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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1997
Martin P Franz, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
SPX Corporation, Muskegon, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle diagnostic system has a processor unit designed to be coupled to the vehicle to receive signals from the vehicle. The processing unit is connected to a long-term memory that stores instructions to be executed by the processing unit. The long-term memory also stores display values capable of being translated into a perceivable output. The instructions stored in the long-term memory include coding objects of a first type that are capable of calling other coding objects of the first type during execution. A random access memory is also coupled to the processing unit to receive a copy of some instructions stored in the long-term memory. At least one coding object of the first type copied into the random access memory includes a reference to a display value stored in long-term memory. The display value is copied into a display portion of the random access memory during execution and is retrieved by a user interface coupled to the random access memory. The user interface is capable of creating a perceivable output based upon the retrieved display values.