Network-controllable physical resources for vehicular transport system safety

US10885785B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

• Tan Xu · Bound Brook Junction, US
• Eric Zavesky · Austin, US
• Bernard S. Renger · New Providence, US
• Behzad Shahraray · Holmdel, US
• David Crawford Gibbon · Lincroft, US
• Zhu Liu · Marlboro, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 5, 2021
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/166
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for adjusting at least one network-controllable physical resource in response to detecting that a network-connected vehicle comprises a potential hazard to an animate being with a registered safety need are disclosed. In one example, a processing system including at least one processor may identify a network-connected vehicle and a animate being with a registered safety need, detect that the network-connected vehicle poses a potential hazard to the animate being with the registered safety need, transmit a first warning to the network-connected vehicle of the potential hazard, and adjust at least one network-controllable physical resource in response to the detecting that the network-connected vehicle poses the potential hazard to the animate being with the registered safety need.