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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2008
Timothy R. Nixon, Northville, MI (US);
Gregory B. Stewart, Northville, MI (US);
Timothy R. Nixon, Northville, MI (US);
Gregory B. Stewart, Northville, MI (US);
General Motors LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An address book sharing system includes a vehicle, a short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit embedded in the vehicle, and a short-range enabled wireless device. The short-range enabled wireless device is configured to be paired with the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit when positioned in the vehicle, and to download an address book to the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit in response to an address book request trigger generated by the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit. Methods for non-verbally adding address book contents using the address book sharing system are also disclosed herein.