US 12,466,418 B2
Method for operating a control device for a motor vehicle
Johannes Lang, Poxdorf (DE); and Claudia Tischendorf, Ingolstadt (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/303,994.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 109 637.8 (DE), filed on Apr. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406333 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 50/06 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01)
CPC B60W 50/06 (2013.01) [B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G06F 8/62 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. A motor vehicle comprising a control device, wherein the control device is configured to:
determine usage data describing a usage behavior for a function of a plurality of functions using a first software provided to the control device;
check, whether the usage data for the function is below a predetermined minimum usage based on the determined usage data;
based on the determining, using the checking, that the usage data for the function is below the predetermined minimum usage, provide a removal option for at least partially removing the function from the control device for the function;
establish a communication connection between a communication interface of the motor vehicle and a communication interface of an external computing device;
transmit request data describing an activated removal option via the communication connection to the external computing device;
receive, by the motor vehicle, a second software generated based on the transmitted request data;
in response to activating the removal option, provide the second software for the control device having a respective removed function in a non-executable state; and
operate the control device using the second software.