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

Claim 0:
1. A system for cloud-based communication management, comprising:
a cloud server; and
a non-volatile storage of the cloud server configured to maintain status information for vehicles, wherein the status information is received to the cloud server from the vehicles;
wherein the cloud server is programmed to
receive, over a communications network, a request from a requesting device, the request intended to be performed by one of the vehicles,
categorize the request 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, send the request 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, send 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, indicate that the request cannot be proceeded with.