Patent ID: 11897500
Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 14:
15. A method for providing secrets to an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
at the autonomous vehicle:
determining a set of secrets to request at a secrets manager, wherein respective secrets of the set of secrets each include private digital authentication information for accessing a respective device in the autonomous vehicle, wherein each respective device has a data-configurable list of secrets to fetch;
transmitting a request for the set of secrets from the secrets manager to a central computing system secrets authenticator configured to provide secrets to a fleet of vehicles including the autonomous vehicle;
receiving, at the secrets manager on the autonomous vehicle, the set of secrets from the central computing system secrets authenticator;
saving, by the secrets manager, the set of secrets in an onboard memory;
providing access to respective secrets of the set of secrets to the respective devices in the autonomous vehicle, wherein the respective devices access the respective secrets in the onboard memory; and

at the central computing system secrets authenticator:
identifying the autonomous vehicle in a vehicle information database;
authenticating the autonomous vehicle, based in part on the identification;
identifying selected secrets from a secrets vault to fulfill the request; and
transmitting the selected secrets to the secrets manager.