In the last decade, electronics and software have replaced many mechanical components in vehicles at an unprecedented rate. New emerging technologies have found their way into the vehicular domain,like for instance, ADAS systems. This change brings some particular challenges with it in terms of functionalities, safety and security. Many vehicle distributed functions require hard real-time and secure communication. Therefore, the electrical and electronic (E/E architectures) architectures are in a continuously adapting trend to meet the new standards.The adaptation from a distributed to a domain-centralized architectureis already present. It is crucial to facilitate reuse of system architectural solutions in order to make system development more efficient. Therefore, we propose the use of communication architectural patterns. We present a method to map communication patterns on a certain layer ofabstraction. The method has been evaluated through several industrialuse cases. Furthermore, this work sets precedence for future research and development, as well as future applications of the method.