VEHICLE MAINTENANCE EVENT REPORTING METHOD
First Claim
1. A method of providing vehicle information to an owner or other recipient, comprising the steps of:
- electronically detecting a maintenance service event on a vehicle;
establishing a communication session between a telematics unit on the vehicle and a central data system;
reporting the maintenance service event over the communication session; and
sending a notification message to a recipient in response to the reported maintenance service event.
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Abstract
A vehicle maintenance event reporting system and method that utilizes a vehicle email notification system in which triggers are used to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email notifications are triggered by different events, some of which are independent of the vehicle (e.g., a monthly trigger), and others of which occur at the vehicle, such as a mileage or low oil life trigger. The notification system builds and sends to the subscriber an email message that contains the dynamic vehicle information. Maintenance service events such as an oil change reset are detected and used to trigger email reporting to the subscriber as well as to transmit the oil change reset event back to a central data system where it is included in a vehicle maintenance record.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of providing vehicle information to an owner or other recipient, comprising the steps of:
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electronically detecting a maintenance service event on a vehicle;
establishing a communication session between a telematics unit on the vehicle and a central data system;
reporting the maintenance service event over the communication session; and
sending a notification message to a recipient in response to the reported maintenance service event. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of providing vehicle maintenance information, comprising the steps of:
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electronically detecting a maintenance service event on a vehicle;
establishing a communication session between a telematics unit on the vehicle and a central data system;
reporting the maintenance service event over the communication session; and
recording the maintenance service event in a maintenance record for the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of providing vehicle information to an owner or other recipient, comprising the steps of:
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detecting an oil change reset on a vehicle equipped to electronically determine a remaining oil life;
setting a trigger in the vehicle in response to the oil change reset;
detecting occurrence of the trigger;
establishing a communication session between a telematics unit on the vehicle and a central data system in response to the occurrence of the trigger;
transmitting vehicle data from the vehicle to the central data system over the communication session; and
automatically generating and sending an email message utilizing at least some of the dynamic vehicle data by executing one or more centralized software-controlled processes that carry out the steps of;
incorporating received dynamic vehicle data into an email message along with static vehicle data and one or more predetermined textual messages; and
sending the email out over a global public computer network using an electronic messaging system. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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