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• the invention provides a method for coordinating a plurality of mobile devic- es. Each mobile device performs the following steps.
• the mobile device determines at least one intention, wherein each intention involves an action to be performed with the mobile device at a specific location and/or at a specific future time point.
• the term intention is used in connection with the invention to describe a planned action (such as the use of a certain parking lot or the use of a road section for driving at a specific speed or the use of a pay desk in a supermarket for paying goods) together with the location, where the action is to be performed, and optionally a time point for performing the action.
• the intention can be described as a data set.
• the invention also comprises a coordinating device for coordinating actions of a plurality of mo- bile devices at a specific location.
• the coordinating device can be for example an apparatus or an electronic circuit or a microcontroller or a microprocessor.
• the coordinating device comprises an authority unit that can be provided as a program module of the coordinating device.
• the authority unit is designed to receive announcement signals from mobile devices wherein each announcement signal describes an intention involving a specific action of the mobile device at the location.
• the intention may also describe a specific future time point for performing the action at the location.
• the invention also comprises embodiments of the mobile device and the co- ordinating device that comprise features that have already been described in connection with the inventive method. Thus, the corresponding embodiment of the inventive mobile device and the inventive coordinating device will not be described here.
• an inventive system for coordinating actions of a plurality of mobile devices at at least one location is provided. Thus, for each location, a respective authority unit is provided by the at least one coordinating device.
• a coor- dinating device can be for example a server of the Internet that provides several authority units, one each for a specific location.
• FIG. shows a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the inventive system.
• the device 2 receive the correction signal 21 and adapts its intention vector V2 to intention vector V2' such that both devices 1 1 will reach location 13 either at different time point in the future or at the same time point T+o, but with adapted speeds such that they drive e.g. at the same speed and can thus drive one behind the other.
• each mobile device 1 1 is a sending and receiving device, which calcu- lates and sends future conditions or plans or intentions to other devices or to a stationary receiver/sender installation, i.e. a coordinating device.
• a mobile device can also receive and interpret intentions of other devices to block/warn, reserve/book or broadcast route or intentions of the future.
• intentions like, e.g., speed, acceleration, breaking, steering, angles and steering speed, mental conditions, supply conditions, preferred route, preferred positions at locations, wanted parking lot, wanted fuel station (gas pump), drive-in time at drive-ins, shopping order with estimated pickup time, a rendezvous point (single-multiple), avoiding objects in future.
• the authority unit 20 is able to combine multiple intentions by handling out priorities and giving feedback to the devices. It has the authority protocol which finally approves and books the intentions.
• One possible priority criteri- on 22 can be the first-come first-serve principle.
• the corresponding announcement signals 19 and the correction signal 21 are broadcast on the basis of OWC/LiFi.

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