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

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a server computer, programmed to:
determine 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;
obtain 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, encode the first portion and the second portion to generate encoded data; and
send the encoded data via wireless data transfer to the first and second computers along with the third portion that is unencoded; and
the first computer, programmed to:
decode the second portion from the received encoded data;
update the operational feature of the first computer based on the stored first portion and the decoded second portion; and
operate the first computer based on the updated operational feature.