Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surrogate vehicle OTA update through V2X
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Application No.: US16744624Application Date: 2020-01-16
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Publication No.: US11409513B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Jerry John
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Agent Michael Spenner
- Main IPC: G06F8/65
- IPC: G06F8/65 ; H04W4/44 ; H04W4/46 ; B60W50/00 ; H04L67/00 ; G05D1/02

Abstract:
A first vehicle includes a wireless transceiver; and a processor programmed to responsive to encountering a second vehicle, establish a wireless connection to the second vehicle via the wireless transceiver and obtain a vehicle identification of the second vehicle, identify a software update for a controller of the second vehicle using the vehicle identification, wherein the software update is incompatible with the vehicle, responsive to connecting to a predefined wireless network, download the software update into a local storage, and responsive to reencountering the second vehicle, reconnect to the second vehicle via the wireless transceiver and transmit the software update to the second vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210224056A1 SURROGATE VEHICLE OTA UPDATE THROUGH V2X Public/Granted day:2021-07-22
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