Technologies for route navigation sharing in a community cloud

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10222219-B2
Application number	US-201715708338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2017
Priority date	Sep 27, 2014
Publication date	Mar 5, 2019
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019

Abstract

Technologies for sharing route navigation data in a community cloud include a mobile navigation device of a vehicle and a remote mobile navigation device of a remote vehicle. The mobile navigation device generates sensor data associated with a current route of the vehicle and determines whether a reference traffic event occurs within a segment of the current route of the vehicle. In response to a determination that a reference traffic event occurs, the mobile navigation devices transmits route update data to the remote mobile navigation device. Based on the route update data, the remote mobile navigation device updates a current route of the remote vehicle to avoid the reference traffic event within a corresponding segment of the current route of the remote vehicle. The mobile navigation device may also transmit the sensor data to a community compute device, which may transmit route update data to the remote mobile navigation device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A community compute device for sharing route navigation data, the community compute device comprising:
a community route monitoring module to (i) receive sensor data from a first mobile navigation device of a first vehicle, the received sensor data is associated with a current route of the first vehicle, and wherein at least a segment of the current route of the first vehicle corresponds to one or more segments of a current route of a second vehicle and (ii) determine, based on the received sensor data, an occurrence of a reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle; and
a community route determination module to transmit route update data to a second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle in response to the determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle.

2. The community compute device of claim 1 , wherein the community route determination module is further to generate, in response to the determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle, an alternate route for the second vehicle to avoid the one or more segments of the current route of the second vehicle that correspond to the segment of the current route of the first vehicle; and
wherein to transmit the route update data comprises to transmit the alternate route to the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle.

3. The community compute device of claim 1 , wherein the community route determination module is further to (i) determine, in response to the determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle, an alternate route of a plurality of alternate routes for the second vehicle to avoid the one or more segments of the current route of the second vehicle that correspond to the segment of the current route of the first vehicle, wherein each alternate route is associated with a route identifier that identifies each alternate route within the plurality of alternate routes and (ii) determine the route identifier associated with the alternate route determined for the second vehicle; and
wherein to transmit the route update data comprises to transmit, to the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle, the route identifier associated with the alternate route determined for the second vehicle.

4. The community compute device of claim 3 , wherein the community route determination module is further to receive, from the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle, one or more of the plurality of alternate routes and the route identifier associated with each of the one or more of the plurality of alternate routes received; and
wherein to determine the alternate route and the associated route identifier for the second vehicle comprises to determine the alternate route and the associated route identifier for the second vehicle from the one or more alternate routes of the plurality of alternate routes received from the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle.

5. The community compute device of claim 4 , wherein the reference traffic event comprises at least one of a reference amount of traffic congestion, a reference type of traffic accident, a reference amount of roadway construction, a reference roadway obstruction, or a reference roadway hazard.

6. The community compute device of claim 4 , wherein the sensor data received from the first mobile navigation device comprises location data indicative of a current location of the first vehicle.

7. The community compute device of claim 4 , wherein the sensor data received from the first mobile navigation device comprises location data indicative of a current location of the first vehicle and traffic data indicative of a current traffic condition at the current location of the first vehicle.

8. The community compute device of claim 7 , wherein the current traffic condition comprises at least one of a current traffic flow at the current location of the first vehicle, current weather conditions at the current location of the first vehicle, a traffic accident at the current location of the first vehicle, a roadway obstruction at the current location of the first vehicle, or a roadway hazard at the current location of the first vehicle.

9. The community compute device of claim 4 , wherein the community route determination module is further to (i) receive, from the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle, a request for route data associated with a future route of the second vehicle, (ii) generate the requested route data based on historical sensor data associated with a past route of the first vehicle, and (iii) transmit the generated route data to the second mobile navigation device.

10. One or more machine-readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed cause a community compute device to:
receive sensor data from a first mobile navigation device of a first vehicle, the received sensor data is associated with a current route of the first vehicle, and wherein at least a segment of the current route of the first vehicle corresponds to one or more segments of a current route of a second vehicle;
determine, based on the received sensor data, an occurrence of a reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle; and
transmit route update data to a second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle in response to the determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle.

11. The one or more machine-readable media of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the community compute device to generate, in response to the determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle, an alternate route for the second vehicle to avoid the one or more segments of the current route of the second vehicle that correspond to the segment of the current route of the first vehicle; and
wherein to transmit the route update data comprises to transmit the alternate route to the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle.

12. The one or more machine-readable media of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the community compute device to:
determine, in response to the determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the first vehicle, an alternate route of a plurality of alternate routes for the second vehicle to avoid the one or more segments of the current route of the second vehicle that correspond to the segment of the current route of the first vehicle, wherein each alternate route is associated with a route identifier that identifies each alternate route within the plurality of alternate routes; and
determine the route identifier associated with the alternate route determined for the second vehicle; and
wherein to transmit the route update data comprises to transmit, to the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle, the route identifier associated with the alternate route determined for the second vehicle.

13. The one or more machine-readable media of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the community compute device to receive, from the second mobile navigation device of the second vehicle, one or more of the plurality of alternate routes and the route identifier associated w

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Ould-Ahmed-Vall Elmoustapha
• Cheruvu Sunil K

Classifications

• G01C21/3492

  employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical (traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968) · CPC title

• G08G1/0133

  for classifying traffic situation · CPC title

• G08G1/096827

  where the route is computed onboard · CPC title

• G08G1/0141

  for traffic information dissemination · CPC title

• G08G1/0112

  from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD] · CPC title