Patent Document ID: 9108582
Application ID: 14189165
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for real-time crash modeling, comprising: using a processor device operatively coupled with at least one sensor in a parallel computing environment, performing: deriving a likelihood of an impact occurring between a first vehicle and a second vehicle; negotiating a crash modeling protocol between the first and the second vehicle by performing: defining a secure communication path for quick and secure transfer of information; comparing onboard modeling facilities; setting the collaborative crash parameters; partitioning the parallel computing environment into partitions between computing nodes representing the first and second vehicles, each partition comprising the variable simulation state for its associated vehicle; determining a time before impact; and determining a number of time steps before impact; and determining an optimal crash sequence that minimizes possible injury and damage by iteratively performing the following within time step boundaries: exchanging information with the first and second vehicles according to the crash modeling protocol, said information comprising a variable simulation state of each vehicle indicating a state of collaborative crash parameters; collaboratively computing a crash model prior to the impact, using the exchanged information, said crash model comprising differential actions for each vehicle to take in order to minimize injury and damage; and exchanging the computed crash model.