US 12,075,463 B2
Management device, communication system, vehicle, vehicle communication management method, and vehicle communication management program
Yusuke Yamamoto, Osaka (JP); Hideyuki Tanaka, Osaka (JP); Tatsuya Izumi, Osaka (JP); Junji Yano, Osaka (JP); Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Yokkaichi (JP); Tadashi Matsumoto, Yokkaichi (JP); and Takeshi Hagihara, Yokkaichi (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP); and AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Mie (JP)
Appl. No. 17/436,702
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); and AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/041025
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/179124, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-039558 (JP), filed on Mar. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183052 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/002 (2013.01) [H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 24/02 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management device comprising a processor,
the processor implementing:
a detection unit configured to detect addition of a function unit to a network including one or a plurality of on-vehicle function units;
a generation unit configured to acquire function unit information of a new function unit that is the function unit the addition of which has been detected by the detection unit, and function unit information of the on-vehicle function unit, and configured to generate, based on the respective pieces of function unit information acquired, configuration information of a new network that is the network in which the new function unit is further included;
an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a database in a storage device, feasibility information indicating feasibility of the new network and corresponding to the configuration information generated by the generation unit; and
a notification unit configured to specify, from among the new function unit and one or a plurality of function units included in the network before the addition of the new function unit, a function unit whose setting content needs to be changed for performing communication in the new network, and notify the specified function unit of a setting content for performing communication in the new network.