Patent ID: 8254348

Claim:
A method of communicating between vehicles comprising: initiating an internet protocol layer on a first wireless hub of a first vehicle; synchronizing the first wireless hub with at least a second wireless hub of a second vehicle; updating network configuration information at the first wireless hub, wherein the network configuration information includes the relative physical positions of the first wireless hub and the second wireless hub; sending the network configuration information from the first wireless hub to the second wireless hub; using a routing protocol to discover new routes between the first wireless hub and the second wireless hub, wherein the first wireless hub and the second wireless hub are nodes in an ad-hoc network; when a route between the first wireless hub and the second wireless hub is not currently available from the routing protocol, temporarily sending packets from the first wireless hub toward the second wireless hub based on the relative physical positions of the first wireless hub and the second wireless hub until any routing protocol finds a new route between the first wireless hub and the second wireless hub receiving a voice signal at the first wireless hub; converting the voice signal into packets; and sending the packets from the first wireless hub to the second wireless hub using a networking protocol.