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

Claim 5:
6. A method for using idle computing power of an electric vehicle, comprising:
creating task packets, wherein each of the task packets includes a plurality of computing tasks and corresponding task rates for each of the plurality of computing tasks;
determining, by a vehicle controller of the electric vehicle, whether the electric vehicle is in motion;
in response to determining that the electric vehicle is in motion, searching for a plurality of charging infrastructures that are located within a predetermined distance from the electric vehicle while the electric vehicle is in motion;
determining that the vehicle controller of the electric vehicle has idling computing power;
selecting one of the plurality of charging infrastructures to determine a selected charging infrastructure;
sending the computing tasks to the vehicle controller of the electric vehicle; and
in response to sending the computing tasks to the vehicle controller of the electric vehicle, receiving results of a performance of the computing tasks by the vehicle controller while a charging infrastructure supplies electrical power to the electric vehicle.