Vlad Slyusar

Date Issued: January 7, 2025

Summary: Managing vehicle application usage of computing resources is provided. A request for computing resources of a communications network is received from a vehicle application installed to a vehicle. An access point name (APN) is assigned to the vehicle application based on an application identifier corresponding to the vehicle application by accessing stored APN information including a mapping of application identifiers to corresponding APNs. The computing resources are accessed by the vehicle application connecting to the communications network using the APN.

Date Issued: December 31, 2024

Summary: A system includes a plurality of vehicles and at least one first processor in a first vehicle and at least one second processor in each other of the plurality of vehicles. The first vehicle wirelessly receives remote driving commands, from a remote computing system, instructing control of the first vehicle and executes the remote driving commands to control the first vehicle in accordance with the remote driving commands. The first vehicle wirelessly broadcasts the remote driving commands, including a location of the first vehicle where a given of the driving commands was executed. The second vehicle wirelessly receives the broadcast remote driving commands, stores the received remote driving commands in sequence, and executes the given of the driving commands when a location of the second vehicle corresponds to the location of the first vehicle where the given of the driving commands was executed.

Date: December 12, 2024

Summary: Systems and methods for implementing edge computing assisted vehicle alerts. A multi-access edge computing (MEC) server may be configured to obtain a plurality of messages from one or more vehicles, determine formation of a traffic queue based on the plurality of messages, determine a plurality of zone-based speed limits, determine when a vehicle approaching the traffic queue may be traveling faster than desired based on its location relative to an applicable zone-based speed limit, and generate one or more alerts.

Date: October 3, 2024

Summary: An ego user equipment (UE) receives absolute position and relative distance information for m other UEs at a timestamp and a fingerprint location based on signal strength information between the UE and n different femtocells. The ego UE determines, using round trip time between the ego UE and the other UEs, first distances of the ego UE from each of the other UEs. The ego UE determines, using the absolute position of the ego UE via fingerprinting information and absolute position of other UEs received through device-to-device (D2D) communication, second distances of the ego UE to each of the other UEs. The ego UE utilizes the fingerprint location as a current location of the UE responsive to a predefined threshold subset of discrepancies between the first distances and the second distances being within a predefined distance tolerance threshold.

Date Issued: July 16, 2024

Summary: An autonomous vehicle may determine that it has an amount of power remaining projected to be needed to reach a recharging point by autonomously traveling with predefined systems disabled. The vehicle may disable the predefined systems and travel towards the recharging point. Subsequent to the disabling, the autonomous vehicle may determine that it no longer has the amount of power remaining projected to be needed to reach the recharging point. The vehicle may then communicate with a server and request assistance. The vehicle may then travel to an instructed rendezvous point with a second autonomous vehicle, the rendezvous received from the server. The two vehicles may then communicate to allow the first vehicle to leverage a capability of the second autonomous vehicle, responsive to the first and second autonomous vehicles being within communication range, allowing the first vehicle to reach the recharging point via the leveraging.

Date Issued: May 21, 2024

Summary: Monitoring of a vehicle is provided. A plurality of video feeds captured from cameras of the vehicle are received, over a network from a vehicle, each of the plurality of video feeds including a plurality frames, each of the frames of each of the video feeds being assigned a sequence number that increases for each successive frame. The sequence numbers are analyzed to identify missing frames, delayed frames, or stale frames. The plurality of video feeds is displayed, to one or more monitors, the sequence numbers corresponding to the displayed frames, and for each of the plurality of video feeds, indications of whether any missed frames, delayed frames, or stale frames were identified.

Date Issued: January 23, 2024

Summary: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for providing targeted content to users. In an example method, audio data can be received from a device. Sensor data associated with the device may also be received, and the sensor data may include location data. Upon receiving the audio data, an intent associated with the audio data can be determined. At least one of a product, service, or entity may be determined based on the intent. Content may then be determined based on the sensor data and at least one of the product, service, or entity. The content may be associated with a vehicle. An indication of the content can then be sent to the device.

Date: November 16, 2023

Summary: Managing vehicle application usage of computing resources is provided. A request for computing resources of a communications network is received from a vehicle application installed to a vehicle. An access point name (APN) is assigned to the vehicle application based on an application identifier corresponding to the vehicle application by accessing stored APN information including a mapping of application identifiers to corresponding APNs. The computing resources are accessed by the vehicle application connecting to the communications network using the APN.

Date Issued: November 7, 2023

Summary: Drone-based vehicle connectivity systems and methods are disclosed herein. A method can include determining a loss of network connectivity by any of a vehicle and/or a drone associated with the vehicle, receiving an emergency message from the vehicle, launching the drone to navigate to a location where network connectivity exists, and transmitting the emergency message to a service provider when a connection to a network is established.

