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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2018
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Todd D. Mattingly, Bentonville, AR (US);
Donald R. High, Noel, MO (US);
Bruce W. Wilkinson, Rogers, AR (US);
Joseph Jurich, Jr., Molino, FL (US);
Brian G. McHale, Chadderton Oldham, GB;
Robert L. Cantrell, Herndon, VA (US);
John J. O'Brien, Farmington, AR (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for autonomous vehicles task management and organization. A system for organizing autonomous product delivery vehicles comprises a locomotion system of a first autonomous vehicle, a communication device, a memory device, and a control circuit. The control circuit being configured to retrieve one or more vehicle tasks assigned to the first autonomous vehicle from a hash chain database, decrypt the task parameters with a private key of the first autonomous vehicle stored on the memory device, identify a second autonomous vehicle as a transferee of the one or more vehicle tasks based on transfer rules in the task parameters, and update the hash chain database with a new block comprising a hash of preceding data in the hash chain database and the task parameters of the one or more vehicle tasks encrypted with a public key of the second autonomous vehicle.