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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. 24, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2020
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Jonathan Hart, London, GB;

Ruth Brown, London, GB;

Maria Cuevas Ramirez, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01); G08B 25/10 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/0841 (2013.01); G08B 25/10 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/90 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method of operating a device, the device being configured to communicate with a wireless telecommunications network and the device being in the form of an Autonomous Vehicle (AV), the method comprising the steps of: detecting a fault associated with the AV; and in response to detecting said fault, causing the AV to transmit a mayday wireless network communication for alerting the wireless telecommunications network of the fault; in response to the mayday wireless network communication, identifying a recovery AV that is capable of retrieving at least part of the AV and delivering said at least part to an intended destination; and instructing the recovery AV to perform the retrieving and delivering by communicating an instructing message, wherein the instructing message is in the form of a system information message.


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