Patent ID: 8732405

Claim:
A method of operating a predictive data cache, the steps comprising: (a) determining whether a service response to a present request for telematics services is stored at a predictive data cache of a telematics service provider upon receiving the present request from a vehicle telematics unit, wherein the subject matter of the present request includes at least one of an event description, an event period, and an event location; (b) determining a probability value associated with the present request based on the subject matter of the present request and the subject matter of one or more past requests for telematics services stored in a telematics service provider database; (c) ranking the present request based on the probability value relative to the probability values of other previously-received requests for telematics services; (d) identifying a predetermined number of the most-frequently occurring ranked requests for telematics services; and (e) updating the predictive data cache with the subject matter of the present request and the associated service response to the present request when the ranking of the present request is one of the most-frequently occurring ranked requests.