Patent ID: 11886865
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A method, comprising:
determining an update plan identifying a plurality of portions of software data to be updated in a plurality of computers including a first computer and a second computer;
then obtaining status data from the respective computers in the plurality of computers, wherein the status data for a respective computer identifies portions of the software data maintained in the respective computer;
based on determining from the status data that the first portion of the software data for updating an operational feature of the first computer is stored in the first computer, that the second portion of the software data is stored in the second computer, and that a third portion is lacking in both the first computer and the second computer, encoding, in a server computer, the first portion, the second portion to generate encoded data;
sending, from the server computer, the encoded data via wireless data transfer to the first and second computers along with the third portion that is unencoded;
decoding, in the first computer, the second portion from the received encoded data;
updating the operational feature of the first computer based on the stored first portion and the decoded second portion; and
operating the first computer based on the updated operational feature.