Telematics system

• US 9,201,844 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Guenkova-Luy, Teodora, Goeckelmann, Ralph, Clauss, Martin, Klimke, Andreas, Abt, Oliver, Seibold, Felix
• Primary Examiner(s): Trammell, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Malhotra, Sanjeev
• Application Number:
  US13/924,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20140005880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/22, 701/29, 701/33, 725/80, 370/253, 370/328
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/069 using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A telematics system can include a processor, installed in a vehicle, ship, or other mode of transport of people, configured to identify an error state of an telematics component providing a telematics service. The processor can also be configured to communicate the error state to a logger component via a logging message. The logger component may be configured to generate a log file based on the logging message.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processing unit;

a logger component;

a telematics component;

an application component executable by the processing unit to;

provide a service of the telematics component; and

communicate an error state of the application component as a logging message to the logger component, where the logger component is executable by the processing unit to generate a log file based on the logging message, where the processing unit, the logger component, the telematics component, and the application component are configured to be installed in a vehicle, ship, or other mode of transport of people;

wherein the logging message comprises;

a component identifier for the at least one application component,

a message identifier describing a transmitted state of the at least one application component; and

metadata comprising a parameter; and

a reporter component executable by the processing unit to communicate the log file to an analyzer component, where the analyzer component is further executable to carry out a fault root cause analysis based on the log file and a predefined use case.

2. The system according to claim 1, where a memory device is coupled to the processing unit and is configured to store the log file.

3. The system according to claim 2, where the reporter component is further configured to communicate the log file to the analyzer component after a predetermined time period.

4. The system according to claim 2, where the analyzer component is executable by the processing unit.

5. The system according to claim 2, where the analyzer component is executable by a processing unit external to the vehicle.

6. The system according to claim 2, where the reporter component is further executable by the processing unit to:

receive data comprising definitions of errors; and

communicate at least the definitions of errors to the application component.

7. The system according to claim 6, where the definitions of errors facilitate identification of error states of the application component.

8. The system according to claim 1, where the processing unit is configured to:

execute and manage a multi-threaded system adapted to execute concurrent instances of the application component;

carry out a fault root cause analysis based on the log file and a predefined use case, where a state of the predefined use case comprises a use case variable; and

identify an instance of the predefined use case by matching the parameter comprised in the metadata of the logging message to the use case variable.

9. A method, comprising:

identifying, by a processor configured to be installed in a vehicle, ship, or other mode of transport of people, an error state of a telematics component providing a telematics service;

communicating, by the processor, the error state to a logger component via a logging message;

generating, by the logger component, a log file based on the logging message, wherein the logging message comprises;

a component identifier for at least one application component,

a message identifier describing a transmitted state of the at least one application component, and

metadata comprising a parameter and a timestamp;

communicating, by the processor, the log file to an analyzer component; and

carrying out, by the analyzer component, an automatic fault root cause analysis by analyzing the log file based on a predefined use case.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

identifying, by the processor, the logging message from the log file; and

identifying, by the processor, a predefined use case from a plurality of predefined use cases by matching the logging message to an error state in the predefined use case,

where the predefined use case is defined as a plurality of states and relationships organized in a graph data structure.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising analyzing, by the processor, the predefined use case.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising displaying the analysis of the predefined use case by a display device installed in the vehicle, ship, or other mode of transport of people.