Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
  • G07C5/08—Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
  • G07C5/0841—Registering performance data
  • G07C5/085—Registering performance data using electronic data carriers
  • G07C5/0858—Registering performance data using electronic data carriers wherein the data carrier is removable
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
  • G07C5/008—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles communicating information to a remotely located station

Definitions

• This invention relates to a method for managing data, and more particularly, to a method for managing data of a vehicle traveling data recorder.
• a vehicle traveling data recorder is an electronic device for recording a vehicle' s traveling speed, time, mileage and other status information.
• the formation of a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) system is shown in Fig. 1.
• the figure includes a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) device mentioned above which is usually fitted on-board, a card reader, a series of cards (such as a workshop card, a driver's card and a company card) adapted for using with the card reader, and a computer.
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• COM serial port
• USB port USB port
• driver' s card or a company card by communication via the USB port
• user-friendly graphic interface it provides to users functions such as data communication, data display (tables and graphs) , data searching, data statistics, data printing, historical data analysis and management, etc.
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system
• a computer usually a PC
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• Driver Card a device for identifying the status of a driver using a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) system
• Company Card a device for collecting data in a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) system
• Smart Card Component a functional entity responsible for communicating with a card reader and a smart card
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• driver card driver card
• control interfaces such as those interfaces to open or shut the component, or to judge the component's status as open or shut.
• driver card or the workshop card interfaces relating to security, such as for changing passwords, for verifying passwords, etc.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• inter-dependency between the components is shown in many aspects, for example, the data in the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component are displayed via the user interface component, while the data are stored in the database component. Furthermore, the data in a driver card need to be synchronized with the data in the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) . Such inter-dependency between the components further increases the system' s complexity.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• a company fleet it is needed to develop a system version to collect vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) data and to manage driver cards
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• a workshop it is needed to develop a system version for standardized vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) data and to manage workshop cards
• an authority it is needed to develop a system version to create workshop cards and to distribute the workshop cards.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• the main object of this invention is to provide a design method for a vehicle travelling data recorder' s data management software system, which can solve the problem of complicated interfaces between the components in this software system, and at the same time to eliminate the inter-dependency between the components in this software system and also to give this software system a good scalability.
• a method for managing data of a vehicle traveling data recorder in which at least one smart card component, at least one vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, at least one database component and at least one user interface component are set in a vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system (VDRDMS) , and according to this invention, a mediator component is further set in the vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system (VDRDMS) , so that said smart card component, said vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, said database component and said user interface component are connected respectively via said mediator component to said other components.
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder
• a communication protocol between the mediator component and the other components is defined.
• the communication protocol between the mediator component and the other components includes a target component parameter for identifying the other components which communicate with the mediator component; a communication port parameter for identifying the port used by the other components to communicate with external equipment; a communication category parameter for identifying the category of communication between the mediator component and the other components; and a communication command parameter for identifying the communication command between the mediator component and the other components.
• the communication protocol between the mediator component and the other components further includes at least one input parameter for identifying the parameter input from the external equipment to the other components; at least one output parameter for identifying the parameter output from the other components to the external equipment.
• the input parameter and output parameter may exist, but also may not exist.
• the target component that communicates with the mediator component can be the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, the smart card component, the database component or the user interface component.
• the mediator component, the smart card component, the database component and the user interface component are all abstract components.
• the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component can be an abstract component, but also a concrete component. If the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component is a concrete component, then there exists at least one vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• the above components can be used to create concrete examples and to form different configurations or different star-like topological structures.
• the value range of the communication port parameter is from COMl to COM255, and a USB port.
• the communication category parameter for the communication between the mediator component and a target component can be a data parameter, a control parameter or a security parameter.
• the smart card component has a layered sub-structure.
• the layered substructure includes an interface layer, an abstract card layer, a card operation system instruction layer and a card communication layer.
• the interface layer provides to the mediator component all the functions for managing the smart card;
• the abstract card layer includes a card data part and a card security part, with the card data defining an abstract card, and in different versions, the abstract card is able to create concrete examples, and with the card security providing functions relevant to security, including changing a password, decoding a password, authenticating a card and locking a card;
• the card operation system instruction layer provides to the abstract card layer a card operation system usable instruction; and the card communication layer provides a standard PC/SC instruction set.
• the smart card component includes a workshop card, a driver card, a company card and a police card.
• VDRDMS VDRDMS of this invention
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system
• VDRDMS VDRDMS
• the connection between the components is changed from the web-like structure in prior art into the star-like structure in this invention, which has significantly reduced the degree of complexity in the connection between the components;
