Filtering infrastructure description messages

US9721469B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Grotendorst · Eschborn, DE
• Marc Menzel · Weimar, DE
• Richard Scherping · Liederbach am Taunus, DE
• Ulrich Stählin · Eschborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 1, 2017
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2034

Classification

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

Abstract

A method for filtering infrastructure description messages packed in data packages, the messages being transmitted in a vehicular ad hoc network, along with positional information messages for the localization of individual participating nodes, in order to describe the status of the vehicular ad hoc network and/or a street on which the participating nodes are located. The method includes the following steps: receiving one of the infrastructure description messages at a participating node; evaluating the received infrastructure description message as to whether a response is required; and filtering the evaluated infrastructure description message based on a predetermined criterion for whether a response is required.