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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2023
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya-city, JP;
Inventor:
Kousuke Yamaoka, Kariya-city, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-city, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0833 (2024.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/085 (2013.01); H04W 28/0273 (2013.01); H04W 28/0289 (2013.01); H04W 36/1446 (2023.05); H04W 36/326 (2023.05);
Abstract
A vehicle device includes: an estimation information acquirer configured to acquire estimation information that enables estimation of an offloading wait time according to an encounter probability at which a target vehicle encounters an access point of a wireless network usable as a second line; a wait time estimator configured to estimate the offloading wait time based on the estimation information acquired by the estimation information acquirer; and an offloading determiner configured to determine whether or not offloading is performable based on the offloading wait time estimated by the wait time estimator.