Method and system for automated and manual data capture configuration

摘要

A client and server are operable within a community of clients for transferring vehicle diagnostic data captured from vehicles. The server includes a central library for storing captured vehicle data (CVD) prior to receiving client requests for CVD from the central library to compare to CVD within a client's local library. The client request may include vehicle identification data and client settings so that the CVD provided to the client is from another client configured to the same client settings and from a type of vehicle that matches a vehicle-type identified by the vehicle identification data. Alert requests transmitted by a client or server can be received by a client or a remote alert device to provide notice that another client has requested CVD. CVD can be associated with data tags that reduce the burden in locating the CVD and include data relating to the capture of the CVD.

主权项

1. A client system for vehicle diagnostics, the client system comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable medium; a network interface configured to receive a first request-alert transmitted over a network from a vehicle-diagnostic server, wherein the first request-alert identifies a particular vehicle-type and a vehicle data type of vehicle data to be captured, subsequent to the network interface receiving the first request alert, by the client system from a vehicle that is the particular vehicle-type identified by the first request-alert; a user interface configured to visually present the first request-alert that is received using the network interface and that identifies the particular vehicle-type and the vehicle data type of vehicle data to be captured by the client system; a client/vehicle interface configured to receive vehicle data storable in the computer-readable medium as first captured vehicle data from the vehicle that is the particular vehicle-type identified by the first request-alert, wherein the first captured vehicle data comprises vehicle data of the vehicle data type identified by the first request-alert captured, subsequent to the network interface receiving the first request alert, from the vehicle that is the particular vehicle-type identified by the first request-alert; program instructions stored at the non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor to associate a first set of one or more data tags with the first captured vehicle data; and wherein the network interface is configured to transmit a requested-data message including the first captured vehicle data and the first set of one or more data tags onto the network for transmission of the first captured vehicle data and the first set of one or more data tags from the client system to the vehicle-diagnostic server for storage in a network-based vehicle-diagnostics database that provides captured vehicle data collected from a community of client systems.