US 8,428,814 B2Granted

Method of verifying regulatory compliance of a vehicle having a vehicle diagnostic system

AssigneeSysTech International, LLC

InventorsPradeep R. Tripathi, Lothar Geilen

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Abstract

A method of verifying regulatory compliance of a vehicle having a vehicle diagnostic system includes providing a vehicle unit having an adapter that is configured to connect with a vehicle diagnostic port of the vehicle diagnostic system. The vehicle unit further includes a vehicle wireless transceiver and a memory. The adapter is connected with the vehicle diagnostic port and receives vehicle data including exhaust emission parameters. The vehicle data is stored in the memory. A communication network is provided for two-way wireless communication with the vehicle unit. The communication network is made up of a plurality of geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers. The vehicle wireless communication transceiver is activated with one of the geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers when the vehicle wireless communication transceiver is in a vicinity of that geographically dispersed wireless communication transceiver to communicate the stored vehicle data to that one of the geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers. A host computer system with access to the communication network receives vehicle data from the geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers. A database accessed by the host computer system collects environmental regulatory compliance data. Environmental authority is provided access to the database to verify regulatory compliance.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A method of verifying regulatory compliance of a vehicle having a vehicle diagnostic system including a diagnostic port, said method comprising:

providing a vehicle unit comprising an adapter that is configured to connect with the vehicle diagnostic port of the vehicle diagnostic system, said vehicle unit further comprising a vehicle wireless transceiver and a memory;
connecting said adapter with the vehicle diagnostic port and receiving vehicle data including exhaust emission parameters with said adapter;
storing in said memory the vehicle data including exhaust emission parameters received from the vehicle diagnostic system;
providing a communication network for two-way wireless communication with said vehicle unit, said communication network made up of a plurality of geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
activating said vehicle wireless communication transceiver with one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers in response to the vehicle bringing said vehicle wireless communication transceiver within a vicinity of that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers to communicate the stored vehicle data to that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
providing a host computer system with access to said communication network and receiving vehicle data from said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers with said host computer system;
providing a database accessed by said host computer system;
collecting environmental regulatory compliance data with said database from vehicle data received from said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
and
providing access by environmental authority to said database to verify regulatory compliance;
and
checking to ensure that said adapter is on the same vehicle when the vehicle is powered on by comparing current vehicle data with stored vehicle data.

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A method of verifying regulatory compliance of a vehicle having a vehicle diagnostic system including a diagnostic port, said method comprising:

providing a vehicle unit comprising an adapter that is configured to connect with the vehicle diagnostic port of the vehicle diagnostic system, said vehicle unit further comprising a vehicle wireless transceiver and a memory;
connecting said adapter with the vehicle diagnostic port and receiving vehicle data including exhaust emission parameters with said adapter;
storing in said memory the vehicle data including exhaust emission parameters received from the vehicle diagnostic system;
providing a communication network for two-way wireless communication with said vehicle unit, said communication network made up of a plurality of geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
activating said vehicle wireless communication transceiver with one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers in response to the vehicle bringing said vehicle wireless communication transceiver within a vicinity of that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers to communicate the stored vehicle data to that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
providing a host computer system with access to said communication network and receiving vehicle data from said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers with said host computer system;
providing a database accessed by said host computer system;
collecting environmental regulatory compliance data with said database from vehicle data received from said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
and
providing access by environmental authority to said database to verify regulatory compliance;
wherein said activating comprises each said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceiver repetitively sending a wireless signal and said vehicle unit communicating the stored vehicle data to that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers in response to receipt of the wireless signal from that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
wherein said activating is in response to said vehicle wireless communication transceiver being in a vicinity of approximately 250 meters from that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers.

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A method of verifying regulatory compliance of a vehicle having a vehicle diagnostic system including a diagnostic port, said method comprising:

providing a vehicle unit comprising an adapter that is configured to connect with the vehicle diagnostic port of the vehicle diagnostic system, said vehicle unit further comprising a vehicle wireless transceiver and a memory;
connecting said adapter with the vehicle diagnostic port and receiving vehicle data including exhaust emission parameters with said adapter;
storing in said memory the vehicle data including exhaust emission parameters received from the vehicle diagnostic system;
checking to ensure that said adapter is connected with the same vehicle;
providing a communication network for two-way wireless communication with said vehicle unit, said communication network made up of a plurality of geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
activating said vehicle wireless communication transceiver with one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers in response to the vehicle bringing said vehicle wireless communication transceiver within a vicinity of that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers to communicate the stored vehicle data to that one of said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
providing a host computer system with access to said communication network and receiving vehicle data from said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers with said host computer system;
providing a database accessed by said host computer system;
collecting environmental regulatory compliance data with said database from vehicle data received from said geographically dispersed wireless communication transceivers;
and providing access by environmental authority to said database to verify regulatory compliance.

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Facts

Application: 11/890,662Filed 7 Aug 2007 · continuation
Priority: 3 Jan 2002
Published: US 2007/0276561 A129 Nov 2007
Granted: 23 Apr 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G07C 5/008
Registering or indicating the working of vehicles: communicating information to a remotely located station
G07C 5/085
Registering performance data: using electronic data carriers
G08G 1/205
Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles: indicating the…
G07C
Time or attendance registers

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Application60/345,524Us provisional application · filed 3 Jan 2002
Application10/248,240Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Dec 2002
US 2007/0276561 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Nov 2007
US 2003/0130774 A1Published application
US 8,428,814 B2This patent

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