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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2015
Lear Corporation, Southfield, MI (US);
Douglas S Moeller, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Ronald W Pashby, San Francisco, CA (US);
Courtney Joe Holmes, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
LEAR CORPORATION, Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
A centralized system for real-time monitoring widely distributed software updates of vehicle components, comprises: an arbitration server; a distributed network comprising a plurality of communication servers; a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles comprising a telematics control unit (TCU) operable to communicate with one communication server of said plurality of communication servers, each TCU is adapted to receive and deploy software updates to electronic control units (ECUs) within its corresponding vehicle, and said TCU is operable to generate status updates for software updates and communicate the status updates to the corresponding communication server; and each communication server is operable to simultaneously receive data messages comprising status updates from the plurality of vehicles and to generate a data stream comprising the data messages, the data stream being sent to a log file.