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System and method for providing inter-vehicle communications amongst autonomous vehicles

  • US 9,947,145 B2
  • Filed: 06/01/2016
  • Issued: 04/17/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for inter-vehicle communications amongst autonomous vehicles, the method comprising:

  • transmitting a vehicle identifier (ID) and vehicle information of a first autonomous vehicle in transit to a cloud server over a network, wherein the cloud server is communicatively coupled to a plurality of autonomous vehicles;

    receiving a list of one or more vehicle identifiers (IDs) from the cloud server, the vehicle IDs identifying one or more autonomous vehicles are within a predetermined geographic proximity of the first autonomous vehicle, wherein the one or more autonomous vehicles are identified by the cloud server using a nearest neighbor search algorithm; and

    directly communicating with a second autonomous vehicle in transit that is selected from the list of one or more autonomous vehicles via a wireless local area network to exchange an operational status of the first autonomous vehicle with the second autonomous vehicle.

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