Patents by Inventor Raghu Prabhudeva

Raghu Prabhudeva has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for improved toll-booth vehicle handling
    Patent number: 11686585
    Abstract: A system comprising a processor configured to advise a vehicle occupant of an advisable route through a tollbooth determined based on tollbooth traffic, responsive to identifying a vehicle as being within a threshold distance of a tollbooth. The processor is also configured to offer an option for toll prepayment responsive to the advisable route corresponding to a prepaid toll lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Raghu Prabhudeva
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED TOLL-BOOTH VEHICLE HANDLING
    Publication number: 20210333113
    Abstract: A system comprising a processor configured to advise a vehicle occupant of an advisable route through a tollbooth determined based on tollbooth traffic, responsive to identifying a vehicle as being within a threshold distance of a tollbooth. The processor is also configured to offer an option for toll prepayment responsive to the advisable route corresponding to a prepaid toll lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Raghu PRABHUDEVA
  • Method and apparatus for improved toll-booth vehicle handling
    Patent number: 11125570
    Abstract: A system comprising a processor configured to advise a vehicle occupant of an advisable route through a tollbooth determined based on tollbooth traffic, responsive to identifying a vehicle as being within a threshold distance of a tollbooth. The processor is also configured to offer an option for toll prepayment responsive to the advisable route corresponding to a prepaid toll lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Raghu Prabhudeva
  • System for dynamically allocating services between controllers in an automobile
    Patent number: 10750339
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a plurality of controllers configured to communicate over a network and programmed to perform a service by operation of a plurality of routines stored and executed in at least one of the controllers. The vehicle includes a gateway controller in communication with the controllers and programmed to transfer at least one of the routines from a first controller to a second controller responsive to performance data indicating reduced performance of the first controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raghu Prabhudeva, Aishwarya Vasu
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED TOLL-BOOTH VEHICLE HANDLING
    Publication number: 20200109955
    Abstract: A system comprising a processor configured to advise a vehicle occupant of an advisable route through a tollbooth determined based on tollbooth traffic, responsive to identifying a vehicle as being within a threshold distance of a tollbooth. The processor is also configured to offer an option for toll prepayment responsive to the advisable route corresponding to a prepaid toll lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventor: Raghu PRABHUDEVA
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20190297472
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller that is configured to establish an ad-hoc network connection according to a first standard, establish a personal area network (PAN) connection with a nomadic device according to a second standard different than the first standard, and responsive to a topic of a broadcast received over the ad-hoc connection matching a profile defined according to internet browser history of the nomadic device, transfer the broadcast to the nomadic device via the PAN connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Raghu Prabhudeva
  • Method and apparatus for vehicular communication
    Patent number: 10405152
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller that is configured to establish an ad-hoc network connection according to a first standard, establish a personal area network (PAN) connection with a nomadic device according to a second standard different than the first standard, and responsive to a topic of a broadcast received over the ad-hoc connection matching a profile defined according to internet browser history of the nomadic device, transfer the broadcast to the nomadic device via the PAN connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Raghu Prabhudeva
  • SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING SERVICES BETWEEN CONTROLLERS IN AN AUTOMOBILE
    Publication number: 20190222984
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a plurality of controllers configured to communicate over a network and programmed to perform a service by operation of a plurality of routines stored and executed in at least one of the controllers. The vehicle includes a gateway controller in communication with the controllers and programmed to transfer at least one of the routines from a first controller to a second controller responsive to performance data indicating reduced performance of the first controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Raghu Prabhudeva, Aishwarya Vasu