System and method for updating vehicle computing platform configuration information
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsThomas Hermann, Timothy P. Curtis
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a computing platform configured with first configuration information, an identification module that receives driver identification information and determines whether to enable the computing platform based on the identification information, and a communication module that establishes communications between the computing platform and an off-vehicle information store storing second configuration information if the computing platform is enabled. The vehicle also includes an update module that updates the computing platform with the second configuration information if the second configuration information is different than the first configuration information.
Claims11
A vehicle comprising:
- a computing platform configured with first configuration information;
- an identification module configured to receive driver identification information and determine whether to enable the computing platform based on the identification information;
- a communication module configured to, if the computing platform is enabled, establish communications between the computing platform and an off-vehicle information store storing second configuration information;
- and
- an update module configured to update the computing platform with the second configuration information if the second configuration information is different than the first configuration information.
A method for updating first configuration information of a vehicle computing platform comprising:
- receiving driver identification information;
- determining whether to enable the computing platform based on the identification information;
- establishing communications between the computing platform and an off-vehicle information store storing second configuration information if the computing platform is enabled;
- and
- updating the computing platform with the second configuration information if the second configuration information is different than the first configuration information.
A method for updating first configuration information of a vehicle computing platform comprising:
- determining whether to enable the computing platform based on driver identification information;
- establishing communications between the computing platform and an off-vehicle information store storing second configuration information if the computing platform is enabled;
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- updating the computing platform with the second configuration information if the second configuration information is different than the first configuration information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.