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Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2021
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Martin McEnroe, Plano, TX (US);

Sanjiv Singh, Allen, TX (US);

James Pratt, Round Rock, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/087 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/087 (2013.01); G08G 1/0125 (2013.01); G08G 1/0145 (2013.01); G08G 1/0116 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes determining that a prioritized vehicle plans to traverse an intersection and receiving sensor data from a plurality of sources in a vicinity of the intersection. The method also includes, based on the sensor data, determining a traffic solution to enable the prioritized vehicle to traverse the intersection, the traffic solution identifying a traffic lane and, based on the traffic solution, controlling a traffic light to cause traffic in the traffic lane to disperse and controlling a second traffic light to instruct traffic in an adjacent traffic lane to stop. The method includes instructing the prioritized vehicle to travel via the traffic lane. The traffic in the traffic lane and the traffic in the adjacent traffic lane are traveling in a same direction.


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