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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Inventors:
Jan Buchholz, Ergolding, DE;
Sebastian Engel, Ingolstadt, DE;
Assignee:
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/096783 (2013.01); G08G 1/096791 (2013.01); G08G 1/163 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0215 (2013.01); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02);
Abstract
A method for operating a communication network comprising a plurality of motor vehicles, wherein the motor vehicles each have a sensor device having at least one environmental sensor, wherein at least one motor vehicle, when a malfunction of an environmental sensor is found by its sensor device, transmits the status data describing the malfunction and including position data of the motor vehicle to at least one external evaluation device for determining interference area information describing an interference area for environmental sensors of the motor vehicles.