Patent ID: 11861954
Assignee: OPUS IVS, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A method of diagnosing vehicles and generating diagnostic reports comprising:
providing a vehicle interface computer device, said vehicle interface computer device configured to operate in a mode to diagnose a vehicle;
selectively connecting said vehicle interface computer device with a plurality of vehicles via diagnostic ports of the vehicles so as to be in communication with an electrical system of each of the vehicles;
selecting for each vehicle a diagnostic application scan program from a plurality of diagnostic application scan programs to be used with the vehicle, wherein the selected diagnostic application scan program is selected based at least in part on the make and model of the vehicle;
generating a scan log file for each of the plurality of vehicles by running the selected diagnostic application scan program for the vehicle via the vehicle interface computer device, wherein the scan log file is generated in one of a plurality of possible native file formats depending on the selected diagnostic application program;
extracting particular predefined selected portions of diagnostic data from each of the scan log files using a diagnostic evaluation tool program, wherein the diagnostic evaluation tool program is operable to extract the particular predefined selected portions of diagnostic data from each of the scan log files in each of the plurality of possible native file formats;
outputting and saving and retaining the particular predefined selected portions of diagnostic data from each of the scan log files to a scan database, wherein the particular predefined selected portions of diagnostic data are retained in the scan database in a common format independent of the native file format of the scan log file; and
generating a diagnostic detail report of at least some of the extracted particular predefined selected portions of diagnostic data contained in the scan database.