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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2022
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Anthony J. Sumcad, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Russell A. Patenaude, Macomb Township, MI (US);
Christopher L Oesterling, Troy, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A system includes a source vehicle and a destination vehicle. The destination vehicle is configured to determine that the source vehicle and the destination vehicle are suitably close to exchange data through a wireless communications channel, compare current version numbers in the destination vehicle with approved version numbers in the source vehicle, approve an update for one or more current software components in the destination vehicle in response to one or more criteria, receive one or more approved software components at the destination vehicle from the source vehicle via the wireless communications channel in response to the current version numbers of the current software components approved for the update being different from corresponding ones of approved version numbers of the approved software components, and update the one or more current software components in the destination vehicle with the one or more approved software components received from the source vehicle.