Patent ID: 11968606
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC B  H

Claim 10:
11. A method for cloud-based communication management, comprising:
maintaining status information regarding vehicles to a non-volatile storage, wherein the status information is received to a cloud server over a communications network from the vehicles;
receiving, to the cloud server over the communications network, a request from a requesting device, the request intended to be performed by one of the vehicles;
categorizing the request, by the cloud server, based on the request and the status information for the one of the vehicles;
responsive to the request being categorized as able to being deferred, schedule the request including to maintain the request at the cloud server for later processing;
responsive to the request being categorized as performable by a mobile edge computing (MEC) device in a cell of the communications network instead of the one of the vehicles, sending the request by the cloud server to the MEC device to be processed by the MEC device instead of being performed by the one of the vehicles;
responsive to the request being categorized as not being performable by the MEC device but being performable by the one of the vehicles, sending the request to the one of the vehicles to be processed by the one of the vehicles; and
responsive to the request being categorized as not being performable by the MEC device or by the one of the vehicles, indicating that the request cannot be proceeded with.