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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2005
Mingheng Wang, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Steven J. Ross, Livonia, MI (US);
Edward P. Chrumka, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Mingheng Wang, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Steven J. Ross, Livonia, MI (US);
Edward P. Chrumka, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of performing vehicle diagnostics including receiving diagnostic information from at least one electronic module of a vehicle at a portable communication device from a telematics unit via a short-range wireless connection, storing the received diagnostic information in a memory in the portable communication device to form a recent-history vehicle database, performing a diagnostic analysis based on the recent-history vehicle database and sending the received diagnostic information from the portable communication device to an external memory to form an historic vehicle database.