Vehicle Data Acquisition System and Method
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorFranz GUMPINGER
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Abstract
A vehicle data acquisition system and method are provided for the analysis of vehicle conditions. A vehicle-external communication device, a vehicle-internal communication device, a vehicle-external computer and a vehicle-external databank are utilized. For providing an informative vehicle data acquisition system, on the basis of the data in the vehicle-external databank, the vehicle-external computer identifies those vehicles which have a first characteristic profile. The vehicle-external computer queries vehicle data from the identified vehicles by way of the vehicle-external and the vehicle-internal communication devices, and the vehicle-external computer evaluates the queried and received vehicle data for the analysis of vehicles having the first characteristic profile.
Claims16
A vehicle data acquisition system for analyzing vehicle conditions, the system comprising:
- a vehicle-external database;
- a vehicle-external computer operatively coupled with the database;
- a vehicle-external communication device operatively coupled with the vehicle-external computer;
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- wherein, based on data in the vehicle-external database, the vehicle-external computer identifies vehicles having a first characteristic profile and issues one or more queries of vehicle data from the vehicles having the first characteristic profile by way of the vehicle-external communication device;
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- wherein the vehicle-external computer evaluates any data received in response from the one or more queries to analyze the vehicles having the first characteristic profile.
A vehicle data acquisition method for analyzing vehicle conditions, the method comprising the acts of:
- identifying one or more vehicles having a first characteristic profile based upon data stored in a database external to the vehicles;
- externally querying vehicle data from the vehicles having the first characteristic profile by way of a wireless communication system;
- receiving the queried vehicle data via the wireless communication system by a vehicle-external computer;
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- evaluating the received vehicle data to analyze the vehicles having the first characteristic profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.