Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Clusterhead device that functions as a gateway between vehicular ad-hoc network and cellular network
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Application No.: US15356228Application Date: 2016-11-18
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Publication No.: US10079891B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Jose Francisco Monserrat Del Rio , Daniel Calabuig Soler , David Gozalvez Serrano , Oliver Klemp
- Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: DE102014209579 20140520
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04W4/80 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W84/20 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W4/00 ; H04W4/04

Abstract:
A clusterhead device is capable of relaying group messages from a cellular network to an ad-hoc network, and vice versa. However, not every device that comprises a clusterhead device is activated as a clusterhead. Rather, only devices that do not receive enough beacon signals emitted by each motor vehicle are activated as a clusterhead. It is thus achieved that not too many motor vehicles function as a gateway.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170070577A1 Clusterhead Device That Functions as a Gateway Between Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network and Cellular Network Public/Granted day:2017-03-09
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