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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 03, 2018
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventor:

Drew Cunningham, Superior Township, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/16 (2006.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); B60W 40/06 (2012.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/163 (2013.01); B60W 30/0953 (2013.01); B60W 40/06 (2013.01); G08G 1/0104 (2013.01); G08G 1/096791 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 88/04 (2013.01); B60W 2756/10 (2020.02);
Abstract

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication through short range communication techniques can be extended by sending messages from a host vehicle to a target vehicle using an intermediate vehicle. The host vehicle identifies road conditions which may be of interest to a target vehicle. An intermediate vehicle relays the message detailing the identified road conditions from the host vehicle to the target vehicle. The message can be rebroadcast by the intermediate vehicle to target vehicles in its communication range, or it can generate a new message to transmit the information to target vehicles.


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