respect to the cell phone from the text-to-voice converter component; and subsequent to receiving the second subscription notice from the text-to-voice converter component with respect to the cell phone, transmitting a first subscription notice to the cell phone.