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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2020
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);
Timothy Raymond Vangoethem, Milford, MI (US);
Günther Kraft, Karlsruhe, DE;
HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Options are disclosed for in-vehicle systems and methods of allocating local and remote hardware computing resources. One such system for controlling a vehicle includes a first computing device physically positioned in the vehicle, a second computing device positioned away from the vehicle, and an elastic computing module communicatively coupled to the first computing device and the second computing device, the elastic computing module configured to: determine computing and memory capacities of the first computing device and the second computing device; determine software demands of a software application for controlling a component of the vehicle; and dynamically allocate processing of the software application to the first computing device and/or the second computing device based on the computing and memory capacities of the first and second computing devices and the software demands of the software application.