Patent ID: 8630765

Claim:
A diagnostic method comprising: receiving in a hand held device sensed diagnostic data from a vehicle, the diagnostic data being representative of a vehicle system status; transmitting an upload signal including information representative of the diagnostic data to at least one remote database to produce to diagnostic summary, the diagnostic summary including a plurality of selectable top level information results, each top level information result being associated with a plurality of bottom level information links, each bottom level information link being associated with remotely located bottom level data including at least one of data functionally related to the diagnostic data and reference materials associated with the diagnostic data, the plurality of bottom level information links being accessible in response to selection of the respective top level information result, the bottom level data being accessible in the hand held device in response to selection of the respective bottom level information link; formatting the diagnostic summary for display at the hand held device in accordance with formatting instructions provided by a user; displaying the diagnostic summary for review in the hand held device; selecting a first one of the plurality of top level information results of the diagnostic summary; displaying the bottom level information links associated with the one of the plurality of top level information results; selecting one of the plurality of bottom level information links; downloading the bottom level data associated with the selected first one of the top level information results; and displaying the bottom level data associated with the selected first one of the top level information results for review in the hand held device simultaneously with display of the diagnostic summary.