Wireless exchange between vehicle-borne communications systems
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorMichael John Fallenstein
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for communicating information between vehicles and/or other systems, including the Internet. Such information may include vehicle operations information, emergency information, email and any other form of information. To facilitate communications each vehicle is equipped with an onboard communications system. In one embodiment, the onboard communications systems are configured to transmit/receive tokens to other systems within a predefined range (as determined by the transmission equipment) without regard for whether the information tokens are addressed to a particular recipient.
Claims29
A method of communicating information between vehicles, comprising:
- receiving, at a vehicle-borne receiver, a first information token from a proximately located vehicle, wherein the first information token contains at least data content;
- determining whether the first information token is private or public;
- if the first information token is private, transmitting the first information token, from a vehicle-borne transmitter, without reading the data content of the first information token;
- and
- if the first information token is public, reading the data content of the first information token.
A method of communicating information between vehicles, comprising:
- providing a vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle-borne short-range receiver;
- and
- a vehicle-borne short-range transmitter;
- receiving, at the vehicle-borne short-range receiver, information tokens from a token transmitter within a predefined range without regard for an identity of the token transmitter and without regard for whether the received information tokens are addressed to a particular recipient;
- and
- transmitting, from the vehicle-borne short-range transmitter, at least some of the information tokens to any token receiver within a predefined range without regard for whether the information tokens are addressed to a particular destination.
A vehicle-borne system, comprising:
- a short-range transmitter;
- a short-range receiver;
- and
- an onboard computer system communicably connected to the short-range transmitter and the short-range receiver and which, when executing a token processing program, is configured to perform an operation comprising:
- (a) receiving, at the short-range receiver, information tokens from a token transmitter within a predefined range without regard for an identity of the token transmitter and without regard for whether the received information tokens are addressed to a particular recipient;
- and
- (b) transmitting, from the short-range transmitter, at least some of the information tokens to any token receiver within a predefined range without regard for whether the information tokens are addressed to a particular destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.