Patent ID: 8457837

Claim:
A method for collecting defect data of parts in a passenger cabin of a vehicle, comprising: connecting one or more of a plurality of electronics devices allocated to a plurality of passengers located within the passenger cabin to a central communication device; retrieving a user interface provided by the central communication device by one or more of the plurality of the electronics devices; dialog-based inquiring of defect data of parts by the central communication device by way of the user interface on the one or more of the plurality of electronics devices; and receiving user input from one or more of the plurality of passengers that identifies the defect data of parts in the passenger cabin; storing the defect data by the central communication device in a central data storage unit, wherein the dialog-based inquiring of the defect data comprises generating hierarchical inquiry dialogs by retrieving from a database data of parts in the at least one passenger cabin that are notifiable as being defective and transmitting hierarchical inquiry dialogs by the central communication device to one or more of the plurality of the electronics devices.