# US 8,751,098 B2 · Method of monitoring CANbus information > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,751,098 B2 - Document ID: US8751098B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 12/020,464 - Filed: 2008-01-25 - Published: 2009-07-30 - Granted: 2014-06-10 - Earliest claimed: 2008-01-25 - Assignees: Omnitracs, LLC - Applicants: Juan Faus; Satish Ram - Inventors: Juan Faus; Satish Ram - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8751098B2 ## CPC - G07C 5/0808: {Diagnosing performance data (testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005)} - G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)} - G07C 5/085: {using electronic data carriers} - H04L 12/40: Bus networks - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract The specification and drawing figures describe and show a method and system of monitoring CANbus information across an integrated wireless equipment management system and a mobile wireless communications system. The CANbus, mounted in a vehicle, provides communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components that, because the CANbus also is operatively connectable to the integrated wireless equipment management system, may be transmitted across that system. The CANbus includes one or more original parameters associated with sensors that are converted into virtual sensors to provide selective vehicle information to a terminal of the integrated wireless equipment management system. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of monitoring bus information, comprising: receiving one or more original parameters, at an integrated wireless equipment management system, from a bus installed in a vehicle to provide communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components, wherein the one or more original parameters are adapted to provide vehicle information; receiving a request for desired selective vehicle information from a remote asset manager; and configuring, at the integrated wireless equipment management system, the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing selective vehicle information different than the vehicle information included in the original parameters, wherein the configuration of the virtual sensor is based on the received request for desired selective vehicle information. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters comprise proprietary parameters, from a CANbus, configured by a vehicle manufacturer. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one virtual sensor enables the integrated wireless equipment management system to monitor vehicle data without access to proprietary content of the original parameters. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include one or more parameters provided by SAE Standard J1939. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include determinable original parameter name and/or description data. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include determinable parameter group number data. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include determinable suspect parameter number data. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include determinable start bit position data of the original parameter. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include determinable total bit data of the original parameters. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include determinable sensor breach data indicating a value that a sensor has exceeded a configurable threshold value or value and time limitation. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters include determinable sensor normal data indicating that a sensor has returned to a configurable threshold value or value and time limitation. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more original parameters are includable in a message transmittable across the mobile wireless communications system by a mobile computing platform of the integrated wireless equipment management system to a terminal of the integrated wireless equipment management system. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 1, wherein a determinable original parameter name and/or description data, and/or a determinable parameter group number data, and/or a determinable start bit position data, and/or a determinable total bit data are configurable at a terminal of the integrated wireless equipment management system into the at least one virtual sensor. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a virtual sensor configuration that defines the at least one virtual sensor from a remotely-located asset manager computer-assisted component. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the selective vehicle information is a function of the at least one virtual sensor and at least one of factor, offset, and unit data. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the one or more original parameters to produce the at least one virtual sensor further comprises at least one of: extracting data from the one or more original parameters according to a virtual sensor configuration received from a remotely-located asset manager computer-assisted component; or adding new parameters to at least one of the extracted data or the one or more original parameters, according to the virtual sensor configuration. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the desired selective vehicle information is received in a message via a mobile wireless communication system by a mobile computing platform of the integrated wireless equipment management system. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising reconfiguring, at the integrated wireless equipment management system, the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing different selective vehicle information. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the original parameters comprise parameters provided for use with a CANbus by a manufacturer of the vehicle. ### Claim 20 A method of monitoring bus information comprising: receiving one or more original parameters at an integrated wireless equipment management system adapted to receive, store, and process at least vehicle data across a mobile wireless communications system, from a bus installed in a vehicle, wherein the bus is adapted to provide communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components the bus being operatively connectable to the integrated wireless equipment management system, wherein the bus includes the one or more original parameters adapted to provide vehicle data that may be monitored by the integrated wireless equipment management system; configuring the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing selective vehicle information to the integrated wireless equipment management system; and transmitting a message including the one or more original parameters across the mobile wireless communications system by a mobile computing platform of the integrated wireless equipment management system to a terminal of the integrated wireless equipment management system, wherein the terminal of the integrated wireless equipment management system further comprises means for providing factor, offset, and unit data to combine with the at least one virtual sensor to provide the selective vehicle information. