Vehicle data acquisition system and method
First Claim
1. A vehicle data acquisition method for analyzing vehicle conditions, the method comprising the acts of:
- identifying, by a vehicle-external computer, a plurality of vehicles having a first characteristic profile shared by each of said plurality of vehicles, wherein said identifying uses vehicle-specific identification data stored in a database external to the vehicles;
querying, by the vehicle-external computer and in response to said identifying, vehicle data from each of the identified plurality of vehicles sharing the first characteristic profile by way of a wireless communication system;
receiving the queried vehicle data via the wireless communication system by the vehicle-external computer; and
evaluating the received vehicle data to analyze the plurality of vehicles each having the first characteristic profile.
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Abstract
A vehicle data acquisition system and method are provided for the analysis of vehicle conditions. A vehicle-external communication device, a vehicle-internal communication device, a vehicle-external computer and a vehicle-external databank are utilized. For providing an informative vehicle data acquisition system, on the basis of the data in the vehicle-external databank, the vehicle-external computer identifies those vehicles which have a first characteristic profile. The vehicle-external computer queries vehicle data from the identified vehicles by way of the vehicle-external and the vehicle-internal communication devices, and the vehicle-external computer evaluates the queried and received vehicle data for the analysis of vehicles having the first characteristic profile.
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13 Claims
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1. A vehicle data acquisition method for analyzing vehicle conditions, the method comprising the acts of:
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identifying, by a vehicle-external computer, a plurality of vehicles having a first characteristic profile shared by each of said plurality of vehicles, wherein said identifying uses vehicle-specific identification data stored in a database external to the vehicles; querying, by the vehicle-external computer and in response to said identifying, vehicle data from each of the identified plurality of vehicles sharing the first characteristic profile by way of a wireless communication system; receiving the queried vehicle data via the wireless communication system by the vehicle-external computer; and evaluating the received vehicle data to analyze the plurality of vehicles each having the first characteristic profile. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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