Patent ID: 8850083

Claim:
A data management system for gathering vehicle data, the data management system comprising: a data gathering device; and a host device, the host device being different from the data gathering device, wherein said data gathering device is configured to: gather a first data item regarding a target object on a vehicle, transmit the first data item to said host device in a first instance, and transmit a second data item to said host device in a second instance, the second instance being after the first instance, and wherein said host device is configured to: receive the first data item from the data gathering device in the first instance, operate on the first data item to produce a first output by comparing the first data item to a diagnosis algorithm, transmit the first output to said data gathering device, receive a record of an action taken on the vehicle based on the first output, receive the second data item from the data gathering device in the second instance, the second instance being after the transmission of the first output to the data gathering device, determine, in response to reception of the second data item from the data gathering device, that the action taken on the vehicle was ineffective based on a determination that the first and the second data items are the same, operate on the second data item to produce a second output by comparing the second data item to the diagnosis algorithm, the second output being different from the first output, and transmit the second output to the data gathering device.