# US 11,029,163 B2 · Method and apparatus for identifying and recommending vehicle locations to facilitate data transfer

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- Number: US 11,029,163 B2
- Document ID: US11029163B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/160,638
- Filed: 2018-10-15
- Published: 2020-04-16
- Granted: 2021-06-08
- Earliest claimed: 2018-10-15
- Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicants: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Inventors: Oliver Lei; Allen R. Murray
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11029163B2

## CPC

- G01C 21/3407: {specially adapted for specific applications}
- G01C 21/3682: {output of POI information on a road map (G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence)}
- G01C 21/3685: {the POI's being parking facilities}
- G06F 8/65: Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57)
- G08G 1/14: indicating individual free spaces in parking areas
- G08G 1/143: {inside the vehicles}
- G08G 1/144: {on portable or mobile units, e.g. personal digital assistant [PDA]}
- G08G 1/148: {Management of a network of parking areas}
- H04W 4/021: Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
- H04W 4/023: {using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds}
- H04W 4/40: for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
- H04W 4/44: for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
- G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93})
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

A system includes a processor configured to determine that a high-speed data transfer is desired for a vehicle. The processor is also configured to identify parking, within a predefined distance from a destination location, which overlaps with identified areas of high-speed coverage meeting a predefined speed and display visual indicators of the identified parking, when a vehicle is within a predefined distance from the identified parking.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system comprising:
a processor configured to:
determine that a data transfer is requested for a vehicle and is designated for execution over a network having at least a predefined speed;
identify parking that is within a first predefined distance from a destination location and that overlaps with identified areas of network coverage meeting a or exceeding the predefined speed; and
display visual indicators of the identified parking, when the vehicle is within a second predefined distance from the identified parking.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the determination that the data transfer is designated for execution over a network having at least a predefined speed is based on a user indication.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the determination that the data transfer is designated for execution over a network having at least a predefined speed is based on information included in a pending request.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The system of claim 3, wherein the information included in the pending request includes a requested transfer-speed.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The system of claim 3, wherein the information included in the pending request includes a requested data volume meeting a predesignated threshold for high-speed transfer.

### Claim 6 (depends on 3)

The system of claim 3, wherein the information included in the pending request includes a criticality indicator meeting a predesignated threshold for high-speed transfer.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein identifying parking further includes identifying parking which is also determined to be unoccupied parking.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the displaying visual indicators includes displaying parking availability.