CONNECTED VEHICLE PREDICTIVE QUALITY

• US 20150356794A1
• Filed: 06/05/2014
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Prakah-Asante, Kwaku O., Rao, Manoharprasad K., Le, Jialiang, Yang, Hsin-hsiang, MacNeille, Perry Robinson
• Application Number:
  US14/297,520
• Publication Number:
  US 20150356794A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B

Abstract

A vehicle system includes a communication interface and a processing device. The processing device is configured to receive performance data associated with at least one of a plurality of vehicle subsystems and generate a message that includes the performance data. The communication interface is configured to transmit the message to a remote aggregation server. The remote aggregation server is configured to receive the performance data from multiple vehicles, aggregate the performance data, and identify a trend associated with various vehicle subsystems based at least in part on the performance data.

Claims

1. A vehicle system comprising:

a communication interface; and

a processing device configured to receive performance data associated with at least one of a plurality of vehicle subsystems and generate a message that includes the performance data,

wherein the communication interface is configured to transmit the message to a remote aggregation server.

2. The vehicle system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface device configured to receive a user input.

3. The vehicle system of claim 2, wherein the processing device is configured to generate the message in response to the user input.

4. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the performance data includes at least one system performance condition associated with at least one of the plurality of vehicle subsystems.

5. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the communication interface is configured to communicate with the remote aggregation server over a communication network.

6. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the communication interface is configured to receive a trend message from the remote aggregation server, the trend message identifying a trend associated with at least one of the plurality of vehicle subsystems.

7. The vehicle system of claim 6, further comprising a user interface device configured to present the trend message.

8. The vehicle system of claim 1, further comprising at least one sensor configured to capture the performance data.

9. The vehicle system of claim 8, wherein the processing device is configured to receive the performance data from the at least one sensor.

10. A system comprising:

a remote aggregation server configured to receive performance data from a plurality of vehicles, wherein the performance data is associated with at least one of a plurality of vehicle subsystems,

wherein the remote aggregation server is configured to aggregate the performance data and identify a trend associated with the vehicle subsystems for a plurality of vehicles based at least in part on the performance data.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the performance data identifies a system performance condition in at least one of the plurality of vehicle systems.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the remote aggregation server is configured to transmit a message to each of the plurality of vehicles, wherein the message includes the trend.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the remote aggregation server is configured to identify the trend if the performance data indicates that a particular system performance condition has occurred a predetermined number of times in a predetermined number of vehicles.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the performance data identifies successful operation of at least one of the plurality of vehicle systems.

15. A method comprising:

receiving performance data from a plurality of vehicles, wherein the performance data is associated with at least one of a plurality of vehicle subsystems;

aggregating the performance data; and

identifying a trend associated with the vehicle subsystems for a plurality of vehicles based at least in part on the performance data.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the performance data identifies a system performance condition in at least one of the plurality of vehicle systems.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising transmitting a message to each of the plurality of vehicles, wherein the message includes the trend.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving compliance data indicating how a driver of each of the plurality of vehicles responded to the message.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein identifying the trend includes identifying the trend if the performance data indicates that a particular system performance condition has occurred a predetermined number of times in a predetermined number of vehicles.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the performance data identifies successful operation of at least one of the plurality of vehicle systems.