Patent ID: 7209813

Claim:
A device for retrieving diagnostic information from a vehicle diagnostic system comprising: a cellular phone characterized by transmitting and receiving data representing a human voice comprising: a first processor in circuit communication with a first memory, a display, an input device, a telecommunications circuit, and an interface port; and an adaptor for connecting the cellular phone to the vehicle diagnostic system, the adaptor comprising a second processor, a second memory, a communications circuit, and an interface circuit; wherein the communications circuit is capable of generating a communications protocol to communicate with the vehicle diagnostic system and is capable of retrieving diagnostic information from the vehicle diagnostic system and communicating the retrieved diagnostic information to the second processor, wherein the second processor is capable of communicating diagnostic information to the interface circuit, the interface circuit is capable of communicating diagnostic information to the cellular phone, which is capable of at least one of generating a display on the cellular phone display corresponding to diagnostic information received via the adaptor and transmitting diagnostic information received via the adaptor to a remote location, and wherein the second processor processes the diagnostic information and communicates the processed diagnostic information for display on the cellular phone and wherein the second memory comprises programming logic to enable the second processor to processes the diagnostic information into human readable form.