US 11,721,140 B2
System and method for presentation of remote vehicle diagnostics and service guidance through a local vehicle service system
Blackford F. Brauer, St. Louis, MO (US); James Kaleb Silver, St. Peters, MO (US); Nicholas J. Colarelli, III, Frontenac, MO (US); and Timothy A. Strege, Sunset Hills, MO (US)
Assigned to HUNTER ENGINEERING COMPANY, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Hunter Engineering Company, Bridgeton, MO (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/908,336.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/905,842, filed on Sep. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/869,293, filed on Jul. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0005031 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. G07C 5/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G07C 5/0808 (2013.01) [G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/0841 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); G07C 2205/02 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for conducting a vehicle service on a vehicle disposed in a vehicle service area, comprising:
performing a vehicle inspection and/or adjustment to said vehicle with a local vehicle service system in operative proximity to said vehicle service area, said inspection and/or adjustment generating a first set of vehicle service results;
identifying, at said local vehicle service system, one or more additional vehicle service procedures for the vehicle requiring communication with one or more vehicle onboard components;
communicating vehicle identifying information, said first set of vehicle service results, and information associated with said one or more identified vehicle service procedures, from said local vehicle service system to a cloud-based vehicle service system via a communications network;
responsive to receipt of said communicated vehicle identifying data and said information associated with said one or more identified vehicle service procedures at said cloud-based vehicle service system, relaying said conveyed vehicle identifying data and said information associated with said one or more identified vehicle service procedures to a local interface device via said communications network;
configuring said local interface device in response to said relayed vehicle identifying data;
operating said configured local interface device to conduct said one or more selected vehicle service procedures and to generate a second set of vehicle service results;
communicating said second set of vehicle service results from said local interface device to said cloud-based vehicle service system via said communications network; and
combining, at said cloud-based vehicle service system, said first and second sets of vehicle service results into a vehicle service record.