US 2025/0028522 A1 · PROGRAM UPDATE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SERVER

Abstract

A vehicle management server is configured to transmit, to a vehicle, an update program for updating an existing program of an electronic device mounted on the vehicle. The vehicle management server includes a communicator and a controller. The communicator is configured to communicate with the vehicle. The controller is configured to control an update process. The controller is configured to determine, depending on a type of the update program, whether to present, to a vehicle user, an indication related to the update process for the existing program using the update program, and transmit, when the controller determines to present the indication related to the update process to the vehicle user, information for causing a predetermined information terminal to display the indication related to the update process to the vehicle via the communicator.

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Dependent claims

A vehicle management server configured to transmit to a vehicle an update program for updating an existing program of an electronic device mounted on the vehicle, the vehicle management server comprising:

a communicator configured to communicate with the vehicle;
and
a controller configured when information indicating that a vehicle user sets permission for an automatic update is received from the vehicle via the communicator, and when a type of the update program is a type with a content to improve an existing function of the vehicle:
(i) to transmit information to notify the vehicle user only a notification of start of an update process and a notification of completion of the update process;
and
(ii) not to transmit information to notify the vehicle user of a permission request for execution of the update process.

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Program update system and vehicle management server

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