Technologies for route navigation sharing in a community cloud

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9791282-B2
Application number	US-201414499154-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2014
Priority date	Sep 27, 2014
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

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 mobile navigation device of a vehicle for sharing route navigation data, the mobile navigation device comprising:
a sensor to generate sensor data associated with a current route of the vehicle, wherein at least a segment of the current route of the vehicle corresponds to one or more segments of an existing route of a remote vehicle;
a route monitoring module to determine, based on the generated sensor data, an occurrence of a reference traffic event within the segment of the current route of the vehicle; and
a route determination module to selectively transmit route update data directly to a remote mobile navigation device of the remote vehicle in response to a determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route, wherein the remote mobile navigation device is different from the mobile navigation device.

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

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

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

5. The mobile navigation device of claim 1 , wherein to generate the sensor data associated with the current route of the vehicle comprises to at least one of generate location data indicative of a current location of the vehicle or generate traffic data indicative of a current traffic condition at the current location of the vehicle.

6. The mobile navigation device of claim 5 , wherein to generate the traffic data indicative of the current traffic condition comprises to generate traffic data indicative of a traffic accident at the current location of the vehicle based on an analysis of one or more images captured at the current location of the vehicle.

7. The mobile navigation device of claim 1 , wherein the route determination module is further to (i) receive, from the remote mobile navigation device of the remote vehicle, a request for route data associated with a future route of the remote vehicle and (ii) transmit, to the remote mobile navigation device, the requested route data based on historical sensor data generated by the mobile navigation device for a past route of the vehicle.

8. The mobile navigation device of claim 1 , wherein the mobile navigation device of the vehicle and the remote mobile navigation device are each member compute devices of a community cloud;
wherein to transmit the route update data to the remote mobile navigation device comprises to transmit the route update data to the remote mobile navigation device of the community cloud; and further comprising:
a privacy management module to prevent transmission of the route update data to member compute devices of a public cloud, wherein the public cloud is different from the community cloud.

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

10. The one or more machine-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the mobile navigation device of the vehicle to generate, in response to a determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route, an alternate route for the remote vehicle to avoid the one or more segments of the existing route of the remote vehicle that correspond to the segment of the current route; and
wherein to transmit the route update data comprises to transmit an alternate route to the remote mobile navigation device of the remote vehicle.

11. The one or more machine-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the mobile navigation device of the vehicle to:
determine, in response to a determination of the occurrence of the reference traffic event within the segment of the current route, an alternate route of a plurality of alternate routes for the remote vehicle to avoid the one or more segments of the existing route of the remote vehicle that correspond to the segment of the current route, wherein each alternate route is associated with a route identifier that identifies each alternate route within the plurality of alternate routes;
determine the route identifier associated with the alternate route determined for the remote vehicle; and
wherein to transmit the route update data comprises to transmit, to the remote mobile navigation device of the remote vehicle, the route identifier associated with the alternate route determined for the remote vehicle.

12. The one or more machine-readable media of claim 9 , wherein to generate the sensor data associated with the current route of the vehicle comprises to at least one of generate location data indicative of a current location of the vehicle or generate traffic data indicative of a current traffic condition at the current location of the vehicle.

13. The one or more machine-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the mobile navigation device of the vehicle to:
receive, from the re

Assignees

• Ould-Ahmed-Vall Elmoustapha
• Cheruvu Sunil K
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Ould-Ahmed-Vall Elmoustapha
• Cheruvu Sunil K

Classifications

• 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

• G08G1/096844

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

• G08G1/096827

  where the route is computed onboard · CPC title

• G08G1/0141

  for traffic information dissemination · CPC title