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

Claim 0:
1. A method of diagnosing a vehicle comprising:
providing a vehicle interface computer device, said vehicle interface computer device configured to operate in a mode to diagnose a vehicle;
connecting said vehicle interface computer device with a diagnostic port of a vehicle to be in communication with an electrical system of the vehicle;
running a selected one of a plurality of diagnostic application scan programs via the vehicle interface computer device to generate a scan log file of the electrical system of the vehicle, wherein the selected diagnostic application scan program is selected based at least in part on the make and model of the vehicle, and wherein the scan log file is generated in one of a plurality of possible native file formats depending on the selected diagnostic application scan program;
using a diagnostic evaluation tool program to extract a particular predefined selected portion of diagnostic data from the scan log file, wherein the diagnostic evaluation tool program is operable to extract the particular predefined selected portion of diagnostic data from scan log files in each of the plurality of possible native file formats, and wherein the extracted particular predefined selected portion of diagnostic data comprises a Diagnostic Trouble Code (“DTC”), a description of the DTC, and a fault state; and
outputting and saving and retaining the particular predefined selected portion of diagnostic data to a scan database, wherein the particular predefined selected portion of diagnostic data is retained in the scan database in a common format independent of the native file format of the scan log file.