Vehicle Service Equipment Interface Drivers
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1. An improved vehicle service system having a processing system, the improvement comprising:
- wherein the processing system is configured with a support binary for providing support functionality to at least one vehicle service software driver, said support functionality including management of Plug-and-Play (PnP) requirements and Power Management requirements; and
wherein said support binary is independent from said supported vehicle service software driver.
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Abstract
A vehicle service system including a processing system configured with at least one customized software driver and a supporting binary to facilitate interaction with, and control of, the various software applications and hardware devices associated with the vehicle service system.
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1. An improved vehicle service system having a processing system, the improvement comprising:
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wherein the processing system is configured with a support binary for providing support functionality to at least one vehicle service software driver, said support functionality including management of Plug-and-Play (PnP) requirements and Power Management requirements; and
wherein said support binary is independent from said supported vehicle service software driver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An improved vehicle service system having a processing system, the improvement comprising:
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wherein the processing system is configured with a support binary adapted to provide support to at least one vehicle service driver; and
wherein the said support binary and said vehicle service driver are executed in a user mode process.
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14. An improved vehicle service system having a processing system, the improvement comprising:
wherein the processing system is configured to support at least one software event tracing framework. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. An improved vehicle service system having a processing system, the improvement comprising:
wherein the processing system is configured with a method to communicate an event report to a remote system upon occurrence of a software driver fault. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A method for data communication within a vehicle service system having a processing system configured with at least one vehicle service software driver and at least one hardware component, comprising:
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effecting a first set of interactions between said processing system and said hardware component with a support binary component; and
effecting a second set of interactions between said processing system and said hardware component with a vehicle service software driver associated with said hardware component.
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