DYNAMIC VEHICLE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

• US 20100082702A1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Ramanathan, Jijji, Iyer, Vidhyashankaran Ramamoorthy, Siddique, Mohamed, Pais, Brayan
• Application Number:
  US12/240,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20100082702A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

A method for dynamically managing data changes to a vehicle health monitoring system (VHM) by a datacenter using an external agent is provided. The external agent is operational on, or in communication with, a vehicle. One of updating or modifying a vehicle configuration file is performed to add or delete vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file by the external agent. A dummy file is created on a disk by the external agent. The dummy file provides a signal to the datacenter that the vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file has changed. The disk is polled periodically by the datacenter to identify a presence of the dummy file. Responsive to identifying the presence of the dummy file, the configuration file is read into VHM memory by the datacenter.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically managing data changes to a vehicle health monitoring system (VHM) by a datacenter using an external agent, the external agent operational on, or in communication with, a vehicle, the method comprising:

performing one of updating or modifying a vehicle configuration file to add or delete vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file by the external agent;

creating a dummy file on a disk by the external agent, wherein the dummy file provides a signal to the datacenter that the vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file has changed;

polling the disk periodically by the datacenter to identify a presence of the dummy file;

responsive to identifying the presence of the dummy file, reading the configuration file into VHM memory by the datacenter.

2. The method of claim 1, further including notifying a user by the datacenter that the configuration file has changed.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by a first application.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the polling the disk periodically by the datacenter to identify the presence of the dummy file is performed by a second application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by the external agent at a local site to the datacenter at a remote site.

6. A method for dynamically managing data changes to a vehicle health monitoring system (VHM) by a datacenter using an external agent, the external agent operational on, or in communication with, a vehicle, the method comprising:

performing one of updating or modifying a vehicle configuration file by the external agent to add or delete vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file;

setting a system variable to a predefined value by the external agent, wherein the predefined value of the system variable provides a signal to the datacenter that the vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file has changed;

polling the system variable periodically by the datacenter to identify the predefined value;

responsive to identifying the predefined value, reading the configuration file into VHM memory by the datacenter.

7. The method of claim 6, further including notifying a user by the datacenter that the configuration file has changed.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by a first application.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the polling the system variable periodically by the datacenter to identify the predefined value is performed by a second application.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by the external agent at a local site to the datacenter at a remote site.

11. A method for dynamically managing data changes to a vehicle health monitoring system (VHM) by a datacenter using an external agent, the external agent operational on, or in communication with, a vehicle, the method comprising:

performing one of updating or modifying a vehicle configuration file by the external agent to add or delete vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file;

sending a user-defined signal from the external agent to the datacenter, wherein the user-defined signal includes at least one of a unique process name and identification;

receiving the user-defined signal in the datacenter, wherein the datacenter identifies the user-defined signal based on the at least one unique process name and identification; and

responsive to receiving the user-defined signal in the datacenter, reading the configuration file into VHM memory.

12. The method of claim 11, further including notifying a user by the datacenter that the configuration file has changed.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by a first application.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the receiving the user-defined signal is performed by a second application.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by the external agent at a local site to the datacenter at a remote site.

16. A method for dynamically managing data changes to a vehicle health monitoring system (VHM) by a datacenter using an external agent, the external agent operational on, or in communication with, a vehicle, the method comprising:

performing one of updating or modifying a vehicle configuration file by the external agent to add or delete vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file, wherein a timestamp is recorded on the vehicle configuration file concurrent with the one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file;

polling the timestamp periodically by the datacenter to identify a newer time associated with the timestamp; and

responsive to identifying the newer time, reading the configuration file into VHM memory.

17. The method of claim 16, further including notifying a user by the datacenter that the configuration file has changed.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by a first application.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the polling the timestamp periodically by the datacenter is performed by a second application.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the performing one of updating or modifying the vehicle configuration file is performed by the external agent at a local site to the datacenter at a remote site.