Method and system for vehicle data upload

• US 7,010,289 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2002
• Issued: 03/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Inventors: Stefan, Jeffrey M., Jijina, Jasmin, Abeska, Edward J., Kacel, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): GELIN, JEAN ALLAND
• Application Number:
  US10/154,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20040203696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/35, 701117-119, 701/200, 701/123, 701/29, 701/201, 701/202, 701/209, 701/210, 340/905, 340/934, 340/992, 340/995.13, 340/870.01, 340/870.16, 340/435, 340/903, 340/539, 455/423, 455/426.1, 455/412.1, 455/412.2
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network

Abstract

The invention provides a method for vehicle data upload by activating at least one action trigger as a function of a vehicle communication unit, collecting at least one attribute data within a mobile vehicle, transmitting the attribute data from the vehicle communication unit to a mobile network intelligence, determining a second attribute data, producing a second action trigger, transmitting the second action trigger from the mobile network intelligence to the vehicle communication unit, and overwriting the action trigger as the second action trigger.

Claims

1. A method for vehicle data upload comprising:

activating at least one action trigger as a function of a vehicle communication unit, wherein the action trigger is an event trigger selected from a group consisting of a storage trigger, a continuous monitoring trigger, a collection trigger, a upload trigger, and a enhanced continuous monitoring trigger;

collecting at least one attribute data within a mobile vehicle as a function of the action trigger;

transmitting the attribute data from the vehicle communication unit to a mobile network intelligence;

determining a second attribute data as a function of the attribute data;

producing a second action trigger as a function of the second attribute data;

transmitting the second action trigger from the mobile network intelligence to the vehicle communication unit; and

overwriting the action trigger as a function of the second action trigger.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the action trigger is a storage trigger.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the action trigger is an upload trigger.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the upload trigger is a function of an attribute in communication with a mobile vehicle communication center.

5. A method for vehicle data unload comprising:

activating at least one action trigger as a function of a vehicle communication unit, wherein the action trigger is a data trigger selected from a group consisting of minutes, kilometers, ignition on, ignition off, number of ignition cycles, timestamp, days, and miles;

collecting at least one attribute data within a mobile vehicle as a function of the action trigger;

transmitting the attribute data from the vehicle communication unit to a mobile network intelligence;

determining a second attribute data as a function of the attribute data;

producing a second action trigger as a function of the second attribute data;

transmitting the second action trigger from the mobile network intelligence to the vehicle communication unit; and

overwriting the action trigger as a function of the second action trigger.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the action trigger is a storage trigger.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the action trigger is an upload trigger.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the upload trigger is a function of an attribute in communication with a mobile vehicle communication center.

9. A method for vehicle data upload comprising:

generating a route at a call center, the route comprising road information and maneuver instructions;

determining a current vehicle location and heading;

receiving truncated current vehicle location and heading information from the vehicle, wherein the truncated current vehicle location comprises a vehicle location modified by at least one method to improve record payload efficiency wherein the at least one method to improve record payload efficiency is selected from the group consisting of truncating leading, trailing and empty field zeros, sinusoids of angles, data relative to an initial point of reference within an ignition cycle, choice of compression/tokenization schemes, data stripping and adding tokenization algorithms during upload or download;

determining a need for a large payload vehicle data upload; and

receiving a large payload vehicle data upload in response to the determination.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein determining a need for a large payload comprises map matching.