Systems and Methods for Accessing Vehicle Communications Bus Information for an Application Processor
AssigneeScantool.net LLC d/b/a OBD Solutions
InventorsVitaliy Chetverikov, Vitaliy Maksimov, Jacob Hartsoch, Lester Meeks, Mark M. Moeller
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Abstract
A vehicle interface system comprises a vehicle interface processor, a processor data interconnect system, a vehicle communications bus electrical connection system, vehicle interface software, and an application data collection process running on the application processor using spare cycles not used by the application primary process. The application data collection process communicates with the vehicle interface software using the processor data interconnect system.
Claims21
A vehicle interface system for accessing data in real time from an onboard diagnostics system through a vehicle interface and a vehicle communications bus and transmitting the data to an application processor running an application primary process, comprising:
- a vehicle interface processor;
- a processor data interconnect system capable of transferring data between the vehicle interface processor and the application processor;
- a vehicle communications bus electrical connection system operatively connected to the vehicle interface and capable of transferring diagnostic data between the vehicle interface processor and the onboard diagnostics system;
- vehicle interface software running on the vehicle interface processor;
- and
- an application data collection process running on the application processor using spare cycles not used by the application primary process, where the application data collection process communicates with the vehicle interface software using the processor data interconnect system.
A vehicle interface system comprising
- a vehicle comprising:
- an onboard diagnostics system,
- a vehicle interface, and
- a vehicle communications bus;
- a vehicle interface processor;
- an application processor;
- a processor data interconnect system capable of transferring data between the vehicle interface processor and the application processor;
- and
- a vehicle communications bus electrical connection system operatively connected to the vehicle interface and capable of transferring diagnostic data between the vehicle interface processor and the onboard diagnostics system;
- vehicle interface software running on the vehicle interface processor;
- and
- an application data collection process running on the application processor using spare cycles not used by the application primary process, where the application data collection process communicates with the vehicle interface software using the processor data interconnect system.
The method of accessing data from an onboard diagnostics system through a vehicle interface and a vehicle communications bus and transmitting the data to an application processor, comprising the steps of:
- providing a vehicle interface processor;
- providing a processor data interconnect system capable of transferring data between the vehicle interface processor and the application processor;
- and
- providing a vehicle communications bus electrical connection system operatively connected to the vehicle interface and capable of transferring diagnostic data between the vehicle interface processor and the onboard diagnostics system;
- running vehicle interface software on the vehicle interface processor;
- running an application data collection process on the application processor using spare cycles not used by the application primary process;
- and
- causing the application data collection process to communicate with the vehicle interface software using the processor data interconnect system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.