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

Claim 20:
21. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for cloud-based communication management that, when executed by a cloud server in communications over a communications network, cause the cloud server to perform operations comprising to:
periodically receive status information sent from vehicles, the status information indicative of vehicle location, state of charge, whether the vehicles are being used as a power source, and whether the vehicles are in a parked state or a motive state;
maintain the status information regarding the vehicles to a non-volatile storage;
receive, over the 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 being 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.