IP Library Granted Patent US 10,229,546
Granted Patent B2
US 10,229,546 · App. 15/517,091 · Granted Mar 12, 2019

Remote server

Inventors: Sosuke Murata (Osaka, JP); Akihiro Shinkuma (Osaka, JP); Minoru Koyama (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
G07C5/008E02F9/2054E02F9/22G06Q50/10G07C5/006G07C5/0816G08B25/00H04M11/00
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,229,546
App. No.
15/517,091
Granted
Mar 12, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A remote server identifies based on unique identification information, model information, operator name information and/or owner name information, and a plurality of pieces of contact information. The remote server identifies trouble content information, estimated cause information, and seriousness information based on trouble content identification information. The remote server simultaneously transmits transmission information to contact addresses indicated by the plurality of pieces of contact information identified, the transmission information including the model information, the operator name information and/or the owner name information, date and time information, position information, the trouble content information, the estimated cause information, and the seriousness information. When the seriousness information has a highest rank, the remote server adds instruction information instructing a phone call to the operator and/or the owner to the transmission information to be transmitted to the contact addresses indicated by the plurality of pieces of contact information.

Claims (8)

1. A remote server that receives from a work machine, position information indicating a position of the work machine, trouble content identification information indicating a content of trouble in the work machine, and detected date and time information indicating date and time when the trouble has been detected and/or transmitted date and time information indicating date and time when information has been transmitted from the work machine, together with unique identification information of the work machine,

wherein based on the unique identification information, model information indicating a model of the work machine, operator name information indicating a name of an operator of the work machine and/or owner name information indicating a name of an owner of the work machine, and a plurality of pieces of contact information each indicating a corresponding one of a plurality of contact addresses of an entity in charge of maintenance for the work machine are identified,

wherein based on the trouble content identification information, trouble content information indicating the content of the trouble, estimated cause information indicating an estimated cause of the content of the trouble, and seriousness information indicating seriousness of the content of the trouble are identified,

wherein transmission information is simultaneously transmitted to the contact addresses indicated by the plurality of pieces of contact information identified, the transmission information including the model information, the operator name information and/or the owner name information, the detected date and time information and/or the transmitted date and time information, the position information, the trouble content information, the estimated cause information, and the seriousness information, and

wherein when the seriousness information has a highest rank, instruction information instructing a phone call to the operator and/or the owner is added to the transmission information to be transmitted to the contact addresses indicated by the plurality of pieces of contact information.

2. The remote server according to claim 1 ,

wherein based on the unique identification information, contact information on the operator and/or contact information on the owner is identified, and

wherein when the seriousness rank does not have the highest rank, reception check information is added to the transmission information to be transmitted to a contact address indicated by the contact information on the operator and/or the contact information on the owner, the reception check information instructing reception check in the work machine.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 26, 2020
From: YANMAR CO., LTD.
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054162/0112 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 6, 2017
From: MURATA, SOSUKE; SHINKUMA, AKIHIRO; KOYAMA, MINORU
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 041879/0914 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-206685 · Oct 7, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170301151A1 · Oct 19, 2017