Patent ID: 9584600
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A communication method between construction equipment and a management server, comprising: (i) receiving, by a diagnostic device of the construction equipment, state information from a plurality of vehicle control devices; (ii) checking for, by the diagnostic device, a usable communication method when the received state information is identified to be transmitted to the management server; (iii) when there is one usable communication method identified by the checking, transmitting, by the diagnostic device, the state information to the management server using the one usable communication method; and (iv) when there is a plurality of usable communication methods identified by the checking, selecting, by the diagnostic device, a communication method from the plurality of usable communication methods having the lowest fee per unit data, and transmitting the state information to the management server using the selected communication method, wherein the diagnostic device of the construction equipment periodically monitors respective location information and charging policies of communication network providers using the operations (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv).