Patent ID: 8587420

Claim:
A method for reporting vehicle data composing processor implemented steps of: assigning a rank to each of a plurality of sources of data for each of a plurality of parameters, wherein the sources of data are connected to the processor, and wherein the rank depends on at least one of reliability of the source of data and resolution of data obtainable from the source of data; receiving a user specified parameter to be reported, which is selected from said plurality of parameters; determining, from said plurality of sources of data which source of data to use for the selected parameter based on the ranks assigned to the sources of data, wherein multiple of said sources of data can be used for the selected parameter; obtaining data from the determined source of data; and transmitting, to a remote host, a value of the selected parameter based on the obtained data; wherein at least one source of data is a vehicle protocol data source; and another source of data is an additional data provider: further comprising one or more data concentrators; wherein the value of the parameter is based on data obtained via one or more data concentrators, each data concentrator configured to perform a calculation on data obtained from multiple of the plurality of sources of data; and the one or more processors are further configured to: receive a user specified format in which the parameter is to be reported; and convert the obtained data such that the value of the parameter transmitted is in the specified format.