Patent ID: 8725135

Claim:
A system, comprising: at least one mobile terminal, wherein the mobile terminal is a mobile telephone, a personal digital assistant, a notebook computer, or a mobile entertainment device; a motor vehicle, coupled to the at least one mobile terminal by a communication interface; a software version transmission device provided in the mobile terminal and arranged to transmit a software version message, wherein the software version transmission device specifies which sequence controllers and/or control unit data are to be stored and/or installed in one or more control units of the motor vehicle, wherein the software version message is transmitted to the mobile terminal and to a vehicle-external download device by the software version transmission device upon a technical error of the vehicle, which results in an entry in the error memory of the control unit, wherein the software version message is analyzed to ascertain whether the vehicle-external download device has one or more current sequence controllers and/or control unit data ready for downloading, wherein the one or more current sequence controllers and/or control unit data are downloaded via a communication link and the downloaded sequence controllers and/or control unit data are stored in the mobile terminal, and wherein the system also includes an updating device, which stores and/or installs the sequence controllers and/or control unit data stored in the mobile terminal in at least one affected control unit.