Patent ID: 11869025
Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A system for using idle computing power of an electric vehicle, comprising:
a charging infrastructure including a station controller, wherein the station controller is programmed to:
receive computing tasks from a remote server;
send the computing tasks to a vehicle controller of the electric vehicle;
receive an acceptance signal from the vehicle controller, wherein the acceptance signal is indicative that the vehicle controller accepted to perform the computing tasks; and
in response to receiving the acceptance signal from the vehicle controller, command the charging infrastructure to supply electrical power to the electric vehicle while the vehicle controller performs the computing tasks;
wherein the electric vehicle includes a vehicle controller, and the vehicle controller is programmed to:
determine whether the electric vehicle is in motion;
in response to determining that the electric vehicle is in motion, search for a plurality of charging infrastructures that are located within a predetermined distance from the electric vehicle while the electric vehicle is in motion;
determine that the vehicle controller of the electric vehicle has idling computing power;
in response to determining that the vehicle controller of the electric vehicle has idling computing power, receive a plurality of task rates for performing the computing tasks from each of the plurality of charging infrastructures that is located within the predetermined distance from the electric vehicle;
select one of the plurality of charging infrastructures to determine a selected charging infrastructure;
in response to selecting one of the plurality of charging infrastructures, send the acceptance signal to the remote server, wherein the acceptance signal is indicative that the vehicle controller accepted to perform the computing tasks at the selected charging infrastructure; and
in response to receiving the acceptance signal from the vehicle controller, command the selected charging infrastructure to supply electrical power the electric vehicle while the vehicle controller performs the computing tasks once the electric vehicle is electrically connected to the selected charging infrastructure.