METHOD OF MANAGING A SCHEDULE-BASED SOFTWARE PACKAGE UPDATE

摘要

A system and method of managing a vehicle software configuration includes: receiving from a user both a software package identifier for a software package that will be loaded onto a vehicle during a temporal period that is selected by the user and a vehicle identifier; identifying the software package associated with the software package identifier; wirelessly sending the software package from a central facility to the vehicle associated with the vehicle identifier for use during the user-selected temporal period; and storing the software package at the vehicle during the user-selected temporal period.

主权项

1. A method of managing a vehicle software configuration on one or more test vehicles used by vehicle engineers, comprising the steps of:
(a) receiving from a vehicle engineer (i) a vehicle identifier that is associated with at least one test vehicle, (ii) a software package identifier that is associated with a software package to be used by the vehicle engineer on the at least one test vehicle, and (iii) a preset schedule comprising a temporal period specified by the vehicle engineer that includes one or more temporal windows during which the vehicle engineer will use the software package on the test vehicle; (b) identifying one or more test vehicles using the vehicle identifier; (c) identifying the software package associated with the software package identifier; (d) wirelessly sending the software package from a central facility to the one or more test vehicles identified by the vehicle identifier for use during the engineer-specified temporal period; (d) storing the software package at the one or more test vehicles during the engineer-specified temporal period; and (e) using the software package on the one or more test vehicles during the temporal period while the one or more vehicles are being used by the vehicle engineer.