Patent ID: 7480551

Claim:
A system for monitoring a set of vehicles, comprising: a host computer configured to host a web site that receives operational characteristics transmitted wirelessly from a set of vehicles, wherein the host computer is configured to wirelessly transmit to each of the set of vehicles a software component configured to identify a subset of a set of operational characteristics to be monitored by an on-board diagnostic computer located in each of the set of vehicles, wherein the software component comprises a first field configured to describe a user specified first schedule for automatically, repeatedly querying each vehicle's on-board diagnostic computer for the subset of operational characteristics identified in the software component and a second field configured to describe a user specified second schedule for automatically, repeatedly, and wirelessly transmitting to the host computer each vehicle's subset of operational characteristics, said web site programmed to display on a first web interface queried operational characteristics of a single vehicle selected from among said set of vehicles, said web site programmed to also display on a second web interface queried operational characteristics of multiple vehicles among said set of vehicles, wherein said multiple vehicles are associated with a single entity.