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US 12,289,180 B2Granted
Vehicle DCM routing management
AssigneesToyota Motor North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsStephen Paul McFarland, Jr., Mark R. Klausner
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Abstract
An example operation includes one or more of determining a data communication module (DCM) in a vehicle is unable to send a message, routing the message from the DCM to a device detachably connected to the vehicle, and sending, by the device detachably connected to the vehicle, the routed message to a device external to the vehicle.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- providing a message from a processor of a vehicle to a data communication module (DCM) in the vehicle to send to an external system;
- determining the DCM is unable to send the message when a response is not received from the DCM within a predetermined period of time;
- measuring a signal strength of at least one device detachably connected to the vehicle based on a radio frequency signal meter of the vehicle;
- selecting a device detachably connected to the vehicle from the at least one device detachably connected to the vehicle based on the measured signal strength;
- routing the message from the processor to the device detachably connected to the vehicle with a destination of the external system in a field of the message;
- and
- sending, by the device detachably connected to the vehicle, the routed message to the external system.
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A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, coupled to the processor, comprising instructions that when executed by the processor are configured to:
- provide a message from a processor of a vehicle to a data communication module (DCM) in the vehicle to send to an external system;
- determine the DCM is unable to send the message when a response is not received from the DCM within a predetermined period of time;
- measure a signal strength of at least one device detachably connected to the vehicle based on a radio frequency signal meter of the vehicle;
- select a device detachably connected to the vehicle from the at least one device detachably connected to the vehicle based on the measured signal strength;
- route the message to processor to the device detachably connected to the vehicle with a destination of the external system in a field of the message;
- and
- send, by the device detachably connected to the vehicle, the routed message to a device external to the vehicle.
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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions, that when read by a processor, cause the processor to perform:
- providing a message from a processor of a vehicle to a data communication module (DCM) in the vehicle to send to an external system;
- determining the DCM is unable to send the message when a response is not received from the DCM within a predetermined period of time;
- measuring a signal strength of at least one device detachably connected to the vehicle based on a radio frequency signal meter of the vehicle;
- selecting a device detachably connected to the vehicle from the at least one device detachably connected to the vehicle based on the measured signal strength;
- routing the message from the processor to the device detachably connected to the vehicle with a destination of the external system in a field of the message;
- and
- sending, by the device detachably connected to the vehicle, the routed message to the external system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.