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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:
Jun. 27, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Haoxin Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);

BaekGyu Kim, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); B60W 40/09 (2012.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/008 (2013.01); B60W 40/09 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G07C 5/0816 (2013.01);
Abstract

System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving scheduling tasks within an edge-computing environment. In one embodiment, a method includes, upon establishing a communication connection with a vehicle by an edge device of the edge-computing environment, collecting offloading information about the vehicle including task information describing at least a vehicle task that is to be offloaded to the edge device and context information about aspects relating to operation of the vehicle. The method includes triggering offloading of the vehicle task to the edge device in response to determining that at least the context information satisfies a scheduling threshold. The method includes providing, by the edge device, a result of executing the vehicle task to the vehicle.


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