The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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. 16, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bei Chen, Blanchardstown, IE;

Adi I. Botea, Dublin, IE;

Akihiro Kishimoto, Dublin, IE;

Beat Buesser, Dublin, IE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3415 (2013.01); G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); G05D 1/02 (2013.01); G05D 1/0291 (2013.01); G05D 1/0293 (2013.01); G08G 1/20 (2013.01); G08G 1/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments describe an approach for coordinating the travel of multiple vehicles traveling to a target destination, the embodiments describe generating a travel group, receiving travel group parameters from travel group members, synced GPS applications, and a weather application, generating a course of travel for the travel group members to reach a destination, and tracking each travel group member according to locations identified by the synced GPS applications. Additionally, embodiments describe determining that a subgroup of the travel group is no longer traveling within a pre-determined range of other travel group members; calculating an optimized course of travel for the subgroup to reunite with the other travel group members, adjusting the course of travel to include the optimized course of action for the subgroup, and causing each GPS application to direct the subgroup to travel according to the optimized course of travel.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…