Patent ID: 11861530
Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method for an On-Demand Autonomy (ODA) service, comprising:
receiving, by a scheduler hosted by a cloud-based server and configured to by a processor, communicate with a first vehicle and at least one second vehicle, a trip request for the ODA service from the first vehicle;
seeking, by the scheduler, an agreement for establishing a virtual link with the first vehicle to the at least one second vehicle by identifying the at least one second vehicle from a group of second vehicles;
broadcasting, by the scheduler, the trip request to the group of second vehicles to receive a set of responses submitted by a subset of the group of second vehicles, to identify the at least one second vehicle from submitted responses from the group of second vehicles based on an application using a modeled clone with a set of functionalities, to perform a matching operation between the first vehicle with the at least one second vehicle from the group of second vehicles, and to coordinate one or more responses between the first vehicle and the at least one second vehicle based on results of the matching operation to confirm an acceptance of the agreement;
in response to confirmation of the acceptance of the agreement, creating by the scheduler, a trip plan for the trip request for the ODA service based on a set of preferences received from the first vehicle and the at least one second vehicle, and
presenting, by the scheduler, a heartbeat display to each vehicle that dynamically presents real-time movement corresponding to monitored data that is transmitted back and forth between each vehicle that continuously monitors a set of health parameters associated with each vehicle, wherein the heartbeat display comprises a window that is indicative of a range of a vehicle status being inactive in the virtual link, degraded in the virtual link, and active in the virtual link.