Internet-based system for monitoring vehicles
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1. A method for monitoring a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- i) generating a data packet from the vehicle using a wireless appliance, the data packet comprising numerical diagnostic data from a computer in the vehicle;
ii) 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;
iii) processing the data packet with the host computer system to generate numerical diagnostic data; and
iv) displaying the numerical diagnostic data on a web site hosted on the internet, the web site comprising a series of pages corresponding to individual vehicles and a series of pages corresponding to a group of 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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1. A method for monitoring a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
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i) generating a data packet from the vehicle using a wireless appliance, the data packet comprising numerical diagnostic data from a computer in the vehicle;
ii) 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;
iii) processing the data packet with the host computer system to generate numerical diagnostic data; and
iv) displaying the numerical diagnostic data on a web site hosted on the internet, the web site comprising a series of pages corresponding to individual vehicles and a series of pages corresponding to a group of vehicles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for monitoring a set of vehicles, comprising the steps of:
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i) generating a first data packet from a first vehicle in the set of vehicles using a first wireless appliance disposed in the first vehicle, the first data packet comprising numerical diagnostic data from a computer in the first vehicle;
ii) transmitting the first data packet over an airlink with the first wireless appliance so that the first data packet passes through a network and to a host computer system;
iii) generating a second data packet from a second vehicle in the set of vehicles using a second wireless appliance disposed in the second vehicle, the second data packet comprising numerical diagnostic data from a computer in the second vehicle;
iv) transmitting the second data packet over an airlink with the wireless appliance so that the second data packet passes through the network and to the host computer system;
v) processing the first and second data packets with the host computer system to generate numerical diagnostic data corresponding to the first and second vehicles;
vi) displaying the numerical diagnostic data corresponding to the first vehicle on a first series of web pages hosted on the internet; and
vii) displaying the numerical diagnostic data corresponding to the first and second vehicles on a second series of web pages hosted on the internet, the first and second series of web pages being comprised by a single web site. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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