US 12,034,564 B2
Method for operating a vehicle electrical system, vehicle electrical system, and computing system
Andre Owerfeldt, Markgroeningen (DE); Florian Bosch, Tuebingen (DE); Lambros Dalakuras, Leonberg (DE); and Liem Dang, Ludwigsburg (DE)
Assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/674,157.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 104 421.9 (DE), filed on Feb. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0271969 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 12/40 (2013.01) [H04W 4/46 (2018.02); H04L 2012/40215 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40273 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a vehicle electrical system of a vehicle, the vehicle electrical system including at least one central vehicle computer, at least one intermediate control device, and at least one execution unit, wherein at least one of the at least one execution unit is assigned to each of the at least one intermediate control device, the vehicle electrical system being configured in an architecture in which the at least one central vehicle computer is assigned to a computational layer, the at least one intermediate control device is assigned to an intermediate layer, and the at least one execution unit is assigned to an execution layer, wherein the at least one intermediate control device is connected communicatively via a first communication system with the at least one central vehicle computer, and wherein the at least one execution unit is connected communicatively indirectly or directly via a second communication system with the intermediate control device assigned to it, the method comprising:
providing, on each of the at least one central vehicle computer, datasets of at least the intermediate control devices linked to the central vehicle computer, wherein in each dataset, interfaces are described for each of the execution units which are connected communicatively indirectly or directly via the second communication system with the intermediate control device associated with execution unit; and
executing, in the at least one central vehicle computer, an intermediate application via which, using a relevant one of the datasets, access is configured of applications executed on the central vehicle computer via a relevant one of the intermediate control devices to the execution units linked to the relevant one of the intermediate devices.