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

Claim 11:
12. A vehicle, comprising:
a wireless transceiver; and
a processor coupled to the wireless transceiver, wherein the processor is configured with processor-executable instructions to:
establish an out-of-hand 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 the vehicle uses beam steering 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;
expand 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;
establish a second V2V communication link with the target vehicle; and
end 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.