Technologies for route navigation sharing in a community cloud

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11629966-B2
Application number	US-202217839035-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2022
Priority date	Sep 27, 2014
Publication date	Apr 18, 2023
Grant date	Apr 18, 2023

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 non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry of a server computing device, cause the processing circuitry to perform operations to:
obtain information from sensor data captured by a first mobile compute device in a first vehicle at a roadway location;
determine, based on the information from the sensor data, an occurrence of a traffic event that interrupts traffic flow at the roadway location;
identify a second vehicle impacted by the traffic event, based on a second mobile compute device in the second vehicle that is associated with a planned route that includes the roadway location; and
communicate route update data to the second mobile compute device, the route update data to change the planned route of the second vehicle to avoid the traffic event at the roadway location.

2. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the operations to communicate the route update data are performed during navigation of the second vehicle.

3. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the route update data causes the second vehicle to change from the planned route to an alternate route that does not include the traffic event.

4. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the traffic event that interrupts the traffic flow at the roadway location corresponds to one or more of: roadway construction, a roadway obstruction, a roadway hazard, a traffic accident, or traffic congestion.

5. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the sensor data is capable of providing an indicator of the traffic flow at the roadway location as encountered by the first vehicle.

6. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the sensor data is generated from motion sensors of the first mobile compute device.

7. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first mobile compute device and the second mobile compute device are mobile phones.

8. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the operations are performed by a cloud service operating at the server computing device.

9. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the planned route of the second vehicle is communicated to be presented in an in-vehicle infotainment system of the second vehicle.

10. A server computing system, comprising:
memory to store information from sensor data captured by a first mobile compute device in a first vehicle at a roadway location; and
processing circuitry configured to:
determine, based on the information from the sensor data, an occurrence of a traffic event that interrupts traffic flow at the roadway location;
identify a second vehicle impacted by the traffic event, based on a second mobile compute device in the second vehicle that is associated with a planned route that includes the roadway location; and
communicate route update data to the second mobile compute device, the route update data to change the planned route of the second vehicle to avoid the traffic event at the roadway location.

11. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein operations to communicate the route update data are performed during navigation of the second vehicle.

12. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein the route update data causes the second vehicle to change from the planned route to an alternate route that does not include the traffic event.

13. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein the traffic event that interrupts the traffic flow at the roadway location corresponds to one or more of: roadway construction, a roadway obstruction, a roadway hazard, a traffic accident, or traffic congestion.

14. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein the sensor data is capable of providing an indicator of the traffic flow at the roadway location as encountered by the first vehicle.

15. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein the sensor data is generated from motion sensors of the first mobile compute device.

16. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein the first mobile compute device and the second mobile compute device are mobile phones.

17. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein operations to determine the occurrence of the traffic event and identify the second vehicle impacted by the traffic event are performed by a cloud service operating at the server computing system.

18. The server computing system of claim 10 , wherein the planned route of the second vehicle is communicated to be presented in an in-vehicle infotainment system of the second vehicle.

19. An apparatus, comprising:
means for obtaining information from sensor data captured by a first mobile compute device in a first vehicle at a roadway location;
means for determining, based on the information from the sensor data, an occurrence of a traffic event that interrupts traffic flow at the roadway location;
means for identifying a second vehicle impacted by the traffic event, based on a second mobile compute device in the second vehicle that is associated with a planned route that includes the roadway location; and
means for communicating route update data to the second mobile compute device, the route update data to change the planned route of the second vehicle to avoid the traffic event at the roadway location.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 , further comprising:
means for operating a cloud service to communicate with the second mobile compute device.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Ould-Ahmed-Vall Elmoustapha
• Cheruvu Sunil K

Classifications

• G08G1/096844

  where the complete route is dynamically recomputed based on new data · CPC title

• G01C21/3415 Primary

  Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents · CPC title

• G01C21/3691

  Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions (arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09) · CPC title

• 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