Patent ID: 7054728
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: an onboard controller which is provided in a vehicle, and which executes processing in accordance with an onboard program; and a first storage medium including a data area in which vehicle condition data collected by an information collection controller of said onboard controller is stored; wherein when a command is given to rewrite the onboard program into a new onboard program, the vehicle condition data stored in said data area is written and saved in one of: (i) a storage area in said first storage medium which is different from said data area, and (ii) a second storage medium that is different from said first storage medium, and wherein rewrite processing is then executed to rewrite the onboard program into the new onboard program; and wherein when said rewrite processing is finished, the saved vehicle condition data is written back into said data area in the first storage medium.