Method and system for capturing vehicle data using an RF transmitter

US6778888B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Motor Company · US

Inventors

• Anthony Joseph Cataldo · Clinton Township, US
• Terry Haggerty · Plymouth, US
• Henry Thomas Ubik · Grosse Pointe Park, US
• Mona Patel · San Francisco, US
• Tim Harrington · Monrovia, US
• Tom Alexander Paston Bacon · Hamilton, BM
• Dave Wisherd · Sunnyvale, US
• Doug Bowman · Corvallis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 4, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 17, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C5/008
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system (100) and method (10) for automated collection of data from a transportation vehicle (14) having a wireless transmitter (12) connected to a diagnostic service bus (16). The wireless transmitter (12) is in communication with a server (22) for processing and displaying the collected data.