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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Eric Eaton, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for assigning parking spots to autonomous vehicles based on data transfer throughput and other considerations. In one exemplary method, a server computer receives from a first autonomous vehicle, information regarding a size of a first dataset available for uploading from the first autonomous vehicle into the server computer. The server computer may further receive from a second autonomous vehicle, information regarding a size of a second dataset that the second autonomous vehicle has available for uploading into the server computer. The server computer may then assign parking spots to the two autonomous vehicles based on evaluating various factors such as the size of one or both datasets, characteristics of wireless links for carrying out data transfer in the parking area, characteristics of various access points in the parking area, and priorities associated with the data transfer.