Method and system for monitoring vehicles
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for monitoring a vehicle that features the steps of: 1) generating a data packet including vehicle data retrieved from the vehicle using a wireless appliance; 2) transmitting the data packet over an airlink with the wireless appliance so that the data packet passes through a network and to a host computer system; 3) processing the data packet with the host computer system to generate a set of data; and 4) displaying the set of data on a web page hosted on the internet.
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50 Claims
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1-30. -30. (canceled)
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31. A method, comprising:
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(a) acquiring vehicle data comprising numerical diagnostic data or location-based data associated with the vehicle; (b) processing the vehicle data according to a mathematical algorithm to generate derived diagnostic or location information that is at least in part derived from the acquired vehicle data, and wherein the derived information has a meaning distinct from the acquired vehicle data; (c) formatting the derived diagnostic or location information for an application running on a wireless device, wherein the application can provide the derived diagnostic or location information associated with the vehicle for presentation with an interface, wherein the interface includes at least one of an icon and a data field associated with derived information indicative of a system of the vehicle to perform maintenance on, and (d) wirelessly transmitting the derived information in a communication. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computer system configured to perform a method, the method comprising:
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(a) acquiring vehicle data comprising numerical diagnostic data or location-based data associated with a vehicle; (b) processing the vehicle data according to a mathematical algorithm to generate derived diagnostic or location information that is at least in part derived from the acquired vehicle data, and wherein the derived information has a meaning distinct from the acquired vehicle data; (c) formatting the derived diagnostic or location information for an application running on a wireless device, wherein the application can provide the derived diagnostic or location information associated with the vehicle for presentation with an interface, wherein the interface includes at least one of an icon and a data field associated with derived information indicative of a system of the vehicle to perform maintenance on, and (d) wirelessly transmitting the derived information in a communication. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A graphical user interface running on a wireless device for displaying derived diagnostic or location information corresponding to a vehicle wherein the derived diagnostic or location information displayed by the graphical user interface includes diagnostic or location information wirelessly transmitted by a vehicle computer system in the vehicle that acquires diagnostic and location vehicle data generated thereby, and wherein the diagnostic or location vehicle data is processed according to a mathematical algorithm, and wherein the information comprises at least one of vehicle status reports and vehicle service recommendations to generate the derived information so that it has a meaning distinct from the acquired diagnostic and location vehicle data,
wherein the graphical user includes at least one of an icon and data field associated with derived information indicative of a system of the vehicle to perform, maintenance on.
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