| CPC G07C 5/0808 (2013.01) [G07C 5/008 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A vehicle diagnostic system comprising:
a housing structure;
an electrical connector that is at least one of coupled to and extending from a portion of the housing structure; and
one or more computers and one or more storage devices positioned in the housing structure and communicably coupled to the electrical connector, the one or more storage devices comprising stored instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
determining a vehicle identification number (VIN) for a vehicle connected to the electrical connector;
identifying, based on the VIN, a vehicle electronic configuration (VEC) file from the one or more storage devices;
receiving, from a remote server, a request, wherein the request is a generic text request for vehicle operational data;
in response to receiving the request:
mapping, by the one or more computers and using the VEC file, the request to a parameter identification (PID) code;
determining a vehicle control module to access based on the mapping;
obtaining raw data associated with the mapped PID code containing the vehicle operational data from the vehicle control module based on the mapping; and
causing the raw data containing the vehicle operational data to be transmitted to the remote server.
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