APPLICATION PROGRAM DOWNLOAD AND UPDATE METHOD FOR VEHICLE DEVICE

• US 20150309782A1
• Filed: 04/28/2014
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CHEN, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US14/264,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20150309782A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

The present invention relates to an application program download and update method for vehicle device. The method includes installing a proprietary micro-management application program in a mobile device, and when a network server has an update file for a vehicle device, the network server pushes an update note to the mobile device. The user is then able to download the update file to the mobile device and, through a connection between the mobile device and the vehicle device, transmit the update file from the mobile device to the vehicle device to run a program update of the vehicle device. The vehicle owner is thus able to download the update program to update the vehicle device himself, thereby eliminating the formality and inconvenience of having to return the vehicle for servicing.

Claims

1. An application program download and update method for vehicle device, comprising the following steps:

a, installing a proprietary micro-management application program in a mobile device, wherein the proprietary micro-management application program is used to manage program update of a vehicle device; and

connecting the mobile device to the vehicle device, whereupon the vehicle device transmits back the program version information of the vehicle device to a network server;

b, performing a comparison of the program version of the vehicle device by the network server;

if the program version of the vehicle device is an older version, then the network server pushes an update note to the mobile device paired with the vehicle device;

c, displaying the update note on the screen of the mobile device, opening the proprietary micro-management application program of the mobile device, pressing a Yes key to agree to run the program, and downloading and storing an update file in the mobile device;

d, connecting the mobile device to the vehicle device, whereupon the network server notifies the vehicle device to run the update program, the vehicle device then displays information on the updated version and advises opening a proprietary micro-management application program window on the mobile device; and

e, pressing the Yes key to agree to run the updated version, whereupon the mobile device transmits the update file to the vehicle device, and the vehicle device retrieves the update program from the update file and updates the vehicle device.

2. The aforementioned application program download and update method for vehicle device as described in claim 1, further comprising the following step:

f, transmitting back an update completion note by the vehicle device after updating thereof, whereupon the mobile device transmits the update completion note to the network server, and the network server makes a record of the updated version of the vehicle device.

3. The aforementioned application program download and update method for vehicle device as described in claim 1, wherein the vehicle device is paired with a plurality of mobile devices.

4. An application program download and update method for vehicle device, comprising the following steps:

a, installing a proprietary micro-management application program in a mobile device, wherein the proprietary micro-management application program is used to manage program update of a vehicle device, when connecting the mobile device to the vehicle device, the proprietary micro-management application program makes a record of the program version of the vehicle device, and the mobile device transmits back the program version information of the vehicle device to a network server;

b, performing a comparison of the program version of the vehicle device by the network server, if the program version of the vehicle device is an older version, then the network server pushes an update note to the mobile device paired with the vehicle device;

c, displaying update information on a screen of the mobile device, opening the proprietary micro-management application program of the mobile device, pressing a Yes key to agree to run the program, and downloading and storing an update file in the mobile device;

d, connecting the mobile device to the vehicle device, whereupon the network server notifies the vehicle device to run the update program, the vehicle device then displays information on the updated version and advises opening the proprietary micro-management application program window on the mobile device; and

e, pressing the Yes key to agree to run the updated version, whereupon the mobile device transmits the update file to the vehicle device, the vehicle device retrieves the update program from the update file and updates the vehicle device.

5. The application program download and update method for vehicle device as described in claim 4, further comprising the following step:

f, transmitting back an update completion note by the vehicle device after updating thereof, whereupon the mobile device transmits the update completion note to the network server, and the network server makes a record of the updated version of the vehicle device.

6. The application program download and update method for vehicle device as described in claim 4, wherein the vehicle device is paired with a plurality of mobile devices.

7. An application program download and update method for vehicle device, comprising:

a, installing a proprietary micro-management application program in a mobile device, wherein the proprietary micro-management application program is used to manage program update of a vehicle device, when connecting the mobile device to the vehicle device, the proprietary micro-management application program makes a record of the program version of the vehicle device, and the mobile device transmits back the program version information of the vehicle device to the network server;

b, performing a comparison of the program version of the vehicle device by the network server, If the program version of the vehicle device is an older version, then the network server pushes an update note to the mobile device paired with the vehicle device and the vehicle device;

c, displaying update information on a screen of the mobile device, opening the proprietary micro-management application program of the mobile device, pressing a Yes key to agree to run the program, and downloading and storing an update file in the mobile device;

d, connecting the mobile device to the vehicle device, whereupon the network server notifies the vehicle device to run the update program, the vehicle device then displays information on the updated version and advises opening the proprietary micro-management application program window on the mobile device; and

e, pressing the Yes key to agree to run the updated version, whereupon the mobile device transmits the update file to the vehicle device, and the vehicle device retrieves the update program from the update file and updates the vehicle device.

8. The application program download and update method for vehicle device as described in claim 7, further comprising the following step:

f, transmitting back an update completion note by the vehicle device after updating thereof, whereupon the mobile device transmits the update completion note to the network server, and the network server makes a record of the updated version of the vehicle device.

9. The application program download and update method for vehicle device as described in claim 7, wherein the vehicle device is paired with a plurality of mobile devices.

10. The application program download and update method for vehicle device as described in claim 7, wherein step c further comprises displaying update information on the screen of the vehicle device, pressing a Yes key to agree to run the program, and downloading and storing an update file in the mobile device.