Patent ID: 9672666
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G07C

Claim:
1. A method for collecting vehicle data by a vehicle data collection server communicating with a vehicle through a wireless network, the method comprising: communicating, at a communication unit, with plural vehicles including a subject vehicle via the wireless network; determining, at a group criterion determination unit, which vehicle among the plural vehicles is considered an alternative data collection vehicle group for the subject vehicle based on a predefined group criterion; determining, at a data validity determination unit, which one of vehicle data gathered from the alternative data collection vehicle group via the wireless network is an overlapped feature to the subject vehicle; assigning, at a data item allocation unit, the overlapped feature to subject vehicle data belonging to the subject vehicle; sending, at the communication unit, a message for requesting an incomplete data item of the subject vehicle data at the subject vehicle via the wireless network; receiving, at the communication unit, another message including vehicle data, corresponding to the incomplete data item, delivered from the subject vehicle via the wireless network; and updating, at a controller, the subject vehicle data stored in a data storage in response to the vehicle data received from the subject vehicle.