Mobile telemetry system

• US 10,460,533 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2017
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Forthoffer, Daniel William, Throop, Medville Jay, Tillman, Brian David
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu, Yonel
• Application Number:
  US15/663,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20170330393A1
• Time in Patent Office: 823 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/00 Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

An automotive vehicle may include a processor configured to buffer records of vehicle information created at a scheduled acquisition rate, and to buffer event files of vehicle information created upon the occurrence of predetermined triggering events. The processor may be further configured to cause the buffered records to be wirelessly transmitted on a last-in first-out basis if a signal strength in a vicinity of the vehicle is greater than a first predetermined threshold, and to cause the buffered files to be wirelessly transmitted if the signal strength is greater than a second predetermined threshold.

Claims

1. A mobile telemetry system comprising:

a vehicle including a processor configured to

buffer vehicle information collected at a scheduled rate,

cause the buffered information to be wirelessly transmitted responsive to a wireless signal strength in a vicinity of the vehicle being greater than a first predetermined threshold, and

archive the buffered information responsive to the signal strength being less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to cause the archived information to be wirelessly transmitted responsive to the signal strength being greater than a second predetermined threshold.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to archive the buffered information as files, each file having a size, and to cause the archived files to be wirelessly transmitted based on the sizes.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to archive the buffered information as files each having a size and wherein the second predetermined threshold depends on the sizes.

5. A mobile telemetry system comprising:

a vehicle including a processor configured to

buffer files of vehicle information created upon occurrence of predetermined triggering events,

cause the buffered files to be wirelessly transmitted responsive to a wireless signal strength in a vicinity of the vehicle being greater than a first predetermined threshold, and

archive the buffered files responsive to the signal strength being less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the processor is further configured to cause the archived files to be wirelessly transmitted responsive to the signal strength being greater than a second predetermined threshold.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the buffered files has a size and wherein the processor is further configured to cause the buffered files to be wirelessly transmitted based on the sizes.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the buffered files has a size and wherein the first predetermined threshold depends on the sizes.