Multiple chunk software updates

• US 10,140,110 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2014
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Vangelov, John, Petersen, Brian, Pandya, Ritesh, Yalavarty, Praveen
• Primary Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Ziaul A
• Application Number:
  US14/243,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20150286475A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,700 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

A system may include a vehicle-based computing system. The vehicle-based computing system may identify from a first software update chunk retrieved from a subscribed topic for receiving vehicle updates, a number of chunks of the update, retrieve additional chunks of the update by subscription to each of a sequence of subtopics to the subscribed topic, each subtopic associated with a respective remaining one of the number of chunks, and update the software utilizing the retrieved chunks.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a vehicle controller including a hardware processor programmed to

read, from a first subsection of a software update file retrieved from a topic of a topic tree for receiving vehicle updates, a number of subsections of the file,

retrieve additional subsections of the file from a sequence of subtopics of the topic, each subtopic associated with a respective remaining one of the number of subsections, and

update the software utilizing the retrieved subsections.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to read the number of subsections according to a number-of-subsections field included in header information of the retrieved first software update subsection.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to subscribe to the topic for receiving vehicle updates upon receiving an update notification in one of:

(i) a first notification topic for receiving notification of updates associated with a software version installed to the vehicle or (ii) a second notification topic for receiving notifications of updates associated with a unique identifier of the vehicle.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the update notification specifies a notification configuration file, and the processor is further programmed to determine a desired software version according to a version level of the software with which the configuration file indicates it is compatible.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

install a default configuration file for a version of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections, and

upon performing the update of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections, install the notification configuration file in place of the default configuration file.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the software update is configured to update a telematics unit of the vehicle.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to unsubscribe from the topic and unsubscribe from each of the sequence of subtopics to the topic upon performing the update of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections.

8. A method comprising:

reading by a computing system of a vehicle, from a first software update subsection retrieved from a topic of a topic tree for receiving vehicle updates, a number of subsections of the update;

retrieving additional subsections of the update from a sequence of subtopics of the topic, each subtopic associated with a respective remaining one of the number of subsections; and

updating the software utilizing the retrieved subsections.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising reading the number of subsections according to a number-of-subsections field included in header information of the retrieved first software update subsection.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising subscribing to the topic for receiving vehicle updates upon receiving an update notification in one of:

(i) a first notification topic for receiving notification of updates associated with a software version installed to the vehicle or (ii) a second notification topic for receiving notifications of updates associated with a unique identifier of the vehicle.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the update notification specifies a notification configuration file, and further comprising determining a desired software version according to a version level of the software with which the configuration file indicates it is compatible.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

installing a default configuration file for a version of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections, and

upon performing the update of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections, installing the notification configuration file in place of the default configuration file.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising applying the software update to a telematics unit of the vehicle.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising unsubscribing from the topic and unsubscribing from each of the sequence of subtopics of the topic upon performing the update of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that when executed by a computing system of a vehicle cause the vehicle to:

read, from a first software update subsection retrieved from a topic of a topic tree for receiving vehicle updates, a number of subsections of the update;

retrieve additional subsections of the update from a sequence of subtopics of the topic, each subtopic associated with a respective remaining one of the number of subsections; and

update the software utilizing the retrieved subsections.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further including instructions configured to cause the vehicle to read the number of subsections according to a number-of-subsections field included in header information of the retrieved first software update subsection.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further including instructions configured to cause the vehicle to subscribe to the topic for receiving vehicle updates upon receiving an update notification in one of:

(i) a first notification topic for receiving notification of updates associated with a software version installed to the vehicle or (ii) a second notification topic for receiving notifications of updates associated with a unique identifier of the vehicle.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the update notification specifies a notification configuration file, and further including instructions configured to cause the vehicle to determine a desired software version according to a version level of the software with which the configuration file indicates it is compatible.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further including instructions configured to cause the vehicle to:

install a default configuration file for a version of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections, and

upon performing the update of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections, install the notification configuration file in place of the default configuration file.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further including instructions configured to cause the vehicle to unsubscribe from the topic and unsubscribe from each of the sequence of subtopics of the topic upon performing the update of the software utilizing the retrieved subsections.