Managing communications between connected vehicles via a cellular network
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorAhmad Arash Obaidi
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described herein for managing communications for a connected vehicle, such as between the connected vehicle and other connected vehicle and/or between the connected vehicle and infrastructure entities, such as providers of services to the connected vehicle. For example, a communication network, such as a network provided by a network carrier, may include various cloud engines or other network-based servers that manage, coordinate, and/or provision communications between the connected vehicle and other parties, such as vehicles, road devices, buildings, and other infrastructure entities.
Claims20
A method for managing communications between a vehicle and other vehicles associated with the vehicle, the method comprising:
- receiving information from the vehicle that identifies an occurrence of an event at the vehicle,
- wherein the information is received by a cloud-based network server associated with a network carrier providing a communications network to the vehicle and other vehicles located within a geographical area, and
- wherein the information is not received via a direct vehicle-to-vehicle wireless connection;
- identifying, at the cloud-based network server, a subset of the other vehicles located within the geographic area predicted to be affected by the occurrence of the event at the vehicle;
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- performing, at the cloud-based network server, an action associated with the identified subset of the other vehicles in response to the occurrence of the event at the vehicle,
- wherein the performed action includes transmitting information indicative of one or more parameters of the occurrence of the event to the identified subset of the other vehicles.
A system that communicates with a connected vehicle, wherein the connected vehicle includes a communication device configured to facilitate exchanges of information between the connected vehicle and a cloud-based network server associated with a network carrier that contains the system and provides a communications network to the vehicle, the system comprising:
- a vehicle event module that receives information from the communication device of the vehicle,
- wherein the vehicle event module identifies an occurrence of an abnormal event at the vehicle based on the information received from the communication device;
- a context module that identifies a subset of other vehicles, located within a geographic area that includes the vehicle, which are predicted to be affected by the occurrence of the abnormal event at the vehicle;
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- an action module that performs an action associated with the identified subset of the other vehicles in response to the occurrence of the abnormal event at the vehicle.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by a network server, cause the network server to perform a method of providing updated traffic information to vehicles travelling on a common route to a destination, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the network server, a signal from a certain vehicle traveling on the common route to the destination that an abnormal event has occurred at the certain vehicle;
- identifying other vehicles travelling on the common route;
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- selecting at least one vehicle of the identified other vehicles travelling on the common route predicted to be affected by the abnormal event at the certain vehicle;
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- sending to the selected at least one vehicle, information that identifies a location of the certain vehicle and a status of the certain vehicle based on the abnormal event at the certain vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.