Patent ID: 9047722
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a global positioning system (GPS) receiver that determines a location of a vehicle; a diagnostic module that diagnosis a fault in a component of the vehicle and that, in response to the diagnosis of the fault, stores diagnostic data in a computer readable medium, the diagnostic data including both a predetermined diagnostic trouble code associated with the fault diagnosed and the location of the vehicle when the fault was diagnosed; a data server that (i) is external to the vehicle, that (ii) receives the diagnostic data including the diagnostic trouble code and the location of the vehicle, that (iii) when the location of the vehicle is less than a predetermined distance from one or more of predetermined locations of vehicle service providers, updates the diagnostic data to include a first indicator, and that (iv) when the location of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined distance from all of the predetermined locations of the vehicle service providers, the data server updates the diagnostic data to include a second indicator that is different than the first indicator; and a computing device that is external to the vehicle and the data server and that, based on user input to the computing device, transmits a request for diagnostic data to the data server, wherein, in response to the request, the data server does not transmit first diagnostic data including the first indicator to the computing device and the data server transmits second diagnostic data including the second indicator to the computing device.