US 12,074,952 B2
Software update device, software update method, and center
Yusuke Satoh, Nisshin (JP); Tomoyasu Ishikawa, Nagoya (JP); and Satoru Fukuyo, Nisshin (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,816.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-117847 (JP), filed on Jul. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0014604 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01)
CPC H04L 67/34 (2013.01) [H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 12/06 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A software update device configured to be controlled in response to a request from a mobile terminal device, the software update device comprising circuitry configured to:
acquire cooperation information indicating that connection of the mobile terminal device to a vehicle is made;
manage whether the mobile terminal device is permitted to execute interface processing related to a software update, which is determined in accordance with at least the cooperation information;
acquire execution notification information indicating that the mobile terminal device has notified a user that the software update is executed; and
restrict at least a part of control based on a function as an electronic key in response to a request from the mobile terminal device until the circuitry acquires the execution notification information after the software update is executed.