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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2001
William Leonard Aldrich, III, Davisburg, MI (US);
David P. Tasky, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus are provided for configuring an automobile electronic control module (ECM) for multiple automobile configurations. The apparatus includes a vehicle identifier identifying one of the multiple automobile configurations and a memory configured to store multiple calibration data sets, with each of the multiple calibration sets corresponding to one of the multiple automobile configurations. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to receive the vehicle identifier and select one of multiple calibration data sets based at least in part upon the vehicle identifier for execution of automobile functions controlled by the automobile ECM.