Patent ID: 8694198

Claim:
A method for accessing control units arranged in a vehicle using at least one vehicle communication interface, comprising: determining a combination of possible operations which require access to at least one of a plurality of control units arranged in vehicles, the possible operations including at least one of a control operation and a monitoring operation; identifying, by an identifier, a vehicle for which access to at least one of said plural control units is sought; determining the operations that are covered by the access that is sought; setting up a communication link over a selected vehicle communication interface; determining available communication devices covered by the selected vehicle communication interface; determining, from the possible operations covered by the access that is sought, at least one independent operation that is associated with the available communication devices and that is not dependent on a superordinate one of the operations covered by the access that is sought; for each available communication device, selecting one of the possible operations having a greatest number of subordinate operations for execution; and granting access to the communication devices and the control units associated with the one of the possible operations selected for execution.