Patent ID: 11895566
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 27:
28. A non-transitory processor-readable medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions configured to cause a processor of a vehicle to perform operations comprising:
establishing an out-of-band vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication link with a target vehicle in response to determining a change in a quantity of vehicles included in a platoon is approved, wherein beam steering is used to establish and maintain the out-of-band V2V communication link and the out-of-band V2V communication link extends laterally relative to a direction of travel of the vehicle more than a first V2V communication link with an initially-adjacent platoon vehicle that is currently immediately adjacent the vehicle and is traveling either in front of or behind the vehicle;
expanding the first V2V communication link for maintaining communications with the initially-adjacent platoon vehicle while changing a relative positioning between the vehicle and the initially-adjacent platoon vehicle;
establishing a second V2V communication link with the target vehicle; and
ending the out-of-band V2V communication link in response to the target vehicle taking the place of the initially-adjacent platoon vehicle immediately adjacent to and either in front of or behind the vehicle.