Identifying nearby vehicles for connected vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11979847-B2
Application number	US-202117493289-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 4, 2021
Priority date	Oct 4, 2021
Publication date	May 7, 2024
Grant date	May 7, 2024

Abstract

Handshaking is performed, by an ego device via a wireless transceiver, with surrounding mobile devices to receive identifiers of the surrounding mobile devices and incoming notification messages from the surrounding mobile devices. Each of the incoming notification messages are sent from a different respective sender device of the surrounding mobile devices and include identifiers of devices seen by the sender device and an indication of whether issues with the devices seen by the sender device were identified by the sender device. An alert is raised responsive to an issue being indicated with the ego device based on the incoming notification messages.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An ego device for crowd-sourced identification of device issues, comprising:
a wireless transceiver of the ego device; and
a processor of the ego device programmed to
handshake, via the wireless transceiver, with surrounding mobile devices to receive identifiers of the surrounding mobile devices and incoming notification messages from the surrounding mobile devices,
each of the incoming notification messages being sent from a different respective sender device of the surrounding mobile devices and including identifiers of devices seen by the sender device and an indication of whether issues with the devices seen by the sender device were identified by the sender device, and
raise an alert responsive to an issue being indicated with the ego device based on the incoming notification messages.

2. The ego device of claim 1 , further comprising:
one or more sensors of the ego device,
wherein the processor is further programmed to
capture, from the one or more sensors, sensor data of observed mobile devices,
identify issues with the observed mobile devices according to the sensor data, and
send outgoing notification messages to the surrounding mobile devices, via the wireless transceiver, the outgoing notification messages including the identifiers of the surrounding mobile devices and an indication of whether issues with the observed mobile devices were identified by the ego device.

3. The ego device of claim 2 , wherein the incoming notification messages and the outgoing notification messages avoid inclusion of personal identifiable information.

4. The ego device of claim 2 , wherein the ego device, the observed mobile devices, and the surrounding mobile devices are vehicles.

5. The ego device of claim 2 , wherein one or more of the ego device, the observed mobile devices, and the surrounding mobile devices are mobile phones.

6. The ego device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to determine an issue is indicated with the ego device based on the incoming notification messages indicating an issue with at least a minimum threshold.

7. The ego device of claim 6 , wherein the minimum threshold is a minimum percentage of the incoming notification messages.

8. A method for crowd-sourced identification of device issues, comprising:
handshaking, by an ego device via a wireless transceiver, with surrounding mobile devices to receive identifiers of the surrounding mobile devices and incoming notification messages from the surrounding mobile devices, each of the incoming notification messages being sent from a different respective sender device of the surrounding mobile devices and including identifiers of devices seen by the sender device and an indication of whether issues with the devices seen by the sender device were identified by the sender device; and
raising an alert responsive to an issue being indicated with the ego device based on the incoming notification messages.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
capturing, from one or more sensors of the ego device, sensor data of observed mobile devices;
identifying issues with the observed mobile devices according to the sensor data; and
sending outgoing notification messages to the surrounding mobile devices, via the wireless transceiver, the outgoing notification messages including the identifiers of the surrounding mobile devices and an indication of whether issues with the observed mobile devices were identified by the ego device.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the incoming notification messages and the outgoing notification messages avoid inclusion of personal identifiable information.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising determining an issue is indicated with the ego device based on the incoming notification messages indicating an issue with at least a minimum threshold.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the minimum threshold is a minimum percentage of the incoming notification messages.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the ego device and the surrounding mobile devices are vehicles.

14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
sending the notification messages from the ego device and the surrounding mobile devices to a cloud server;
determining, by the cloud server, which of the ego device and the surrounding mobile devices are experiencing an issue; and
raising an alert responsive to an issue being indicated with the ego device or one or more of the surrounding mobile devices based on the notification messages.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for crowd-sourced identification of device issues that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including to:
handshake, by an ego device via a wireless transceiver of the ego device, with surrounding mobile devices to receive identifiers of the surrounding mobile devices and incoming notification messages from the surrounding mobile devices, each of the incoming notification messages being sent from a different respective sender device of the surrounding mobile devices and including identifiers of devices seen by the sender device and an indication of whether issues with the devices seen by the sender device were identified by the sender device; and
raise an alert responsive to an issue being indicated with the ego device based on the incoming notification messages.

16. The medium of claim 15 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including to:
capture, from one or more sensors of the ego device, sensor data of observed mobile devices;
identify issues with the observed mobile devices according to the sensor data; and
send outgoing notification messages to the surrounding mobile devices, via the wireless transceiver, the outgoing notification messages including the identifiers of the surrounding mobile devices and an indication of whether issues with the observed mobile devices were identified by the ego device.

17. The medium of claim 16 , wherein the incoming notification messages and the outgoing notification messages avoid inclusion of personal identifiable information.

18. The medium of claim 16 , wherein in the ego device, the observed mobile devices, and the surrounding mobile devices are vehicles.

19. The medium of claim 15 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including to determine an issue is indicated with the ego device based on the incoming notification messages indicating an issue with at least a minimum threshold.

20. The medium of claim 19 , wherein the minimum threshold is a minimum percentage of the incoming notification messages.

21. The medium of claim 15 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including to
sending the notification messages from the ego device and the surrounding mobile devices to a cloud server;
determining, by the cloud server, which of the ego device and the surrounding mobile devices are experiencing an issue; and
raising an alert responsive to an issue being indicated with the ego device or one or more of the surrounding mobile devices based on the notification messages.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Lu Chenliu Stephen
• Roy Judhajit
• Barker Jonathan
• Cole W Cary
• King Jared
• Yeakle Kyle

Classifications

• H04W64/003 Primary

  locating network equipment · CPC title

• H04W4/46 Primary

  for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V] · CPC title

• H04W68/005

  Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication · CPC title

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W76/15

  Setup of multiple wireless link connections · CPC title