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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
May. 22, 2019
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Michael Edward Loftus, Northville, MI (US);
Andrew Stephen Barrett, Whitehall, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/164 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/252 (2019.01); G06F 16/313 (2019.01); G06F 16/322 (2019.01); G06F 16/9027 (2019.01);
Abstract
A method includes selecting, from a database, messages of a first electronic control (ECU) unit according to a specified datum that the first ECU is programmed to provide via a communications bus, generating a first file of the messages of the first ECU, sorting the messages in the first file according to a hierarchy that includes the specified datum, and outputting a third file describing a comparison of the first file and a second file that includes messages of a second ECU.