Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

Shingo Sugimoto

Robert D Slater

Joshua C Batie

Felipe G Salles

Neil Dutta

Shintaro Iwaasa

Joshua V Marasigan

Andrew L Wells

Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani

Ryan T Oehler

Walter Accessor

Osamu Kawakami

Mathew D Gardner

Systems and methods disclosed herein optimize radio metrics between nodes within a mesh network by waking up nodes not actively connected to a mesh network. A mesh network system includes a computing device configured to determine that a radio metric between a first node and a second node in a mesh network is above a predetermined threshold, identify a third node operating in sleep mode, when the radio metric is above the predetermined threshold, and cause the third node to wake and connect to the mesh network, the third node is configured to relay communication between the first node and the second node.

Systems and methods for optimizing a radio metric within a mesh network by waking up nodes

A mesh network system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit selects determines a current motion state of a vehicle of a mesh network. The electronic control unit may calculates radio metric scores for network interfaces. The radio metric scores are weighted based on the current motion. The electronic control unit selects a desired network interface for communications between the vehicles based on the radio metric scores.

Systems and methods for selecting a network interface based on a motion state of a vehicle

An example operation may include one or more of requesting, by a processor of a device, permissions to provide access to a transport to a diagnostic location from a network of a plurality of diagnostic locations, in response to receiving the permissions from the network of the plurality of the diagnostic locations, authenticating the diagnostic location, by the device, providing a pre-stored one-time access key to the transport to the diagnostic location, and receiving, by the device, diagnostics from the diagnostic location.

Remote access of transports

A method, a system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided. The method includes identifying a trend for an autonomous vehicle based on autonomous vehicle profiles associated with one or more vehicles within a network, identifying optimal driving conditions for the autonomous vehicle based on the trend; and controlling one or more subsystems of the autonomous vehicle based on the identified optimal driving conditions.

System and method for controlling an autonomous vehicle

A distributed computing network includes one or more vehicles, each vehicle configured to act as a node in the distributed computing network, and a remote server including a processor and a memory module storing one or more non-transient processor-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the remote server to establish a data connection with the one or more vehicles, predict a pattern-of-use of the one or more vehicles, determine a predicted current use of the one or more vehicles, and allocate a computational task to the one or more vehicles based on the predicted pattern-of-use and the predicted current use.

Using predictive analytics to determine expected use patterns of vehicles to recapture under-utilized computational resources of vehicles

A mesh network system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate a plurality of radio metric scores for a plurality of network interfaces for a first vehicle of a plurality of vehicles of a mesh network as a function of radio metrics in a current motion state of the first vehicle. The radio metrics indicate performance of the plurality of network interfaces in the current motion state of the first vehicle. The electronic control unit is further configured to select a desired network interface from the plurality of network interfaces comprising a desired radio metric score indicative of a desired performance in the current motion state.

System and method for applying routing protocol and selecting a network interface in a mesh network

Apparatus, systems, and methods for methods for monitoring the health status of a vehicle occupant by detecting when a triggering physiological condition is met, confirming the triggering physiological condition is real by identifying a separate vehicle triggering event, and automatically responding to minimize the potential impact of the triggering event.

Vehicle occupant health monitor system and method

A mesh network system includes an electronic control unit The electronic control unit is configured to determine a first motion state of a first vehicle of a plurality of vehicles of a mesh network. The electronic control unit is further configured to determine a second motion state of a second vehicle of the plurality of vehicles. The electronic control unit is further configured to select a dynamic routing protocol or a static routing protocol as a desired routing protocol based on the first motion state and the second motion state.

Systems and methods for selecting a routing protocol

Vehicles, systems and methods for establishing a mesh network among a plurality of vehicles are described herein. An electronic control unit configured to determine a current position and a future position of a vehicle, determine a current position and a future position of another vehicle, generate a mesh network including the vehicle and the another vehicle based on: (i) a comparison of the current position of the vehicle and the current position of the another vehicle; and (ii) a comparison of the future position of the vehicle and the future position of the another vehicle.

Datamesh network management, routing management for moving nodes and data distribution through vehicle mesh network

Systems and methods described herein relate to remotely activating a vehicle. One embodiment receives transaction information regarding an electronic payment; associates the transaction information with a vehicle; determines that the vehicle is within a predetermined distance from a business where the electronic payment was transacted; and transmits, to the vehicle, a remote activation command that activates one or more subsystems of the vehicle.

Systems and methods for remotely activating a vehicle

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a processor of a transport, to a network comprised of a plurality of transports, receiving, by the processor of the transport, an access key request to the transport from a device, broadcasting, by the processor of the transport, the request to the network, collecting, by the processor of the transport, authorizations from a subset of the plurality of the transports, and sending a one-time access key to the device, if the authorizations are received from a minimal required number of the transports.

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Frisco, TX, United States of America

Shingo Sugimoto