Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Ford Global Technology, LLC

Chad Evert Esselink

Michael Raymond Westra

Jeffrey Lee Hentschel

Tricia Tobolski

Yifan Chen

Basavaraj Tonshal

Pramita Mitra

Christopher Kirk Davey

Jovan Milivoje Zagajac

Daniel Joseph Madrid

Eric Marsman

Peter Treman

Uwe Zank

Jason Robert Brown

David Chase Mitchell

Wojciek Szumowski

Chad Christopher Boes

Andrew E Shaffer

Chiamin Lin

Rhett Tracy Schaefer

Michael Joseph Morgan

Safeeul Bashir Safee

Rajya Adibhatla

Gerald P Humphreys, Jr

Salwan H Ishac

Shabnam Hosseini

David Anthony Hatton

Sangeetha Sangameswaran

Jayanthi Rao

Mark Schunder

John Naum Vangelov

John Ellis

Julius Marchwicki

Simon John William Hurr

Darren Peter Shelcusky

Elizabeth Halash

David Chronowski

Kevin Burdette

Ninos Ziazadeh

Alan Daniel Gonzalez

David Ray Erkkila

Brendan Solan

Justin Counts

Simon John Hurr

George Edward Kimmerling

William Lawrence Frantz

A system includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of reports identifying file-chunk distribution among reporting vehicles. The processor is also configured to determine reseeding file chunks to improve distribution characteristics, responsive to the reports. The processor is further configured to determine a plurality of candidate delivery vehicles and responsive to determining that a distribution threshold has passed, send the reseeding file chunks to the determined delivery vehicles.

Method and apparatus for peer to peer distribution strategy for updates

A system includes a processor configured to, in response to a notification received from a remote network that an update to vehicle software is available, assemble a list of installed vehicle software versions. The processor is also configured to transmit the list of installed versions to a remote update server. The processor is further configured to receive a list of available updates compatible with the installed vehicle software versions in response to the transmission. Additionally, the processor is configured to download at least one of the available updates and install the downloaded updates.

Method and apparatus for over the air updates

Example embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for preventing vehicle mishaps. In an example method, a vehicle receives an alert signal from a personal transportation device. A driver of the vehicle may be made aware of the alert by a sound that is produced through a speaker system of the vehicle (for example, a ringing sound produced by a bicycle bell or a beep of a motorcycle horn). In some cases, an intensity and/or a directionality of the sound produced through the speaker system may provide location and/or distance information of the personal transportation device with respect to the vehicle. The vehicle may transmit an acknowledge signal to the personal transportation device. A rider of the personal transportation device may be informed of the acknowledgement via an audio announcement through a speaker mounted on the personal transportation device.

Systems and methods for providing proximity alerts between vehicles and personal transportation devices

A computing platform of a vehicle may receive a request, from a mobile application accessing a secure vehicle function, to create a secure tunnel between the computing platform and the mobile device; retrieve an application certificate from the mobile application; and validate the creation of the secure tunnel using the application certificate and a module certificate from a local policy table of the computing platform. A mobile device, connected to a computing platform of a vehicle may execute a mobile application requiring a secure vehicle function; send a request to create a secure tunnel with the computing platform responsive to access of by the mobile application of the secure vehicle function; and send to the computing platform an application certificate corresponding to the mobile application to validate creation of the secure tunnel.

Secure tunneling for connected application security

A system for a vehicle comprises a processor, programmed to responsive to receiving a manifest from a server, perform an over-the-air (OTA) software update while traveling along a route, wherein the manifest is generated remotely by the server using business rules designated by a manufacturer, predicted network connectivity speeds along the route, and estimated time to download the OTA software update.

Cloud-based dynamic optimization of vehicle software updates

A computer-implemented method includes receiving a restore command to restore a vehicle computing system (VCS) system state. The method further includes restoring a base system state to a known, functional state and obtaining a list of applications previously installed on the VCS. The method also includes for each application previously installed on the VCS, finding a version of the application compatible with the restored base system state. Also, the method includes installing the version of each application compatible with the restored base system state.

Methods and apparatus for software updating

A system includes a processor configured to receive a user request to edit vehicle feature settings from a computer remote from a vehicle. The processor is also configured to retrieve saved vehicle feature setting configurations associated with a vehicle associated with an identified user account. The processor is further configured to build a current feature setting configuration display. Also, the processor is configured to present a user-configurable version of the display on a user interface. The processor is additionally configured to receive changes to current features setting configurations. The processor is also configured to save the changes and upload the changes to the vehicle.

Method and apparatus for persistent transferrable customizable vehicle settings

A computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a cloud server by a vehicle, a manifest indicating network locations of software updates determined according to an interrogator log generated by the vehicle; installing update binaries retrieved from the network locations to an inactive installation of a plurality of storage installations; and setting the inactive installation to be an active installation upon vehicle restart, in place of another of the storage installation currently set as the active partition.

Silent in-vehicle software updates

A computer-implemented authentication method includes receiving a request to access one or more features of a vehicle computing system (VCS) from an application running on a wireless device in communication with the VCS. The method further includes preparing a secure access rights request to a remote server including one or more characteristics associated with the application and sending the secure request from the VCS, through the wireless device to the remote server. The method additionally includes receiving a response to the request having been sent from the remote server through the wireless device. The method includes verifying the authenticity of the received response and updating a policy table including information from the received response, the information including at least an expiration trigger and access rights for the application. Also, the method includes validating the application for usage based at least on the information included in the updated policy table.

Method and apparatus for remote authentication

A system includes a processor configured to receive vehicle coordinates. The processor is also configured to compare the vehicle coordinates to geo-fence coordinate sets of a plurality of geo-fences surrounding point of interest (POI), wherein at least a portion of each geo-fence is within some predetermined distance from the vehicle coordinates. The processor is further configured to receive information relating to the POI if the vehicle coordinates fall within the geo-fence coordinates and instruct presentation of the received information to vehicle occupants.

Method and apparatus for enhanced driving experience including dynamic POI identification

In a first illustrative embodiment, a system includes a mobile device processor configured to communicate wirelessly with both a remote server and a vehicle computing system (VCS). The processor is further configured to query the VCS for a module version, relay the module version to a remote system and receive information relating to an updated module version and module. The processor is also configured to query the VCS for vehicle battery information, inform a user of battery sufficiency for a recommended installation of the updated module, and, responsive to a user instruction to proceed with installation, instruct the VCS to download and install the updated module.

Methods and apparatus for vehicle computing system software updates

A vehicle system includes a communication interface and a processing device. The processing device determines a proximity of a host vehicle to a target location. When the proximity to the target location is less than a predetermined value, the processing device commands the communication interface to transmit the target location to a parking server. In response, the processing device receives a message identifying at least one parking zone from the parking server.

Parking service

Method and apparatus for software updating

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Canton, MI, United States of America

Chad Evert Esselink