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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2012
Applicant:
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Inventors:
Brian Mintah, Washington, IL (US);
Jeffrey J Schmidgall, Morton, IL (US);
Assignee:
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04W 84/08 (2009.01); H04W 40/30 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04W 84/08 (2013.01); H04W 40/30 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication network for a fleet of vehicles is disclosed. The communication network has a first group of the fleet of vehicles having a first level of priority on the network and a second group of the fleet of vehicles having a second level of priority on the network. A first vehicle in the first group is assigned as a supervisor of a second vehicle in the second group.