US 10,705,822 B2Granted

Terminal device and software rewriting program

AssigneeYanmar Co., Ltd.

InventorsShunzo Yamashita, Shintaro Ishimoto, Masaki Matsuo, Yusuke Kojima

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Abstract

A terminal device for use in a software rewriting system configured to rewrite a software package of a control device mounted on a movable object, including: a wide area communication unit configured to communicate with a server via a wide area network; a storage unit; and a short-range wireless communication unit configured to communicate with the movable object via a short-range wireless communication network. The updating software package is received, via the wide area network and the wide area communication unit, from a server including an updating software database storing the updating software packages for updating the software package of the control device. The updating software package received from the server is stored in the storage unit. The updating software package stored in the storage unit is transmitted to the movable object, via the short-range wireless communication unit and a short-range wireless communication network.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A terminal device for use in a software rewriting system configured to rewrite one or more software packages of one or more control devices coupled to one or more vehicles, the terminal device comprising:

a wide area communication unit configured to communicate, via a wide area network, with a server having an updating software database configured to store one or more updating software packages for updating the one or more software packages of the one or more control devices;
a storage unit;
a short-range wireless communication unit configured to communicate with the one or more vehicles via a short-range wireless communication network;
a processor;
and
a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
initiate transmission of terminal identification information of the terminal device to the server via the wide area communication unit and the wide area network, wherein the terminal identification information corresponds to area information indicative of one or more control areas of the terminal device, and wherein the one or more vehicles are within the one or more control areas;
receive the one or more updating software packages from the server via the wide area communication network and the wide area network;
store the one or more updating software packages received from the server at the storage unit;
and
initiate transmission of at least one of the one of more updating software packages from the storage unit to the one or more vehicles via the short-range communication unit and the short-range communication network.

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Facts

Application: 16/081,358Filed 20 Feb 2017
Priority: JP 2016-0389271 Mar 2016
Published: US 2019/0026098 A124 Jan 2019
Granted: 7 Jul 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
G06F 8/311
Programming languages or programming paradigms: functional or applicative languages; Rewrite languages
H04L 67/34
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: involving the movement of software or configuration parameters
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…