Patent ID: 7583967

Claim:
A method of transferring operating software of a motor vehicle to at least one mobile unit arranged in the motor vehicle, the method comprising: labeling of operating data with an identifier that assigns the operating data to the at least one mobile unit; providing a data stream which comprises a plurality of transmission units labeled with the identifier, wherein the data stream is receivable by a multitude of mobile units, and wherein a portion of the transmission units include portions of the labeled operating data of the motor vehicle; repeatedly transmitting the transmission units of the data stream by means of at least one transmission device via at least one transmission path; receiving the data stream by means of at least one receiving device of the at least one mobile unit in the motor vehicle; filtering of the transmission units from the data stream on the basis of their identifier from the received data stream in the at least one mobile unit in the motor vehicle; and re-assembling in the motor vehicle of the operating data from the filtered transmission units in the at least one mobile unit; wherein upon filtering of the transmission units from the data stream, the transmission units which are assigned to the at least one mobile unit on the basis of the identifier are stored to re-assemble the operating data into the operating software while other transmission units from the data stream are discarded; wherein the data stream with the transmission unit provided with the identifier is transmitted by a multitude of transmitting devices; and wherein the receiving device of the at least one mobile unit is configured to receive the transmission units transmitted by various transmitting devices.