IP Library Granted Patent US 7,010,289
Granted Patent B2
US 7,010,289 · App. 10/154,500 · Granted Mar 7, 2006

Method and system for vehicle data upload

Assignee: General Motors Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,010,289
App. No.
10/154,500
Granted
Mar 7, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention provides a method for vehicle data upload by activating at least one action trigger as a function of a vehicle communication unit, collecting at least one attribute data within a mobile vehicle, transmitting the attribute data from the vehicle communication unit to a mobile network intelligence, determining a second attribute data, producing a second action trigger, transmitting the second action trigger from the mobile network intelligence to the vehicle communication unit, and overwriting the action trigger as the second action trigger.

Claims (29)

1. A method for vehicle data upload comprising:

activating at least one action trigger as a function of a vehicle communication unit, wherein the action trigger is an event trigger selected from a group consisting of a storage trigger, a continuous monitoring trigger, a collection trigger, a upload trigger, and a enhanced continuous monitoring trigger;

collecting at least one attribute data within a mobile vehicle as a function of the action trigger;

transmitting the attribute data from the vehicle communication unit to a mobile network intelligence;

determining a second attribute data as a function of the attribute data;

producing a second action trigger as a function of the second attribute data;

transmitting the second action trigger from the mobile network intelligence to the vehicle communication unit; and

overwriting the action trigger as a function of the second action trigger.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the action trigger is a storage trigger.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the action trigger is an upload trigger.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the upload trigger is a function of an attribute in communication with a mobile vehicle communication center.

5. A method for vehicle data unload comprising:

activating at least one action trigger as a function of a vehicle communication unit, wherein the action trigger is a data trigger selected from a group consisting of minutes, kilometers, ignition on, ignition off, number of ignition cycles, timestamp, days, and miles;

collecting at least one attribute data within a mobile vehicle as a function of the action trigger;

transmitting the attribute data from the vehicle communication unit to a mobile network intelligence;

determining a second attribute data as a function of the attribute data;

producing a second action trigger as a function of the second attribute data;

transmitting the second action trigger from the mobile network intelligence to the vehicle communication unit; and

overwriting the action trigger as a function of the second action trigger.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the action trigger is a storage trigger.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the action trigger is an upload trigger.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the upload trigger is a function of an attribute in communication with a mobile vehicle communication center.

9. A method for vehicle data upload comprising:

generating a route at a call center, the route comprising road information and maneuver instructions;

determining a current vehicle location and heading;

receiving truncated current vehicle location and heading information from the vehicle, wherein the truncated current vehicle location comprises a vehicle location modified by at least one method to improve record payload efficiency wherein the at least one method to improve record payload efficiency is selected from the group consisting of truncating leading, trailing and empty field zeros, sinusoids of angles, data relative to an initial point of reference within an ignition cycle, choice of compression/tokenization schemes, data stripping and adding tokenization algorithms during upload or download;

determining a need for a large payload vehicle data upload; and

receiving a large payload vehicle data upload in response to the determination.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein determining a need for a large payload comprises map matching.

Assignments (14)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 7, 2014
From: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
To: GENERAL MOTORS LLC
Reel/Frame 034183/0436 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Nov 8, 2010
From: GENERAL MOTORS LLC
To: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Reel/Frame 025327/0196 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 4, 2010
From: UAW RETIREE MEDICAL BENEFITS TRUST
To: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 025311/0725 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 4, 2010
From: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
To: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 025245/0347 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 12, 2009
From: GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
To: GENERAL MOTORS LLC
Reel/Frame 023504/0691 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Aug 27, 2009
From: GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
To: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Reel/Frame 023155/0814 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 27, 2009
From: MOTORS LIQUIDATION COMPANY
To: GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
Reel/Frame 023148/0248 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Aug 27, 2009
From: GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
To: UAW RETIREE MEDICAL BENEFITS TRUST
Reel/Frame 023155/0849 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 21, 2009
From: GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
To: MOTORS LIQUIDATION COMPANY
Reel/Frame 023129/0236 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2009
From: CITICORP USA, INC. AS AGENT FOR BANK PRIORITY SECURED PARTIES; CITICORP USA, INC. AS AGENT FOR HEDGE PRIORITY SECURED PARTIES
To: MOTORS LIQUIDATION COMPANY (F/K/A GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 023119/0817 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 20, 2009
From: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
To: MOTORS LIQUIDATION COMPANY (F/K/A GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 023119/0491 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 16, 2009
From: GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
To: CITICORP USA, INC. AS AGENT FOR BANK PRIORITY SECURED PARTIES; CITICORP USA, INC. AS AGENT FOR HEDGE PRIORITY SECURED PARTIES
Reel/Frame 022552/0006 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Feb 3, 2009
From: GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
To: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Reel/Frame 022191/0254 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 24, 2002
From: JIJINA, JASMIN; ABESKA, EDWARD J.; KACEL, RICHARD J.; STEFAN, JEFFREY M.
To: GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 012941/0517 →
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