US 11,698,783 B2
Server, software updating device, vehicle, software updating system, control method, and non-transitory storage medium
Satoru Fukuyo, Nisshin (JP); and Yusuke Satoh, Nisshin (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jul. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/366,196.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-126799 (JP), filed on Jul. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0027143 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 8/65 (2018.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 8/65 (2013.01) [H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control method executed by a computer of a server configured to transmit, to a vehicle, update data used in updating software of an in-vehicle device of the vehicle, the control method comprising:
receiving usage information representing a usage state of the vehicle; and
controlling, based on the usage information, a communication speed of communication between the vehicle and the server in transmitting the update data to the vehicle, wherein the controlling includes determining, based on the usage information, that a usage time is less than a threshold; and
controlling the communication speed such that, based on the determination that the usage information indicates that the usage time is less than the threshold, the communication speed with respect to the vehicle is made to be faster than when the usage information indicates that the usage time is not less than the threshold.