System and method for controlling vehicle data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10424128-B2
Application number	US-201615288083-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2016
Priority date	Oct 13, 2015
Publication date	Sep 24, 2019
Grant date	Sep 24, 2019

Abstract

A method for controlling data acquired from vehicles, wherein case data are anonymized and provides data reduction. Control exists between the units of each vehicle, between the vehicles and a backend of the system, between the units of the backend, and also between the units of the backend and at least one external service provider. The data are reduced by avoiding the transmission of redundant data or by avoiding unnecessary data acquisition.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling data relating to a transportation vehicle to anonymize transmission of requested transportation vehicle data, wherein the transportation vehicle includes a communication unit, a first data receiver, a second data receiver, a basic application and at least one data application, and wherein the transportation vehicle is identified with an identification, the method comprising:
requesting data from the at least one data application of the transportation vehicle with regard to a specific geographic position for the transportation vehicle;
acquiring basic data relating to the transportation vehicle by the first data receiver of the transportation vehicle;
transmitting the basic data relating to the transportation vehicle to the basic application of the transportation vehicle;
coding the identification of the transportation vehicle;
transmitting the basic data containing the coded identification of the transportation vehicle to a basic service of a backend via the communication unit of the transportation vehicle;
acquiring the requested data by the second data receiver of the transportation vehicle;
transmitting the requested data to the at least one data application of the transportation vehicle;
allocating, by the at least one data application of the transportation vehicle, an identifier to the requested data; and
transmitting the requested data with the allocated identifier to a first service via the communication unit of the transportation vehicle,
wherein the allocated identifier of the requested data allocated by the at least one data application of the transportation vehicle and the coded identification of the transportation vehicle enable anonymizing the transmission of the requested data from the at least one data application of the transportation vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request for data from the at least one data application is made from the basic service of the backend at the request of the first service, and the request comprises at least one of specifications for at least one of accuracy or the transmission of the requested data or specifications for at least one of accuracy or the transmission of the basic data, and at least one of the requested data or the basic data being acquired or transmitted according to the requested specifications.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first data receiver is a GPS receiver, and the basic data is transportation vehicle position data, and the method further comprises:
determining, based on the acquired basic data relating to the transportation vehicle, whether the transportation vehicle is within a predefined region with respect to the specific geographic position; and
requesting data from the at least one data application is performed only in response to determining, based on the acquired basic data relating to the transportation vehicle, that the transportation vehicle is within the predefined region with respect to the specific geographic position.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein basic data is transmitted to the basic application of the transportation vehicle only in response to a determination, based on the acquired basic data relating to the transportation vehicle, that the transportation vehicle is within the predefined region with respect to the specific geographic position.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein requested data is acquired by the second data receiver only in response to a determination, based on the acquired basic data relating to the transportation vehicle, that the transportation vehicle is within the predefined region with respect to the specific geographic position.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising registering the at least one data application with the basic service of the backend, wherein the requested data containing the allocated identifier of the at least one data application is transmitted to a first service via a communication unit only by the basic service of the backend.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein requested data is acquired periodically by the second data receiver or basic data is acquired periodically by the first data receiver.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data from the second data receiver is transmitted periodically to the at least one data application or the basic data from the first data receiver is transmitted periodically to the basic application.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the requested data relating to the transportation vehicle is transmitted periodically to the backend.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising independently setting transmission and acquisition rates.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein data from a multiplicity of transportation vehicles is controlled, wherein each transportation vehicle from the multiplicity of transportation vehicles comprises at least one communication unit, a first data receiver, a second data receiver, a data application and a basic application.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising registering a specific transportation vehicle of the multiplicity of transportation vehicles with the backend by assigning/allocating a unique identification for the specific transportation vehicle.

13. An on-vehicle configuration for controlling data relating to a transportation vehicle identified with an identification to anonymize transmission of requested transportation vehicle data, the on-vehicle configuration comprising:
a communication unit;
a first data receiver coupled to the communication and acquiring basic data related to the transportation vehicle;
a second data receiver coupled to the communication unit;
a basic application; and
at least one data application,
wherein the basic application requests data from the at least one data application with regard to a specific geographic position for the transportation vehicle,
wherein the at least one data application transmits the basic data relating to the transportation vehicle to the basic application,
wherein the identification of the transportation vehicle is coded by the communication unit, which then transmits the basic data containing the coded identification of the transportation vehicle to a basic service of a backend,
wherein the second data receiver acquires the requested data,
wherein the requested data is transmitted by the communication unit to the at least one data application, which then allocates an identifier for the requested data,
wherein the requested data is transmitted with the allocated identifier to a first service via the communication unit such that the identifier of the at least one data application and the coded identification of the transportation vehicle enable anonymizing the transmission of the requested data.

14. The configuration of claim 13 , wherein the request for data from the at least one data application is made from the basic service of the backend at the request of the first service, and the request comprises at least one of specifications for the accuracy or the transmission of the requested data or specifications for the accuracy or the transmission of the basic data, and the requested data or the basic data being acquired or transmitted according to the requested specifications.

15. The configuration of claim 13 , wherein the first data receiver is a GPS receiver, wherein the basic data is transportation vehicle position data, wherein depending on the acquired basic data relating to the transportation vehicle, a determination is made whether the transportation vehicle is within a predefined region with respect to the specific geographic position, and the da

Assignees

• Volkswagen Ag

Inventors

• Oberschachtsiek André
• Pflug Florian
• Decke Hendrik

Classifications

• H04W4/30

  Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes · CPC title

• H04W12/02

  Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII] · CPC title

• H04W4/18

  Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals · CPC title

• H04W4/44

  for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] · CPC title

• H04W4/40

  for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] · CPC title