CENTER DEVICE, VEHICLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL SYSTEM, PROGRAM UPDATE PROGRESS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM UPDATE PROGRESS CONTROL PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20210149659A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-20

    申请号:US17093691

    申请日:2020-11-10

    Abstract: A vehicle electronic control system includes a center device and a vehicle master device. The center device includes: a campaign information obtainer obtaining campaign information of a program update; a vehicle state obtainer obtaining a vehicle state of a target vehicle of the program update; an execution requirement setter setting an execution requirement of a phase in the program update based on the campaign information obtained by the campaign information obtainer and the vehicle state obtained by the vehicle information obtainer; an execution requirement notifier notifying the vehicle master device of the execution requirement set by the execution requirement setter; and an update data deliverer delivering the update data to the vehicle master device.

    CENTER DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING DISTRIBUTION PACKAGE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING DISTRIBUTION PACKAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20230005305A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17943825

    申请日:2022-09-13

    Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a distribution package that is generated in advance is stored in a package DB, and information of a vehicle in which a target device is mounted is stored in a campaign DB. Vehicle related information includes a special flag indicating whether to generate a distribution package at that point in time. A package generation unit generates a distribution package upon receiving a package generation instruction and stores the distribution package in the package DB. When the special flag is in a reset state, the package generation unit reads the distribution package from the package DB and transfers the read distribution package to a package distribution unit. On the other hand, when the special flag is in a set state, the package generation unit generates a distribution package at that point in time.

    CENTER DEVICE AND VEHICLE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20220351555A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-03

    申请号:US17866891

    申请日:2022-07-18

    Abstract: An individual vehicle information database of a center device has a waiting queue used to sequentially write a plurality of individual vehicle information transferred by an individual vehicle information registration unit. When attempting to transfer individual vehicle information sent from a master device to the individual vehicle information database, the individual vehicle information registration unit refers to the waiting queue, and if a write waiting number is less than a predetermined number, the individual vehicle information is stored in the waiting queue. If the write waiting number is at least the predetermined number, the individual vehicle information is stored in the waiting queue if any of individual vehicle information has content satisfying a write priority condition. If all of the individual vehicle information have content not satisfying the write priority condition, the vehicle information is not stored in the waiting queue.

    CENTER DEVICE, DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISTRIBUTION CONTROL

    公开(公告)号:US20220075883A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17404372

    申请日:2021-08-17

    Abstract: A center device includes: a consent request unit that is configured to make a consent request to a plurality of devices for data distribution to a vehicle; a consent determination unit that is configured to judge a consent response from each of the plurality of devices; a distribution control unit that is configured to control the data distribution to the vehicle according to a determination result by the consent determination unit; and a necessity determination unit that is configured to determine whether the consent request to the plurality of devices is needed before the consent request are made to the plurality of devices. The consent request unit is further configured to determine whether to make the consent request to the plurality of devices according to a determination result by the necessity determination unit.

    VEHICLE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210157567A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-27

    申请号:US17166610

    申请日:2021-02-03

    Abstract: In a vehicle information communication system, a center device includes an individual vehicle configuration information storage unit in which configuration information transmitted from a plurality of vehicles is stored in such a form that transmission timings are specifiable, a campaign information storage unit in which campaign identification information and target vehicle identification information for identifying data update target vehicles are stored as campaign information related to data update for vehicle. The center device refers to the campaign storage unit and the individual vehicle configuration information storage unit, and when there is no transmission of the configuration information from the target vehicle for a predetermined period of time, transmits a message for urging data update to the in-vehicle device of the target vehicle.

    VEHICLE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210157566A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-27

    申请号:US17166453

    申请日:2021-02-03

    Abstract: When configuration information regarding configurations of respective devices are received from electronic control units, the in-vehicle device generates a hash value based on data values of the configuration information, and transmits the hash value to a center device. The center device compares the hash value received from the in-vehicle device with a hash value of configuration information of the vehicle stored in a vehicle-side configuration information storage unit of the center device, and notifies the in-vehicle device of a full data transmission request for transmitting all data values of the configuration information when both of the hash values do not match each other. When the in-vehicle device is notified of the full data transmission request, the in-vehicle device transmits all of the data values of the configuration information to the center device.

    CENTER DEVICE, DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXECUTING RESTRICTION ON FUNCTION OF DATA

    公开(公告)号:US20210375079A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:US17403464

    申请日:2021-08-16

    Abstract: A center device includes a distribution control unit that is configured to control distribution of data to a plurality of vehicles; a defect detection unit that is configured to detect a defect in the data that was distributed; a restriction execution unit that is configured to cause the plurality of vehicles to restrict a function and/or performance of the data from which the defect is detected; and a grouping unit that divides the plurality of vehicles as restriction targets into groups according to contents of restriction on the function and/or performance. The restriction execution unit is further configured to cause the plurality of vehicles to restrict the function and/or performance of the data from which the defect is detected for each of the groups that are divided by the grouping unit.

    VEHICLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL SYSTEM, PROGRESS SCREEN DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

    公开(公告)号:US20210157573A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-27

    申请号:US17168738

    申请日:2021-02-05

    Abstract: A vehicle electronic control system includes a mode determination unit that is configured to determine whether a customization mode for a screen display related to an approval to a program update is set through a user's customization operation, and a screen display instruction unit that is configured to instruct the display terminal to display a progress screen of the program update according to a current update phase and a setting of the customization mode when the mode determination unit determines that the customization mode is set and instruct the display terminal to display the progress screen of the program update according to the current update phase and an initial setting when the mode determination unit determines that the customization mode is not set. The display terminal is configured to display the progress screen of the program update as instructed by the screen display instruction unit.

    CENTER DEVICE, SPECIFICATION DATA GENERATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING SPECIFICATION DATA

    公开(公告)号:US20210157529A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-27

    申请号:US17168653

    申请日:2021-02-05

    Abstract: In an ECU reprogram data DB of a center device, data of an update program for a target ECU for a program update among a plurality of EUCs mounted in a vehicle is stored. In a configuration information DB, an “ECU ID” corresponding to each ECU and vehicle-related information such as an “ECU SW ID” for each application program stored in the ECU are stored along with the vehicle type. An ECU metadata database stores update data-related information pertaining to update data and attributes of the rewrite target ECU. A specification data generation unit generates specification data, based on the information stored in the configuration information database and the information stored in the ECU metadata database, to be transmitted to the vehicle together with update data to be written in the target ECU such that the data includes information related to the type, attributes, and update data for the target ECU and information indicative of a rewrite environment related to the data update.

    VEHICLE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200241771A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-30

    申请号:US16847703

    申请日:2020-04-14

    Abstract: A vehicle information communication system includes a vehicle device and a center device. The center device includes a storage unit, a center computer, and a center-device communication unit. The storage unit stores memory structure information for each of the ECUs. The memory structure information indicates whether a corresponding memory has a memory structure that supports Read While Write (RWW) operation defined as having a plurality of physically independent memory regions. The center computer is programmed to generate specification data including the memory structure information for each of the at least one target ECUs. The vehicle device includes a vehicle computer. The vehicle computer is programmed to perform the program data rewrites of the at least one target ECU according to the memory structure information included in the specification data.

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