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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:
Jul. 19, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2021
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Oliver Lei, Windsor, CA;

Vladyslav Slyusar, Northville, MI (US);

Somak Datta Gupta, Novi, MI (US);

Jayanthi Rao, West Bloomfield, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/06 (2009.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/06 (2013.01); G08G 1/141 (2013.01); G08G 1/146 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.02);
Abstract

A point-to-multipoint retransmit of the parking availability data is performed with a predefined update period. A quantity of unicast requests for parking availability is received via one or more cellular towers. If the quantity of unicast requests received within the predefined update period exceeds a ratio of point-to-multipoint bandwidth to unicast messaging bandwidth of the one or more cellular towers, a transition is made to use of the point-to-multipoint messaging for sending the parking availability data via the one or more cellular towers; and otherwise, a transition is made to use of the unicast messaging for sending the parking availability data via the one or more cellular towers.


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