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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2021
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Seyhan Ucar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Takamasa Higuchi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chang-Heng Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Enes Krijestorac, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Onur Altintas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosed subject matter relates to managing a vehicular micro cloud. A method may include determining join/leave protocols for a vehicular micro cloud and transmitting the join/leave protocols to a local vehicle in a vicinity of the vehicular micro cloud prior to the local vehicle joining the vehicular micro cloud. The join/leave protocols can define at least: 1) a procedure for the local vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud and contribute computing resources to a collaborative micro cloud task, and 2) a protocol for handing an incomplete task when the local vehicle leaves the vehicular micro cloud.