Patent ID: 9613469
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G07C

Claim:
1. A diagnostic tool, comprising: a processor; a display in communication with the processor; a complex programmable logic device in communication with the processor, wherein the complex programmable logic device decodes inputs of the diagnostic tool; a vehicle communication protocol interface operatively coupled to the processor and allows the processor to communicate with a vehicle under test; a memory in communication with the processor, the memory containing instructions, that when executed by the processor causes the processor to: generate, on the display, a graphical user interface (GUI) having a plurality of functionality, the graphical user interface comprising: a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of vehicle diagnostic functions performable by the diagnostic tool; and vehicle modules containing information corresponding to a plurality of vehicles, wherein each of the vehicle modules has a brightness level on the GUI based on when the corresponding vehicle was last scanned by the diagnostic tool, wherein the brightness level of the vehicle modules on the GUI is higher when the last scan is closer to a present time than vehicle modules whose last scan is farther from the present time, and wherein the vehicle modules are configured to indicate via a text on the GUI if a vehicle's information was transferred from another diagnostic tool; the display further including a plurality of panels, wherein at east one of the plurality of panels is located at an edge of the display such that the at least one of the plurality of panels is configured to display a portion of at least one additional icon available to a user, while another portion of the at least one additional icon remains hidden from the user, wherein the plurality of panels include a text indicator that indicates information about the at least one additional icon, wherein the GUI is further configured. to display selectable icons that correspond to vehicle data streams retrieved by the processor, and wherein the selectable icons are configured to be resizable, and placeable at different angles by a user of the diagnostic tool when data of the data streams changes from a predetermined data.