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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2020
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Matthew Lewis Floyd, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Leroy Luther Smith, Jr., Sandy Springs, GA (US);
Brittney Benzio, Atlanta, GA (US);
Nathan Barnard, Bloomington, IL (US);
Shannon Marie Lowry, Atlanta, GA (US);
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
A computer system for verifying vehicle software configuration may be provided. The computer system may include a processor and a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to: (1) transmit, to a vehicle computing system, an authentication request including a hash algorithm specification; (2) receive, from the vehicle computing system, a current configuration hash value and a vehicle identifier; (3) retrieve a trusted data block from a memory based upon the vehicle identifier, the trusted data block including a stored configuration hash value and a smart contract code segment; (4) execute the smart contract code segment, the smart contract code segment including a failsafe code segment; and/or (5) transmit the authentication response to the vehicle computing system, and cause the vehicle computing system to execute the failsafe code segment.