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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2023
Sonatus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yu Fang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xuanran Zong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James Murphy, Alameda, CA (US);
Rohit Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Jaime Alcantara Portillo, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sonatus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An example apparatus includes a vehicle with a network management controller. The vehicle having a multi-zone network including a plurality of network zones including a zone manager and arranged according to a network topology description. The network management controller includes a zone implementation circuit structured to interpret a zoned architecture communication scheme; a zone manager command circuit structured to interpret a zone manager command description for each of the at least one zone managers; and a zone execution circuit structured to provide the corresponding zone manager command description to each of the at least one zone managers; and where each of the at least one zone managers is responsive to the corresponding zone manager command description to control communications between end points of the corresponding network zone and end points of at least one other zone of the plurality of network zones.