Abstract: An in-vehicle personalized location-based secure ordering and payment system, comprising means to match a GPS location of a vehicle to a location of a merchant, means to automatically launch an application on a computing device of the vehicle that allows a vehicle occupant to order at least one item for sale by the merchant and send the order to a server, means to authorize the server to make a secure payment to the merchant for the order, and means to send identifying information of the recipient of the ordered items to the merchant for use in fulfilling the order.

Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for authenticating access to a vehicle, where vehicle events, such as a door lock condition or an operating condition of the vehicle, are reported to an authentication network. Vehicle events are compared to a vehicle schedule to determine if the vehicle events comply with the schedule using authentication rules. If the events are not compliant, an authentication request signal, requiring a predetermined authentication response, is transmitted to the vehicle. Access to the vehicle may be denied until a match to the predetermined authentication response is received. Authentication may include the use of a portable device, which may act as an intermediary between the vehicle and the authentication system. Vehicle events may further be reported to the portable device. Authentication rules may be updated automatically based on further incoming vehicle events, or may be updated manually using a computer.

Abstract: A system and method for correcting speech input are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving a base input string; detecting a correction operation; receiving a replacement string in response to the correction operation; generating a base object set from the base input string and a replacement object set from the replacement string; identifying a matching base object of the base object set that is most phonetically similar to a replacement object of the replacement object set; and replacing the matching base object with the replacement object in the base input string.

Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for authenticating access to a vehicle, where vehicle events, such as a door lock condition or an operating condition of the vehicle, are reported to an authentication network. Vehicle events are compared to a vehicle schedule to determine if the vehicle events comply with the schedule using authentication rules. If the events are not compliant, an authentication request signal, requiring a predetermined authentication response, is transmitted to the vehicle. Access to the vehicle may be denied until a match to the predetermined authentication response is received. Authentication may include the use of a portable device, which may act as an intermediary between the vehicle and the authentication system. Vehicle events may further be reported to the portable device. Authentication rules may be updated automatically based on further incoming vehicle events, or may be updated manually using a computer.

Abstract: An in-vehicle personalized location-based secure ordering and payment system, comprising means to match a GPS location of a vehicle to a location of a merchant, means to automatically launch an application on a computing device of the vehicle that allows a vehicle occupant to order at least one item for sale by the merchant and send the order to a server, means to authorize the server to make a secure payment to the merchant for the order, and means to send identifying information of the recipient of the ordered items to the merchant for use in fulfilling the order.