VEHICLE DOWNLOAD BY REMOTE MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20150363210A1
• Filed: 06/12/2014
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: WEHRMAN, Edward, BANKOWSKI, Stefan, HALASH, Elizabeth
• Application Number:
  US14/303,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20150363210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

A nomadic device may be configured to receive an indication of a software update to download over a local data connection to a vehicle computing system, download the software update from an update server over an approved wide-area data connection unavailable to the nomadic device when located within the vehicle, and provide the software update to the vehicle computing system for installation to the vehicle. A vehicle computing system may be configured receive, from an update server, an indication of a software update, provide the indication, over a local connection, to a nomadic device configured to download software updates when connected to a wide-area data connection unavailable to the nomadic device when located within the vehicle, and receive the software update, downloaded when connected to the wide-area data connection, from the nomadic device over the local connection.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a nomadic device configured to

receive, over a local data connection to a computing system of a vehicle, an indication of a software update to be installed to the computing system,

download the software update from an update server over an approved wide-area data connection unavailable to the nomadic device when located within the vehicle, and

provide the software update to the computing system for installation to the vehicle.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to verify that the approved wide-area data connection is included in a predefined listing of approved connections for downloading software updates.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to verify that the approved wide-area data connection is included in a predefined listing of approved connection types for downloading software updates.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to provide the software update over the local data connection to the computing system.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is further configured to provide status information to the computing system indicating what portions of software updates have been downloaded by the nomadic device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the nomadic device is a mobile phone.

7. A system comprising:

a vehicle computing system configured to

receive, from an update server, an indication of a software update,

provide the indication, over a local connection, to a nomadic device configured to download software updates when connected to a wide-area data connection unavailable to the nomadic device when located within the vehicle, and

receive the software update, downloaded when connected to the wide-area data connection, from the nomadic device over the local connection.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the vehicle computing system is further configured to query the update server for software updates for the vehicle.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the vehicle computing system is further configured to receive consent from a user to utilize a nomadic device of the user to download software updates before providing the indication of the software update to the nomadic device.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein, upon installation of the software update, the vehicle computing system is further configured to provide a notification in a user interface that the software update has been installed to the vehicle.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the vehicle computing system is further configured to receive status information from the nomadic device indicating what portions of software updates have been downloaded to the nomadic device.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the nomadic device is a mobile phone.

13. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing, from a computing system of a vehicle to a nomadic device, an indication of a software update to be installed to the computing system, the nomadic device configured to download software updates when connected to a wide-area data connection unavailable to the nomadic device when located within the vehicle; and

receiving the software update from the nomadic device, downloaded by the nomadic device when connected to the wide-area data connection.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

querying an update server for software updates for the vehicle; and

receiving the indication of the software update to be installed from the update server responsive to the querying.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving consent from a user to utilize a nomadic device of the user to download software updates before providing the indication of the software update to the nomadic device.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising, upon installation of the software update, providing a notification in a user interface that the software update has been installed to the vehicle.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving status information from the nomadic device indicating what portions of software updates have been downloaded to the nomadic device.