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The method of monitoring bus information as recited in claim 20, wherein the one or more original parameters include one or more parameters provided by SAE Standard J1939. ### Claim 22 A system for processing original parameters of a CANbus as virtual sensors, comprising: an integrated wireless equipment management system having at least one terminal adapted to monitor vehicle data of a vehicle, wherein the at least one terminal is configured to: receive one or more original parameters from a CANbus mounted in the vehicle and adapted to provide communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components, wherein the one or more original parameters are adapted to provide vehicle information; and receive a request for desired selective vehicle information from a remote asset manager; and a terminal processor configured to execute at least one protocol for configuring the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing selective vehicle information different than the vehicle information included in the original parameters, wherein the configuration of the virtual sensor is based on the received request for desired selective vehicle information. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The system for processing original parameters of a CANbus as virtual sensors as recited in claim 22, wherein the one or more original parameters correspond to one or more sensors on the vehicle that are operatively connected to the CANbus. ### Claim 24 (depends on 22) The system for processing original parameters of a CANbus as virtual sensors as recited in claim 22, further comprising a mobile computing platform operatively connectable to the terminal, wherein the mobile computing platform is configured to receive and transmit messages across a mobile wireless communications system to other components of the integrated wireless equipment management system. ### Claim 25 (depends on 22) The system for processing original parameters of a CANbus as virtual sensors as recited in claim 22, wherein the at least one protocol for configuring the one or more original parameters to selective vehicle information defines a plurality of determinable original parameters. ### Claim 26 A system for processing original parameters of a CANbus as virtual sensors, comprising: an integrated wireless equipment management system having at least one terminal adapted to monitor vehicle data of a vehicle, wherein the at least one terminal is configured to receive one or more original parameters from a CANbus mounted in the vehicle and adapted to provide communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components, wherein the one or more original parameters are adapted to provide vehicle information; and a terminal processor configured to execute at least one protocol for configuring the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing selective vehicle information different than the vehicle information included in the original parameters, wherein the terminal processor configured to execute the at least one protocol for configuring the one or more original parameters to selective vehicle information is further configured to extract one or more parameters provided by at least one standard adopted by the Society of Automotive Engineers from the one or more original parameters and configure one or more determinable parameters from the one or more extracted parameters, wherein the one or more determinable parameters correspond to the at least one virtual sensor. ### Claim 27 A system for processing original parameters of a CANbus as virtual sensors comprising: an integrated wireless equipment management system having at least one terminal remote from a vehicle adapted to monitor vehicle data of the vehicle transmitted from a mobile computing platform to the at least one terminal, wherein the remote terminal is configured to receive vehicle data messages from the mobile computing platform provided at the vehicle via a mobile wireless communications system adapted to transmit vehicle data messages at least between the mobile computing platform and the at least one terminal, and wherein the vehicle data messages are received from a CANbus mounted in the vehicle adapted to monitor vehicle data transmittable in vehicle data messages between the mobile computing platform and the at least one terminal, wherein the CANbus includes one or more original parameters; and at least one protocol for configuring the vehicle data in the vehicle data messages to provide selective vehicle information monitored by the at least one terminal, wherein the protocol for configuring the vehicle data to provide selective vehicle information includes factor, offset and unit data provided by the terminal. ### Claim 28 A system for providing selective vehicle information, the system comprising: means for receiving one or more original parameters, from a CANbus mounted in a vehicle to provide communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components, wherein the one or more original parameters are adapted to provide vehicle information; means for receiving a request for desired selective vehicle information from a remote asset manager; and means for configuring the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing selective vehicle information different than the vehicle information included in the original parameters, wherein the configuration of the virtual sensor is based on the received request for desired selective vehicle information. ### Claim 29 (depends on 28) The system for providing selective vehicle information as recited in claim 28, wherein the means for configuring further includes means for filtering the one or more original parameters to obtain a parameter group number (PGN) and a source address (SA). ### Claim 30 (depends on 29) The system for providing selective vehicle information as recited in claim 29, wherein the means for configuring further comprises means for matching the PGN and the SA with the one or more original parameters. ### Claim 31 (depends on 30) The system for providing selective vehicle information as recited in claim 30, further comprising means for determining whether the PGN and the SA are normal or breached. ### Claim 32 A system for monitoring bus information, comprising: an integrated wireless equipment management system adapted to: receive at least vehicle data including one or more original parameters from a bus installed in a vehicle to provide communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components, wherein the one or more original parameters are adapted to provide vehicle information; and receive a request for desired selective vehicle information from a remote asset manager; and a processor adapted to configure the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing selective vehicle information different than the vehicle information included in the original parameters, wherein the configuration of the virtual sensor is based on the received request for desired selective vehicle information. ### Claim 33 A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that cause a computer to monitor bus information when executed by the computer, the instructions for causing the computer to: receive one or more original parameters from a bus installed in a vehicle to provide communication and diagnostic information among vehicle components, wherein the one or more original parameters are adapted to provide vehicle information; receive a request for desired selective vehicle information from a remote asset manager; and configure the one or more original parameters to produce at least one virtual sensor capable of providing selective vehicle information different than the vehicle information included in the original parameters, wherein the configuration of the virtual sensor is based on the received request for desired selective vehicle information.