• the abstract card layer in this sub-structure includes a card data part, which allows the smart card component to be created into different card categories in application, so as to significantly enhance the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) software system's scalability.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• mediator components and user interface components are used in this invention, and at the same time, different smart cards, databases, or vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) devices are assembled and configured by the mediator component into an integrated assembly, so that different software systems can be produced according to different user groups to fully satisfy the demands of different user groups.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• Fig. 1 is an illustrating diagram of the system structure of a vehicle traveling data recorder.
• Fig. 2 is an illustrating diagram of the design method for the data management software of a vehicle traveling data recorder in this invention.
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system
• the external system includes a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR), a card reader and various cards, such as workshop card, driver card, company card, etc.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• VDRDMS communicates and exchanges data with the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component via a serial port (COM RS232) or a USB port; also communicates and exchanges data via the USB port with the smart card component, such as a driver card or a company card; and via a user- friendly graphic interface provides to a user data communication, data display (tables and graphs), data search, data statistics, data printing, historical data analysis and management, and other functions.
• the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component and the smart card component are device-related software components.
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system
• Embodiment 1 a user interface requests the locking of a workshop card.
• a vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system comprises a smart card component, a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, a database component and a user interface component, and according to this invention, the vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system (VDRDMS) further comprises a mediator component. Due to the existence of this mediator component, any of the other components is connected to the mediator component via three interfaces, therefore all the components form a star-like structure with the mediator component at the center. These three interfaces are, respectively, a data interface, a control interface and a security interface. During the practical operation of the system, except the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, all the other abstract components can be made into concrete examples.
• the definition of locking is to write the data on a user interface into a workshop card, and once it is written in, it would no longer be able to write again. If a user interface requests the locking of a workshop card, the user interface issues a command first to examine whether the workshop card is in existence and whether it is a legal workshop card; if the workshop card is not in existence or is not qualified, no further operation will be performed. If the workshop card exists and is a qualified one, the data on the user interface will be written into this workshop card.
• the mediator component coordinates all of the following operations, and all these operations are performed through the mediator component.
• the write-in process is divided into three parts, this is because the data interface can write only one piece of data each time, the write-in process can only be completed by writing through the data interface three times.
• These three writing procedures are respectively an application identification procedure for reporting to the system the information such as card category, etc.; an identification procedure for reporting to the system the information about card number, the person who has issued the card, the effective date of the card, etc.; and a workshop information procedure for reporting to the system the workshop information.
• After having written the above data from the user interface into the workshop card the above data are written from the user interface into the database, as a backup of the above data.
• an operation return value such as write-success, write- failure, abnormality-occurred, etc. is sent via the mediator component back to the user interface, informing the user interface the results of the write-operation.
• Embodiment 2 communication between the mediator component and the other components.
• the vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system comprises a smart card component, a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, a database component and a user interface component, and according to this invention, the vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system (VDRDMS) further comprises a mediator component.
• VDRDMS vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system
• a communication protocol between the mediator component and the other components is defined as follows:
• ⁇ SErrRec' is a return value, indicating whether the communication between the mediator component and the other components is a success or failure.
• ⁇ EDeviceID eDID' is a parameter of a target component, which is the target component being in communication with the mediator component.
• This target component being in communication with the mediator component can be the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, the smart card component, the database component or the user interface component.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• the mediator component, the smart card component, the database component and the user interface component are all abstract components. During the communication process, an abstract component can create a concrete example.
• EPortID ePID' is a communication port parameter for identifying the port used by the vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) software system in communicating with external equipment.
• the value range of the communication port parameter is an integer from 1 to 255, including 1 and 255 or it is the
• ⁇ ECmdType eCType' is a communication category parameter for identifying the category of the communication between the mediator component and the target component. This communication category parameter can be a data parameter, a control parameter or a security parameter.
• ⁇ ECmdID eCID' is a communication command parameter for identifying the command for communication between the components. Corresponding to each communication category parameter between the components, there is a different communication command parameter.
• ⁇ object inObj' is an input parameter for identifying the input from the external equipment into the components.
• ⁇ object outObj' is an output parameter for identifying the output from the components to the external equipment.
• Embodiment 3 adding new component or card into the system.
• the vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system comprises a smart card component, a vehicle traveling data recorder (VDR) communication component, a database component and a user interface component, and according to this invention, the vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system (VDRDMS) further comprises a mediator component.
• the smart card component comprises company card, workshop card or driver card. Adding a device into the vehicle traveling data recorder data management software system (VDRDMS) includes two cases, i.e. adding a component and adding a card.
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• the smart card component is a layered sub-structure.
• the layered sub-structure includes an interface layer, an abstract card layer, a card operating system instruction layer and a card communication layer.
• the interface layer provides all the functions for card management;
• the abstract card layer includes a card data part and a card security part, and the card data part defines an abstract card CCard as follows:
• VDR vehicle traveling data recorder
• the other parts of the smart card can be re-used.
• the card security provides security-related functions, such as changing password, decoding password, card authentication and card locking;
• the card operation system instruction layer provides instructions which can be used by the card operation system, and provides these instructions for serving the abstract card layer;
• the card communication layer provides a standard PC/SC instruction set, helping different companies to communicate with one another.

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