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US 12,640,039 B2Granted
Enhanced onboard equipment
AssigneeDERQ Inc.
InventorsNikhil Manohar, Amer Abufadel, Georges Aoude
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Abstract
Among other things, an equipment for use on board a first ground transportation entity has (a) a receiver for information generated by a sensor of the environment of the first ground transportation entity, (b) a processor, and (c) a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to generate and send safety message information to a second ground transportation entity based on the information generated by the sensor.
Claims20
A method, comprising
- collecting motion data using sensors in a first capable ground transportation entity that is capable of sending safety messages to other ground transportation entities, wherein the motion data characterizes motion of a plurality of ground transportation entities in a vicinity of the first capable ground transportation entity;
- sending, from the first capable ground transportation entity to a second capable ground transportation entity that is capable of sending safety messages to other ground transportation entities, a first safety message of a first type, the first safety message comprising information about motion of the first capable ground transportation entity,
- wherein the first safety message has a message structure defined by a regulatory regime;
- detecting a presence of a non-capable ground transportation entity that is not capable of sending safety messages to other ground transportation entities;
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- based on detecting the presence of the non-capable ground transportation entity, sending, from the first capable ground transportation entity to the second capable ground transportation entity, a second safety message of a second type that comprises information about motion of the non-capable ground transportation entity,
- wherein the second safety message is sent on behalf of the non-capable ground transportation entity,
- wherein the information about the motion of the non-capable ground transportation entity is based on the motion data collected by the sensors,
- wherein the second safety message of the second type has the message structure of the first safety message of the first type, and
- wherein the message structure enables the second capable ground transportation entity to process safety messages of the second type as if the safety messages of the second type were of the first type.
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A system comprising:
- sensors in a first capable ground transportation entity that is capable of sending safety messages to other ground transportation entities;
- and
- a computing system in the first capable ground transportation entity, wherein the computing system is configured to:
- collect motion data using the sensors, wherein the motion data characterizes motion of a plurality of ground transportation entities in a vicinity of the first capable ground transportation entity;
- send, from the first capable ground transportation entity to a second capable ground transportation entity that is capable of sending safety messages to other ground transportation entities, a first safety message of a first type, the first safety message comprising information about motion of the first capable ground transportation entity,
- wherein the first safety message has a message structure defined by a regulatory regime;
- detect a presence of a non-capable ground transportation entity that is not capable of sending safety messages to other ground transportation entities;
- and
- based on detecting the presence of the non-capable ground transportation entity, send, from the first capable ground transportation entity to the second capable ground transportation entity, a second safety message of a second type that comprises information about motion of the non-capable ground transportation entity,
- wherein the second safety message is sent on behalf of the non-capable ground transportation entity,
- wherein the information about the motion of the non-capable ground transportation entity is based on the motion data collected by the sensors,
- wherein the second safety message of the second type has the message structure of the first safety message of the first type, and
- wherein the message structure enables the second capable ground transportation entity to process safety messages of the second type as if the safety messages of the second type were of the first type.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.