US 11,875,686 B2
Systems and methods for managing communications between vehicles
Colleen Twitty, San Francisco, CA (US); Evan Nakano, Cupertino, CA (US); Stephen Erlien, Mountain View, CA (US); and Joshua Switkes, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Peloton Technology., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Peloton Technology, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/751,523.
Application 17/008,443 is a division of application No. 16/173,908, filed on Oct. 29, 2018, granted, now 10,762,791, issued on Sep. 1, 2020.
Application 17/751,523 is a continuation of application No. 17/008,443, filed on Aug. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,341,856.
Prior Publication US 2023/0114886 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01)
CPC G08G 1/22 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0289 (2013.01); G05D 1/0293 (2013.01); G05D 1/0295 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 76/30 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for managing platoonable vehicles comprising:
a computer processor; and
a platoon control module executing on the computer processor and configured to enable the computer processor to:
establish a wireless link between a first vehicle and a second vehicle;
attempt to start a draw-in portion of a platooning engagement between the first vehicle and the second vehicle;
in response to receiving at least a threshold amount of packets per a period of time over the wireless link:
(1) cause the first vehicle and the second vehicle to start the draw-in portion of the platooning engagement; or
(2) continue a steady state portion of the platooning engagement; and
in response to receiving less than the threshold amount of packets per a period of time over the wireless link:
(1) cause the first vehicle and the second vehicle to not start the draw-in portion of the platooning engagement; or
(2) start the dissolve portion of the platooning engagement.