Patent ID: 9376971
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: B60W,B61L,F02D,G01C

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: controlling a vehicle to travel along a route according to a trip plan that designates first operational settings of the vehicle as a function of one or more of time or distance along the route as the vehicle moves along the route; receiving plural requests to revise the trip plan as the vehicle moves along the route; classifying individual requests based on a determined necessity of the requests; determining a hierarchical order of the requests based on the determined necessity of the requests; revising the trip plan according to one or more of the requests based on the hierarchical order; comparing parameters of the requests that are received to identify a first optional request that corresponds to a first mandatory request; combining the first optional request and the first mandatory request into a combined request; and revising the first operational settings of the trip plan according to the combined request.