Patent ID: 9184778
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A vehicle information gathering system comprising: an onboard communication device configured to communicate with a plurality of external data sources; an onboard storage device, wherein the onboard controller is further configured to repeatedly determine the availability of each of the plurality of external data sources and adjust the priority levels of the data subset references as the current vehicle location changes configured to store a data set comprising a plurality of data subset references, each of the data subset references having a respective one of a plurality of priority levels assigned thereto; and an onboard controller configured to automatically determine an availability of each of the plurality of external data sources at a current vehicle location, automatically assign a respective communication priority for the current vehicle location to each of the respective data subset references based on the availability of each of the plurality of external data sources at the current vehicle location and the respective priority levels assigned thereto, automatically assign at least one of the plurality of external data sources at the current vehicle location to each of the data subset references based on the availability and the priority levels, and automatically control the communication device to communicate with at least one of the external data sources at the current vehicle location based on the respective communication priority assigned to each of the data subset references to receive at least one data subset via the assigned external data source for storage on the storage device.