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US 10,757,602 B2Granted
Connection history-based retry throttling
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJixin Zhang, Shu-Lin Chen
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Abstract
A telematics controller is programmed to identify a location responsive to detecting a failed data call from a vehicle, and if the location is within a geographic boundary of a failure zone within a cellular tower region and a cause of the failure matches a recorded cause for the failure zone, initiate data throttling until the vehicle moved outside of the geographic boundary.
Claims27
A vehicle comprising:
- a telematics controller programmed to
- create a failure zone within a cellular tower region responsive to a failure probability for locations within a geographic boundary of the failure zone exceeding a threshold maximum number of failures,
- identify a location responsive to detecting a failed data call from the vehicle, and
- if the location is within the geographic boundary of the failure zone within a cellular tower region and a cause of the failure matches a recorded cause for the failure zone, initiate data throttling until the vehicle moves outside of the geographic boundary.
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A method comprising:
- creating a failure zone within a cellular tower region responsive to a failure probability for locations within a geographic boundary of the failure zone exceeding a threshold maximum number of failures;
- initiating data throttling for data calls from a vehicle responsive to a failure of a data call from the vehicle occurring within the geographic boundary of the failure zone within the cellular tower region and for a failure cause consistent with a clause specified by the failure zone;
- and
- terminating the data throttling responsive to the vehicle exiting the geographic boundary.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor of a telematics controller of a vehicle, cause the controller to:
- create a failure zone within a cellular tower region responsive to a failure probability for locations within a geographic boundary of the failure zone exceeding a threshold maximum number of failures;
- initiate data throttling for data calls from a vehicle responsive to a failure of a data call from the vehicle occurring within the geographic boundary of the failure zone within the cellular tower region and for a failure cause consistent with a clause specified by the failure zone;
- and
- terminate the data throttling responsive to the vehicle exiting the geographic boundary.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.