Connected vehicle bandwidth-based network selection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022232462-A1
Application number	US-202117463244-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 31, 2021
Priority date	Aug 28, 2018
Publication date	Jul 21, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to techniques for dynamic management of the network used for data transfer between a connected vehicle and a remote computing system. For example, during navigation a connected vehicle may switch between connections to a number of different networks, and the pricing of these networks may be periodically recalculated based on current network load. The disclosed techniques can select from among available networks to dynamically optimize the cost of data transfer, even as a vehicle navigates through different networks and as network pricing is changed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A connected vehicle, comprising:
at least one transceiver configured to connect to wireless networks; and a computing system configured to execute a network connection manager, wherein the network connection manager is configured by computer-executable instructions to at least:
identify at least first and second wireless networks that are available for the connected vehicle to use for transferring data;
receive first differentiated pricing information from the first wireless network, the first differentiated pricing information indicating a first cost of transferring data over the first wireless network, the first cost determined based on a current load on the first wireless network;
receive second differentiated pricing information from the second wireless network, the second differentiated pricing information indicating a second cost of transferring data over the second wireless network, the second cost determined based on a current load on the second wireless network;
identify, based on the first and second costs, which one of the first and second wireless networks that corresponds to a lowest cost; and
configure the at least one transceiver to transfer data over the one of the first and second wireless networks that corresponds to the lowest cost.

2 . The connected vehicle networking system of claim 1 , wherein the network connection manager is configured to at least:
configure the at least one transceiver at a first time; determine, at a second time after the first time, that the first and second wireless networks are still available for the connected vehicle to use for transferring data; receive updated differentiated pricing information from one or both of the first and second wireless networks; determine, based on the updated differentiated pricing information, which of the first and second networks corresponds to the lowest cost at the second time; and reconfigure the at least one transceiver to transfer data over the one of the first and second wireless networks that corresponds to the lowest cost at the second time.

3 . The connected vehicle networking system of claim 1 , wherein the network connection manager is configured to at least:
continue to identify and analyze pricing of various wireless networks that become available as the connected vehicle navigates along a route; and at various points in time, select from among the various wireless networks based on current differentiated pricing information.

4 . A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving differentiated pricing information from a plurality of wireless networks that are available for a connected vehicle to use for transferring data, the differentiated pricing information for a particular wireless network determined based on a current load on the particular wireless network and indicating a cost of transferring data over the particular wireless network; based on the differentiated pricing information, selecting a wireless network from among the plurality of wireless networks that corresponds to a lowest cost; and configuring the connected vehicle to transfer data over the selected wireless network that corresponds to the lowest cost.

5 . The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising causing transfer of data over the selected wireless network.

6 . The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , further comprising:
receiving updated differentiated pricing information from at least one of the plurality of wireless networks or a new wireless networks; based on the updated differentiated pricing information, selecting an updated wireless network that corresponds to the lowest cost; and continuing the transfer of data using the updated wireless network.

Assignees

• Faraday&Future Inc

Inventors

• Barany Peter A

Classifications

• H04W4/44

  for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] · CPC title

• H04W48/18 Primary

  Selecting a network or a communication service · CPC title

• H04W48/16

  Discovering, processing access restriction or access information · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04M15/81

  Dynamic pricing, e.g. change of tariff during call · CPC title