Diagnostic tool with a plurality of operating systems

• US 9,202,319 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch Automotive Service Solutions LLC (SPX Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions LLC (SPX Corporation)
• Inventors: Chinnadurai, Manokar, Selkirk, Reed
• Primary Examiner(s): CAMBY, RICHARD M
• Application Number:
  US13/841,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20140277922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 701/33.4, 701/33.3, 701/33.2, 701/34.3, 701/31.4, 701/34.4
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005

Abstract

A diagnostic tool may include a user interface operating system comprising a computer processor that operates in a first operating environment. The diagnostic tool may also include a vehicle diagnostic operating system comprising a computer processor that operates in a second operating environment, wherein the second operating environment is different from the first operating environment.

Claims

1. A diagnostic tool, comprising:

a processor that operates the diagnostic tool;

a user interface operating system comprising a plurality of operating environments corresponding to operating systems of external devices, wherein the user interface operating system determines an external device'"'"'s operating system and selects an operating environment from said plurality of operating environments corresponding to the operating system of the external device; and

a vehicle diagnostic operating system that includes real time operating systems that serve application requests from the user interface operating system, wherein the application requests include a request to perform a diagnostic test.

2. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the operating environment is the same operating environment as the external device that is coupled to the diagnostic tool.

3. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the operating environment includes at least one of the following operating environments:

iOS, Android, Window 8, Window RT or Blackberry 10.

4. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the real time operating systems include at least one of the following real time operating systems:

Linux, Unix, QNX, or VxWorks.

5. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the user interface operating system comprises a graphical user interface operating with the external device.

6. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the user interface operating system further comprises a vehicle diagnostic database.

7. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the vehicle diagnostic operating system comprises a data manager coupled to the user interface operating system.

8. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the vehicle diagnostic operating system further comprises a database coordinator for managing a database of the user interface operating system.

9. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the vehicle diagnostic operating system further comprises a protocol data unit (PDU) server for processing data received from the user interface operating system.

10. The diagnostic tool of claim 9, wherein the protocol data unit (PDU) server is configured to add additional information to the data received from the user interface operating system.

11. The diagnostic tool of claim 9, wherein the protocol data unit (PDU) server is configured to convert data received from the user interface operation system from a first protocol to a second protocol.

12. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein the vehicle diagnostic operating system further comprises host drivers.

13. The diagnostic tool of claim 1, wherein vehicle diagnostic operating system further comprises firmware.

14. A diagnostic tool comprising:

a user interface operating system comprising;

a plurality of operating environments corresponding to operating systems of external devices, wherein the user interface operating system determines an external device'"'"'s operating system and selects an operating environment from the plurality of operating environments that corresponds to the determine operating system of the external device; and

a computer processor that operates in a first operating environment,

wherein the first operating environment corresponds to the determined operating system of the external device coupled to the diagnostic tool; and

a vehicle diagnostic operating system comprising a computer processor that operates in a second operating environment, wherein the second operating environment is different from the first operating environment.

15. The diagnostic tool of claim 14, wherein the first operating environment includes at least one of the following operating environments:

iOS, Android, Window 8, Window RT or Blackberry 10.

16. The diagnostic tool of claim 14, wherein the second operating environment includes at least one of the following operating environments:

Linux, Unix, QNX, or VxWorks.

17. The diagnostic tool of claim 14, wherein the user interface operating system comprises a graphical user interface operating in the first operating environment.

18. The diagnostic tool of claim 14, wherein the vehicle diagnostic operating system further comprises a protocol data unit (PDU) server for processing data received from the user interface operating system.

19. The diagnostic tool of claim 18, wherein the protocol data unit (PDU) server is configured to convert the data received from the user interface operation system from a first protocol to a second protocol.