Patent ID: 11947945
Assignee: KIA CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method of updating software of a vehicle cluster, the method comprising:
connecting a universal serial bus (USB) device to a USB socket of a USB terminal;
determining whether a cluster software update file is present in a memory of the USB device, by a head unit;
when the cluster software update file is present, changing a USB host to a cluster; and
receiving the cluster software update file from the memory and updating software of the cluster, by the cluster,
wherein the head unit and the cluster transmit and receive data through the USB terminal, and
wherein the method further comprises
instructing, by the head unit, a HUB integrated circuit (IC) of the USB terminal to change a data transmission path through the USB device to a data transmission path through the cluster when the head unit transmits the data to the cluster, or
instructing, by the head unit, the HUB IC of the USB terminal to change the data transmission path through the USB device to a data transmission path through the head unit when the cluster transmits the data to the head unit.