Patent ID: 8209084
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G07C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A computer program management system for reliably testing computer program anomalies in a vehicular computer program memory, said system comprising: a vehicle control device having an executable computer program stored in a digital memory; and a management device managing the computer program of the vehicle control device, the vehicle control device and the management device communicating with each other, the vehicle control device comprising: a communication control unit that (a) receives a request for data, the request specifying a computing method, which is one of a plurality of preset computing methods, from the management device, (b) computes data pertaining to the computer program using the specified computing method to process the contents of at least a portion of said digital memory, and (c) transmits the computed data to the management device, the management device comprising: a computing method selecting unit that selects at least one computing method from said plurality of preset computing methods; a requesting unit that makes a request for data based on the selected computing method to the vehicle control device; and a data range determining unit that receives the data transmitted by the communication control unit of the vehicle control device based on the request by the requesting unit, and determines that there is no anomaly in the computer program installed in the vehicle control device when the received data is within a preset permissible range or that there is an anomaly in the computer program when the received data is out of the preset permissible range.