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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2004
Applicant:
Matt C. Videtich, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Inventor:
Matt C. Videtich, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); G01M 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A targeted message is sent to a mobile vehicle using a satellite broadcast system. A satellite broadcast message including a vehicle identification tag and the targeted message is received at the mobile vehicle. A determination is made on whether to play the targeted message at the mobile vehicle based on the vehicle identification tag, and the targeted message is played based on the determination. A system for sending a targeted message to a mobile vehicle and related computer programming code are also disclosed.