Remote vehicle connection status

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9716762-B2
Application number	US-201414230617-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2014
Priority date	Mar 31, 2014
Publication date	Jul 25, 2017
Grant date	Jul 25, 2017

Abstract

A message broker may initialize, responsive to a connection notification published via vehicle connection to a vehicle-associated topic tree topic to which a service delivery network is subscribed, a lost-connection notification to be published to the topic by the broker upon broker identification of the connection as lost, and when a periodic notification over the connection to the message broker is missed, publish the lost-connection notification to the vehicle-associated topic. A service delivery may receive a message publish request for a vehicle topic via a message broker to which the service delivery network and vehicle subscribe; and send a wakeup message to the vehicle out-of-band from the message broker to request the vehicle to reconnect to the message broker when a type of the message requires the vehicle to be connected to publish the message and the vehicle is disconnected.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a message broker computing device including one or more hardware processors, configured to
initialize, responsive to a connection notification published via a vehicle connection to a vehicle-associated topic tree topic to which a service delivery network is subscribed, a lost-connection notification to be published to the topic by the broker upon broker identification of the connection as lost, and
when a periodic notification over the connection to the message broker is missed, publish the lost-connection notification to the vehicle-associated topic.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the message broker is further configured to uninitialize the lost-connection notification upon receipt of a graceful disconnection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the service delivery network is configured to maintain an indication of connection status of the vehicle according to notifications published to the vehicle-associated topic.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to:
update the indication of connection status of the vehicle to a connected status, responsive to receipt of the connection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic;
update the indication of connection status of the vehicle to a lost-connection status, responsive to receipt of the lost-connection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic; and
update the indication of connection status of the vehicle to a graceful disconnection status, responsive to receipt of a graceful disconnection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to:
identify, based on a message type to be published to the topic tree, whether the message requires the vehicle to have the connected status as a condition of the message being published; and
when the message type requires the vehicle to be connected for publishing, verify using the indication of connection status of the vehicle that the vehicle is connected before publishing the message.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to, when the message type requires the vehicle to be connected and the indication of connection status of the vehicle indicates that the vehicle is disconnected, send a wakeup message to the vehicle out-of-band from the message broker to request the vehicle to reconnect to the message broker.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the wakeup message is sent to the vehicle over short message service (SMS).

8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a vehicle controller of the vehicle configured to publish the connection notification to the vehicle-associated topic tree topic of a message broker to which a service delivery network is subscribed to cause the lost-connection notification to be set up for publishing upon condition that the periodic notification from the vehicle controller to the message broker is missed.

9. A system comprising:
a service delivery network computing device including one or more hardware processors, configured to:
receive, from a message broker, a message publish request for a vehicle topic to which a vehicle is subscribed; and
responsive to the request, send a wakeup message to the vehicle, out-of-band from the message broker, to request the vehicle to reconnect to the message broker when a type of the message requires the vehicle to be connected for message publishing and the vehicle is disconnected.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to publish the message to the vehicle topic without sending the wakeup message when the type of the message does not require the vehicle to be connected to the message broker for message publishing.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to determine that the type of the message requires the vehicle to be connected to the message broker when the message is a time-sensitive command.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to receive the message publish request responsive to a request from a mobile device associated with the vehicle to perform the time-sensitive command.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the wakeup message is sent to the vehicle over short message service (SMS).

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to determine that the type of the message does not require the vehicle to be connected to the message broker when the message is a non-time-sensitive command.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to maintain an indication of connection status of the vehicle according to notifications published to a vehicle-associated topic.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the service delivery network is further configured to:
update the indication of connection status of the vehicle to a connected status, responsive to receipt of a connection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic;
update the indication of connection status of the vehicle to a lost-connection status, responsive to receipt of a lost-connection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic; and
update the indication of connection status of the vehicle to a graceful disconnection status, responsive to receipt of a graceful disconnection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic.

17. The system of claim 16 , further comprising a message broker configured to:
initialize, responsive to a connection notification published via vehicle connection to a vehicle-associated topic tree topic to which a service delivery network is subscribed, the lost-connection notification to be published to the topic by the broker upon broker identification of the connection as lost, and
when a periodic notification over the connection to the message broker is missed, publish the lost-connection notification to the vehicle-associated topic.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the message broker is further configured to uninitialize the lost-connection notification upon receipt of the graceful disconnection notification published to the vehicle-associated topic.

19. A method comprising:
receiving, by a service delivery network, a message publish request for a vehicle topic via a message broker to which the service delivery network and vehicle subscribe; and
sending a wakeup message to the vehicle out-of-band from the message broker to request the vehicle to reconnect to the message broker when a type of the message requires the vehicle to be connected to publish the message and the vehicle is disconnected.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:
initializing, by the message broker, responsive to a connection notification published via vehicle connection to a vehicle-associated topic tree topic to which a service delivery network is subscribed, a lost-connection notification to be published to the topic by the broker upon broker identification of the connection as lost, and
when a periodic notification over the connection to the message broker is missed, publishing the lost-connection notification to the vehicle-associated topic.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc
• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Petersen Brian
• Pandya Ritesh
• Rork Joseph Paul
• Yalavarty Praveen

Classifications

• H04L67/142 Primary

  Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms · CPC title

• H04L67/2809

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/16

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• G06Q10/02

  Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events · CPC title