VEHICLE CONNECTION LOCATION REGIONAL SOFTWARE DELIVERY

• US 20170315797A1
• Filed: 05/02/2016
• Published: 11/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: VANGELOV, John Naum
• Application Number:
  US15/144,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20170315797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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

Abstract

A server identifies, based on an originating address of a request from a vehicle for software updates, a regional software delivery network to serve the software updates to the vehicle. The server determines the software updates to apply to the vehicle based on an interrogator log included in the request, and sends a manifest to the vehicle including links to the software updates served by the regional software delivery network. A network address of an update request from a vehicle may be mapped to a geographic region. A regional software delivery network serving the geographic region may be identified. A manifest including links to software updates served by the regional software delivery network may be sent to the vehicle, the manifest generated based on an interrogator log included in the update request.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a server programmed to;

identify, based on an originating address of a request from a vehicle for software updates, a regional software delivery network to serve the software updates to the vehicle,

determine the software updates to apply to the vehicle based on the request, and

send a manifest to the vehicle including links to the software updates served by the regional software delivery network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is further programmed to:

derive a region of the vehicle based on the originating address of the request; and

access data mapping originating addresses to identifiers of regions served by the regional software delivery networks to determine the regional software delivery network in the region of the vehicle.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the region is a country, and each regional software delivery network is configured to serve software updates to a different country.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is further programmed to:

receive the request from the vehicle over a secure hypertext protocol (HTTPS) connection, and

identify the originating address of the connection as an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the vehicle.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the request includes an interrogator log and is received by the server via a secure hypertext protocol (HTTPS) post.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the links to the software updates are specified as universal resource locators (URLs) served by one or more web servers of the regional software delivery network.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the links to the software updates are specified as a base universal resource locators (URL) of the regional software delivery network and relative links to the base URL.

8. A method comprising:

mapping a network address of an update request from a vehicle to a geographic region;

identifying a regional software delivery network serving the geographic region; and

sending a response including links to software updates served by the regional software delivery network to the vehicle, the response generated based on information included in the update request.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the geographic region is a country, and further comprising serving software updates by the regional software delivery network only to vehicles identified as within the country.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving the update request from the vehicle over a secure hypertext protocol (HTTPS) connection, and

identifying the network address as an originating Internet Protocol (IP) address of the connection.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving the information via a secure hypertext protocol (HTTPS) post.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising specifying, in the response, the links to the software updates as universal resource locators (URLs) served by one or more web servers of the regional software delivery network.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising specifying, in the response, the links to the software updates as a base universal resource locator (URL) of the regional software delivery network and relative links to the base URL.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a server, cause the server to:

identify, based on an originating Internet Protocol (IP) address of a secure hypertext protocol (HTTPS) connection from a vehicle, a regional software delivery network to serve the software updates to the vehicle;

determine the software updates to apply to the vehicle based on an interrogator log received from the vehicle over the connection; and

send a manifest to the vehicle including web links to the software updates served by the regional software delivery network.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14, further storing instructions that when executed cause the server to:

identify the regional software delivery network of the geographic region to serve the software updates based on the IP address.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the IP address identifies a country.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the web links to the software updates are specified as universal resource locators (URLs) served by one or more web servers of the regional software delivery network.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the web links to the software updated are specified in the manifest as a base universal resource locators (URL) of the regional software delivery network and relative links to the base URL.