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(11) | EP 2 458 564 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Remote diagnosis of vehicles |
(57) A central processor resource (100) communicates wirelessly with at least one vehicle
(180) via a communication means (182) adapted to receiving information about a functional
status of the vehicle (180) from a data gathering means (184). The vehicle (180) sends
to the processor resource (100) a diagnosis request (DR) which includes a fault report.
On the basis of the fault report, the processor resource (100) determines a fault
diagnosis by using a diagnosis engine (110). The processor resource (100) checks whether
a current vehicle-specific configuration file (CF) of a prevailing configuration of
the vehicle (180) is stored in a connected data storage space (120). If the stored
configuration file (CF) is found to be current, it is read out from the data storage
space (120) to serve as a basis for the diagnosis engine (110) to determine the fault
diagnosis. Otherwise a request (CFR) for a vehicle-specific configuration file (CF)
is sent to the vehicle (180). In response to receiving a vehicle-specific configuration
file (CF), the file (CF) is read in as a basis for the diagnosis engine (110) to determine
the fault diagnosis.
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