Granted Patent B2

US 12,346,686 · App. 18/731,587 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Inventors: Kunihiro Miyauchi (Toyota, JP); Isao Watanabe (Nagoya, JP); Hiroya Andou (Toyota, JP)

Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

G06F8/65H04L67/34H04W4/48G07C5/008

Abstract

Claims (28)

1. A program update system comprising:

a vehicle including a first electronic device and a second electronic device; and

a program transmission device configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device to the vehicle, wherein

the second electronic device is configured to store data received from the program transmission device,

the first electronic device does not have a sufficient storage area to simultaneously store a current program that is a current version of a program to be executed by the first electronic device and an update program that is an updated version of the current program,

the second electronic device is configured to communicate with the program transmission device and the first electronic device, and has a sufficient storage area to simultaneously store the current program and the update program,

the program transmission device is configured to transmit, upon receiving a request from the vehicle, first data representing the current program and second data representing the update program to the vehicle,

the second electronic device is configured to receive and store the first data and the second data,

the second electronic device is configured to be able to execute an update process of changing a program stored in the first electronic device from the current program to the update program based on the second data stored in the second electronic device,

the second electronic device is configured to be able to execute, after the update process, a restoration process for restoring the program stored in the first electronic device to the current program from the update program, based on the first data stored in the second electronic device, and

the second electronic device is configured to delete the first data representing the current program in response to a completion of the restoration process for restoring the program stored in the first electronic device to the current program from the update program.

2. The program update system according to claim 1 , wherein the restoration process is performed in response to a user's instruction to initiate the restoration process.

3. The program update system according to claim 1 , wherein the first electronic device is configured to perform a predetermined operation test, after execution of the update process, and the second electronic device is configured to execute the restoration process when a result of the predetermined operation test falls outside an allowable range.

4. The program update system according to claim 1 , wherein the second data representing the update program is data representing a difference between the update program and the current program.

5. The program update system according to claim 1 , wherein the first data representing the current program is data representing a difference between the current program and the update program.

6. The program update system according to claim 1 , wherein the second electronic device is configured to delete the second data in response to a completion of the update process.

7. A method of controlling a program update system comprising:

controlling a program transmission device to communicate with a vehicle including a first electronic device and a second electronic device, and transmit a program for the first electronic device to the vehicle, wherein the second electronic device is configured to store data received from the program transmission device, the first electronic device does not have a sufficient storage area to simultaneously store a current program that is a current version of a program to be executed by the first electronic device and an update program that is an updated version of the current program, and the second electronic device is configured to communicate with the program transmission device and the first electronic device, and has a sufficient storage area to simultaneously store the current program and the update program,

controlling the program transmission device to transmit, upon receiving a request from the vehicle, first data representing the current program and second data representing the update program to the vehicle,

controlling the second electronic device to receive and store the first data and the second data,

controlling the second electronic device to execute an update process of changing a program stored in the first electronic device from the current program to the update program based on the second data stored in the second electronic device,

controlling the second electronic device to execute, after the update process, a restoration process for restoring the program stored in the first electronic device to the current program from the update program, based on the first data stored in the second electronic device, and

controlling the second electronic device to delete the first data representing the current program in response to a completion of the restoration process for restoring the program stored in the first electronic device to the current program from the update program.

8. The method of controlling a program update system according to claim 7 , wherein the restoration process is performed in response to a user's instruction to initiate the restoration process.

9. The method of controlling a program update system according to claim 7 , wherein the first electronic device performs a predetermined operation test, after execution of the update process, and the second electronic device executes the restoration process when a result of the predetermined operation test falls outside an allowable range.

10. The method of controlling a program update system according to claim 7 , wherein the second data representing the update program is data representing a difference between the update program and the current program.

11. The method of controlling a program update system according to claim 7 , wherein the first data representing the current program is data representing a difference between the current program and the update program.

12. The method of controlling a program update system according to claim 7 , wherein the second electronic device deletes the second data in response to a completion of the update process.

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