Patent ID: 11941648
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A system for a first vehicle comprising:
a Global Positioning System unit having lane-level accuracy;
a first onboard vehicle computer system communicatively coupled to the Global Positioning System unit, wherein the first onboard vehicle computer system that includes a non-transitory memory storing computer code that, when executed by the first onboard vehicle computer system causes the first onboard vehicle computer system to:
create a wireless message that includes path history data, wherein the path history data describes a rate of travel for the first vehicle present in a queue of a drive-through business that provides a roadside service and a lane of travel for the first vehicle within the queue based at least in part on global positioning data retrieved by the Global Positioning System unit wherein the global positioning data describes a location of the first vehicle with a lane-level precision at two or more different points in time so that the path history data has the lane-level precision, wherein the drive-through business includes one or more lanes and the lane-level precision is at least half a width of at least one of the lanes;
determine a length of the drive-through;
estimate by the first onboard computer system, based on the rate of travel, the lane of travel, and the length of the queue, delay time data describing (1) a first number of vehicles in front of the first vehicle in the queue of the drive-through to receive the roadside service and (2) a second number of vehicles behind the first vehicle in the queue to receive the roadside service; and
transmit a wireless message including the delay time data to a second vehicle that is not present in the queue so that a second onboard vehicle computer of the second vehicle is operable to provide a recommendation about the queue based on the delay time data included in the wireless message so that the recommendation is based at least in part on the lane-level precision of the path history data.