IP Library Granted Patent US 11,657,705
Granted Patent B2
US 11,657,705 · App. 17/325,421 · Granted May 23, 2023

Integrated telecommunications roadside unit

Inventors: Zachery Carter (Cumming, GA); Roger Mahler (Marietta, GA); Erie Lai Har Lau (Redmond, WA); Sangar Dowlatkhah (Johns Creek, GA)
Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC; AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
G08G1/0116G07C5/008H04W4/40H04W76/14H04W88/16
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Patent No.
US 11,657,705
App. No.
17/325,421
Granted
May 23, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Concepts and technologies directed to an integrated telecommunications roadside unit for supporting vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) communications are disclosed herein. Embodiments of an integrated telecommunications roadside unit can include a processor and a memory that store computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include intercepting a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be transmitted using a direct transmission mode. The operations can further include encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in a user plane package. The operations can also include routing the user plane package to a destination network access node, where the destination network access node is outside of a direct communication range corresponding to the first vehicle and the second vehicle.

Claims (48)

1. An integrated telecommunications roadside unit comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

intercepting a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle, wherein the first vehicle, the second vehicle, and the integrated telecommunications roadside unit are within a direct communication range,

determining, based at least in part on the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, that an extant condition exists,

determining that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication was transmitted by the first vehicle via a direct transmission mode, wherein the direct transmission mode indicates that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is configured for transmission without traversing a network,

generating a user plane package that conforms with a network access protocol of the network,

encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in the user plane package,

routing, by a network access transceiver of the integrated telecommunications roadside unit via the network, the user plane package encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to a destination network access node outside of the direct communication range,

after routing the user plane package encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to the destination network access node, determining, based at least in part on a subsequent vehicle-to-vehicle communication, that the extant condition no longer exists, and

instructing the destination network access node to cease distributing the vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

2. The integrated telecommunications roadside unit of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is provided from the first vehicle to the second vehicle via a vehicle communication interface that uses the direct transmission mode.

3. The integrated telecommunications roadside unit of claim 1 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to decapsulate the vehicle-to-vehicle communication from the user plane package such that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication remains intact.

4. The integrated telecommunications roadside unit of claim 1 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to provide the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to a third vehicle.

5. The integrated telecommunications roadside unit of claim 4 , wherein the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is provided to the third vehicle via a vehicle communication interface that uses the direct transmission mode.

6. The integrated telecommunications roadside unit of claim 4 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to generate a vehicle-to-network communication based on the vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

7. The integrated telecommunications roadside unit of claim 6 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to provide the vehicle-to-network communication to one or more user equipment, wherein the vehicle-to-network communication is provided from the destination network access node to the one or more user equipment over a network communication interface that uses a network transmission mode.

8. A method comprising:

intercepting, by an integrated telecommunications roadside unit comprising a processor, a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle, wherein the first vehicle, the second vehicle, and the integrated telecommunications roadside unit are within a direct communication range;

determining, by the integrated telecommunications roadside unit based at least in part on the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, that an extant condition exists;

determining, by the integrated telecommunications roadside unit, that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication was transmitted by the first vehicle via a direct transmission mode, wherein the direct transmission mode indicates that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is configured for transmission without traversing a network;

generating, by the integrated telecommunications roadside unit, a user plane package that conforms with a network access protocol of the network;

encapsulating, by the integrated telecommunications roadside unit, the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in the user plane package;

routing, by a network access transceiver of the integrated telecommunications roadside unit via the network, the user plane package encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to a destination network access node, wherein the destination network access node is outside of the direct communication range;

after routing the user plane package encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to the destination network access node, determining, by the integrated telecommunications roadside unit based at least in part on a subsequent vehicle-to-vehicle communication, that the extant condition no longer exists; and

instructing, by the integrated telecommunications roadside unit, the destination network access node to cease distributing the vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is provided from the first vehicle to the second vehicle via a vehicle communication interface that uses the direct transmission mode.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to decapsulate the vehicle-to-vehicle communication from the user plane package such that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication remains intact.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to provide the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to a third vehicle.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is provided to the third vehicle via a vehicle communication interface that uses the direct transmission mode.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to generate a vehicle-to-network communication based on the vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to provide the vehicle-to-network communication to one or more user equipment, wherein the vehicle-to-network communication is provided from the destination network access node to the one or more user equipment over a network communication interface that uses a network transmission mode.

15. A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a processor of an integrated telecommunications roadside unit, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

intercepting a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle, wherein the first vehicle, the second vehicle, and the integrated telecommunications roadside unit are within a direct communication range;

determining, based at least in part on the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, that an extant condition exists;

determining that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication was transmitted by the first vehicle via a direct transmission mode, wherein the direct transmission mode indicates that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is configured for transmission without traversing a network;

generating a user plane package that conforms with a network access protocol of the network;

encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in the user plane package;

routing, by a network access transceiver of the integrated telecommunications roadside unit via the network, the user plane package encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to a destination network access node, wherein the destination network access node is outside of the direct communication range;

after routing the user plane package encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to the destination network access node, determining, based at least in part on a subsequent vehicle-to-vehicle communication, that the extant condition no longer exists; and

instructing the destination network access node to cease distributing the vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

16. The computer storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is provided from the first vehicle to the second vehicle via a vehicle communication interface that uses the direct transmission mode.

17. The computer storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the user plane package is configured to

instruct the destination network access node to decapsulate the vehicle-to-vehicle communication from the user plane package such that the vehicle-to-vehicle communication remains intact, and

instruct the destination network access node to provide the vehicle-to-vehicle communication to a third vehicle.

18. The computer storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to generate a vehicle-to-network communication based on the vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

19. The computer storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is provided to a third vehicle via a vehicle communication interface that uses the direct transmission mode.

20. The computer storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the user plane package is configured to instruct the destination network access node to provide the vehicle-to-network communication to one or more user equipment, wherein the vehicle-to-network communication is provided from the destination network access node to the one or more user equipment over a network communication interface that uses a network transmission mode.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2021
From: CARTER, ZACHERY; LAU, ERIE LAI HAR; DOWLATKHAH, SANGAR
To: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Reel/Frame 056337/0470 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2021
From: MAHLER, ROGER
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
Reel/Frame 056337/0482 →
Continuity (2)
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