Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Jerry John

Yun Ho Lee

Tao Wu

A first vehicle includes a wireless transceiver; and a processor programmed to responsive to encountering a second vehicle, establish a wireless connection to the second vehicle via the wireless transceiver and obtain a vehicle identification of the second vehicle, identify a software update for a controller of the second vehicle using the vehicle identification, wherein the software update is incompatible with the vehicle, responsive to connecting to a predefined wireless network, download the software update into a local storage, and responsive to reencountering the second vehicle, reconnect to the second vehicle via the wireless transceiver and transmit the software update to the second vehicle.

Surrogate vehicle OTA update through V2X

A geographical area of a mobile network is directed to perform an OTA test content drop of a predefined time, data, size, and duration. Statistical data is identified with respect to vehicle density in the geographical area, the statistical data being computed from reception reports received from vehicles responsive to the OTA test content drop. Responsive to at least a predefined minimum target of vehicles being located in the geographical area, and based on the statistical data, one or more time slots for an OTA delivery in the geographic area suitable for broadcast delivery are determined. The OTA update is delivered over broadcast instead of unicast during the one or more time slots.

Vehicle density over the air update scheduling

The disclosure pertains to using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio communications to execute a pedestrian-vehicle rendezvous. In one example operation, a personal device such as a smartphone, is used to identify a location of a vehicle with a first level of accuracy. For example, the smartphone may be used by a pedestrian to obtain GPS location coordinates of a ride-hail vehicle summoned by the pedestrian. The vehicle may be located relatively far from the pedestrian. The smartphone may be configured to automatically establish a UWB radio link with a UWB transponder in the vehicle and/or a smartphone carried by a driver of the ride-hail vehicle, when the vehicle is within range to establish UWB communications. The UWB radio link may be used to execute one or more of various procedures to locate the vehicle with a second level of accuracy that is higher than the first level of accuracy.

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