Vehicle-to-vehicle communication apparatus of vehicle and method for controlling the same
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsSangseok LEE, Youngwoo PARK, Hyewon YOU
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Abstract
A vehicle-to-vehicle communication apparatus for a vehicle includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a server and adjacent vehicles; and a controller configured to store a position of the vehicle, to select one or more vehicles, among the adjacent vehicles, wherein the one or more vehicles are capable of performing local communication with the vehicle within a reference distance from the stored position, to receive download quota from a first host vehicle among the selected one or more vehicles, and to obtain data from the server as much as the received quota.
Claims19
A vehicle-to-vehicle communication apparatus for a vehicle comprising:
- a communicator configured to communicate with a server and adjacent vehicles;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- store a position of the vehicle;
- select one or more vehicles, among the adjacent vehicles, wherein the one or more vehicles are capable of performing local communication with the vehicle within a reference distance from the stored position;
- receive download quota from a first host vehicle selected from the one or more vehicles;
- and
- obtain data from the server as much as the received quota.
A method for controlling vehicle-to-vehicle communication of vehicle comprising steps of:
- storing, by a controller, a position of the vehicle;
- communicating, by a communicator, with adjacent vehicles capable of performing a local communication within a reference distance from the stored position;
- selecting, by the controller, one or more vehicles among the adjacent vehicles capable of performing the local communication;
- receiving, by the controller, download quota from a first host vehicle selected from the one or more vehicles;
- and
- obtaining, by the controller, data from a server as much as the received download quota.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.