Patent ID: 8798852
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for authenticating a first plurality of components operably coupled to a vehicle via a first authentication method and authenticating a second plurality of components operably coupled to the vehicle via a second authentication method that differs from the first authentication method, wherein the first plurality of components and the second plurality of components include at least one different component, and wherein a portable electrical power storage device is common to both the first plurality and the second plurality of components, the system comprising: a vehicle controller; at least one communications interface communicably coupled to the vehicle controller, a non-rewriteable portion of a respective nontransitory storage media carried by each of the first plurality of components, and a respective nontransitory storage media carried by each of the second plurality of components; at least one controller-readable, nontransitory, storage communicably coupled to the vehicle controller and having stored therein at least data indicative of a manufacturer-specific authentication string used in the first authentication method, data indicative of a vehicle-specific authentication code used in the second authentication method, and at least one machine executable instruction set that when executed by the vehicle controller, causes the vehicle controller to: authenticate each of the first plurality of components via the first authentication method by causing the vehicle controller to: authenticate each of the second plurality of components via the second authentication method by causing the vehicle controller to: