At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Alex Varshavsky

Kaustubh Joshi

Brian Scott Amento

Kermit Hal Purdy

Matti A Hiltunen

Thomas M Smith

David Kormann

Rajesh Krishna Panta

Svetlana Yarosh

Horacio Andres Lagar-Cavilla

A method and computer-readable storage device and apparatus for controlling a roadway resource are disclosed. For example, the method receives from a device associated with a vehicle a request to reach a target destination by a target arrival time and a maximum payment amount to reach the target destination by the target arrival time. The method next determining a route to the target destination and determines a roadway resource along the route that is controllable. The method then sends an instruction to the device associated with the vehicle, where the instruction indicates to navigate the vehicle along the route and controls the roadway resource to enable the vehicle to reach the target destination by the target arrival time.

Method and apparatus for controlling a roadway source

The disclosed subject matter relates to an architecture that can opportunistically leverage existing periods of inactivity or low activity for sending data at virtually no marginal cost. In particular, the architecture can receive data that is to be transmitted over a communications network. The data can be examined to determine whether or not the data is delay-tolerant. If so, then such data can be stored to a staging queue. The data can then be transmitted at a later time, particularly during a high-energy state facilitated by a different data transaction, but for which there are inactive or low-activity times.

Transmitting delay-tolerant data with other network traffic

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Alex Varshavsky