VIRTUALIZING VEHICLE COMMUNICATION

Downloadable computer software for recording, synchronization and playback of data from numerous sensors and communication buses in the field of vehicle driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicle driving, multi-modal transportation human-machine interfaces, robotics, and aerospace and other autonomous environments; computer hardware, downloadable software and semi-conductor chips for enabling data networks within automotive and other autonomous environments to be used in end-to-end solutions to enable high speed and scalable in-vehicle networks with additional gateways to external networks, to enable consolidation and unification of different physical networks with heterogeneous protocols, to enable security and authenticity of network data at various layers of network protocol stack, to enable security and authenticity of network nodes and their corresponding hardware and software components, to enable guaranteed quality-of-service (QoS) and time synchronization by providing, among other things, the tools within time-sensitive networking (TSN) protocols, to enable higher levels of automotive safety by providing redundancy through network protocols and architectures and safety-hardened hardware and software components, to enable distributed computing with general purpose and special purpose computer engines and allow consolidation and unification of scattered compute engines and their software, to enable ease of deployment and integration of high level application software within the distributed compute architecture, to enable virtual partitioning of logically disjoint networks over a single physical network, and to enable mechanisms to gather diagnostic network data and statistics, from one or multiple cars, to be processed either in vehicle or out of vehicle in a central processing unit for the purpose of re-optimization of network security and configuration

Custom manufacture of chips for automotive and other autonomous environments; custom manufacture of integrated circuits for automotive and other autonomous environments; manufacturer of chips and semiconductors to the order and specification of others in automotive and other autonomous environments

Custom design of chips and semiconductors in automotive and other autonomous environments; research and development of chips for others in the automotive field and other autonomous environments; design and development of chips and integrated circuits in the automotive field and other autonomous environments