US 11,929,878 B2
System, method, and apparatus for extra vehicle communications control
Yu Fang, Palo Alto, CA (US); Yixiang Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US); Xuanran Zong, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Andrew Ling, Daly City, CA (US); and Jan Cardenas, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Sonatus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by SONATUS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,738.
Application 17/570,738 is a continuation of application No. 17/027,187, filed on Sep. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,228,496.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/903,462, filed on Sep. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/911,249, filed on Oct. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/911,248, filed on Oct. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/986,444, filed on Mar. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/024,383, filed on May 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0131753 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 41/0893 (2022.01); H04L 41/28 (2022.01); H04L 43/0876 (2022.01); H04L 47/20 (2022.01); H04L 61/3015 (2022.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 41/0893 (2013.01) [G07C 5/008 (2013.01); H04L 41/28 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 47/20 (2013.01); H04L 61/3025 (2013.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.05); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
interpreting a network usage permission description that comprises at least two of:
an up-sampling rate that configures communications to an external device,
a down-sampling rate that configures communications to the external device,
a data routing path structured to limit utilization of a network by communications to the external device,
a data rate limitation of communications over a network to the external device, or
a priority value for communications to the external device;
configuring a gatekeeper interface circuit in response to the network usage permission description; and
regulating communications, using the gatekeeper interface circuit, between:
end points of at least one network zone of a mobile system; and
at least one of an external communications portal or the external device.