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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Robert Edgar Barton, Richmond, CA;
John George Apostolopoulos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Martin Graybeal, Califon, NJ (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a technique for information sharing among dynamically grouped vehicles is provided that illustratively comprises making, by a first vehicle of a first plurality of vehicles, a determination that the first plurality of vehicles is a convoy of vehicles traveling as a group; sending, by the first vehicle, a group identifier that is indicative of the convoy and of each of the plurality of vehicles to an access point in communication with the first vehicle; authenticating, by the first vehicle, with the access point using the group identifier; and exchanging, by the first vehicle, first vehicular data with the access point using a first connection of a plurality of connections assigned to the group identifier.