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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2013
Electro-motive Diesel, Inc., La Grange, IL (US);
Mark Alan Fanara, Blue Springs, MO (US);
Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
Abstract
A system is provided to expedite the transfer of data between an offboard server and a a locomotive in a consist. A wireless device may be located on each of a plurality of locomotives in the consist. A router may be located on each of the locomotives in the consist, with each router being communicatively coupled to an associated wireless device. A client processor may be located onboard each of the locomotives in the consist, with each client processor being configured to divide data to be transferred between the offboard server and the client processor into a plurality of subsets of data packets, and request transfer of each of the plurality of subsets of data packets in parallel between the offboard server and a different one of the routers on a different one of the plurality of locomotives.