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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2014
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ritesh Pandya, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Brian Petersen, Beverly Hills, MI (US);
Joseph Paul Rork, Plymouth, MI (US);
Praveen Yalavarty, Novi, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle may gather vehicle build configuration information, and provide a vehicle identifier and the vehicle information to a server. The server may determine a feature set configuration of a configurable module of the vehicle based on the vehicle information and vehicle feature associations retrieved from a vehicle data source, and provide, in a message topic of a topic tree associated with the vehicle identifier to which the vehicle is subscribed, a notification to configure the configurable module. The vehicle may update a feature set configuration of a configurable module supporting a plurality of features based on the notification.