Date Issued: September 5, 2023

Summary: A vehicle receives a first portion of content via ATSC broadcast, generates a random nonce, responsive to receiving the content, and sends the nonce and a request for content verification to a remote server. The vehicle receives a message from the remote server indicating whether the first portion of content is likely valid, the message including a second portion of content and a hash value when the content is likely valid. The vehicle then calculates a second hash value, using the random nonce and the first portion of content. The vehicle compares the second hash value to the first hash value, and responsive to the second hash value matching the first hash value, combines the second portion of content and the first portion of content to create combined content. The vehicle then uses a security strategy to convert the combined content into utilizable content, and utilizes the content.

Date: July 27, 2023

Summary: Location-aware content recommendations.

Date: June 22, 2023

Summary: Broadcasts remote-driving commands.

Date: May 18, 2023

Summary: Detects dropped/stale frames.

Date: April 13, 2023

Summary: AVs share capabilities for recharging.

Date Issued: January 10, 2023

Summary: A system includes a stationary infrastructure element including a camera mounted to the infrastructure element and an infrastructure server. The infrastructure server includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a request from a movable vehicle, the request identifying a data anomaly including at least one of (1) a sensor of the vehicle collecting data below a confidence threshold or (2) a geographic location outside a geographic database of the vehicle, to actuate the camera to collect image data of one of the vehicle or the geographic location, to identify geo-coordinates of the vehicle or the geographic location based on identified pixels in the image data including the vehicle or the geographic location, and to provide the geo-coordinates to the vehicle to address the data anomaly.

Date: November 24, 2022

Summary: Launches drones for emergency communications.

Date: October 6, 2022

Summary: Random-nonce-based broadcast verification.

Date: July 19, 2022

Summary: A point-to-multipoint retransmit of the parking availability data is performed with a predefined update period. A quantity of unicast requests for parking availability is received via one or more cellular towers. If the quantity of unicast requests received within the predefined update period exceeds a ratio of point-to-multipoint bandwidth to unicast messaging bandwidth of the one or more cellular towers, a transition is made to use of the point-to-multipoint messaging for sending the parking availability data via the one or more cellular towers; and otherwise, a transition is made to use of the unicast messaging for sending the parking availability data via the one or more cellular towers.

Date: June 9, 2022

Summary: A system determines at least one driving style, reflecting driving behavior for a driver of a vehicle and based on inputs from a plurality of vehicle systems. The system receives a plurality of wireless signals from elements within a wireless communication range, each signal indicating the behavior of one or more drivers of other vehicles within a predefined distance of the vehicle. Further, the system determines, based on the wireless signals, whether one or more drivers are exhibiting behavior comparable to the driver of the vehicle based on predefined comparison thresholds and, responsive to determining that one or more drivers are exhibiting comparable behavior, provides guidance as to how to maneuver the vehicle to reach the vehicles driven by the one or more drivers exhibiting comparable behavior.

Date Issued: December 28, 2021

Summary: A computing device includes a camera configured to capture images of an area of a road, the area defining a geofence; and a processor, configured to responsive to detecting a traffic density within the geofence exceeding a predefined threshold, wirelessly broadcast a directional message within the geofence to request vehicles located within the geofence to temporarily disable individual messaging services having low priorities identified in the directional message, analyze vehicle traffic using images captured by the camera to detect a predefined traffic situation, responsive to detecting the predefined traffic situation initiated by one of the vehicles, generate a safety message reflecting the traffic situation, and broadcast the safety message to vehicles within the geofence.

Date: December 23, 2021

Summary: Infrastructure cameras assist AV geopositioning.

Date: September 2, 2021

Summary: Instructs low-priority services to pause.

Date Issued: January 21, 2020

Summary: Systems and methods for managing communications equipment of a vehicle. The vehicle includes a first modem and a second modem coupled to the first modem. Responsive to the second modem wireless receiving first data for the first modem when the vehicle is in an inactive state, the first modem is in an off state, and the second modem is in a low power state, the vehicle is configured to wake the first modem from the off state, and process the first data via the first modem.

Date Issued: May 28, 2019

Summary: Method and apparatus are disclosed for communicatively coupling mobile devices to wireless local area networks of vehicles. An example vehicle includes a communication module for a wireless local area network including an internal antenna and an external antenna. The example vehicle also includes an antenna adjuster to communicatively couple, in response to determining a mobile device is inside a vehicle cabin, the internal antenna to the mobile device and to communicatively couple, in response to determining the mobile device is outside of the vehicle cabin, the external antenna to the mobile device.

Date: January 3, 2019

Summary: Wakes primary modem from low-power state.

Date: July 26, 2018

Summary: Optimizes connectivity via internal/external antennas.

Date Issued: March 15, 2004

Summary: A rodent trap contains a hollow container with an open inlet and a cut in the bottom from the side of the rear wall, whereon a cross-beam, which is rotary around the horizontal axis, is placed, the one end of which lies on the bottom from the side of the inlet. At the end of the cross-beam from the side of the entry a weight is placed and the weight centre of the cross-beam is shifted from rotation axis thereof to the rear wall, which is made in such a manner as to allow turning outside and has a bait inside.