US 12,279,106 B2
Internet of vehicles communication method, distribution module, center server, and regional server
Kai Zhou, Shenzhen (CN); and Yan Liu, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guizhou (CN)
Filed by Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd., Guizhou (CN)
Filed on May 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/334,087.
Application 17/334,087 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2019/108467, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201811458865.7 (CN), filed on Nov. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0289415 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 4/46 (2018.02) [H04W 4/44 (2018.02); H04W 36/322 (2023.05); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.05)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by a first distribution device, wherein the method comprises:
receiving reported data of a vehicle, wherein the reported data comprises first information about a first location of the vehicle, a driving speed of the vehicle, and a driving track of the vehicle, wherein the first location is in a second regional server in a first cluster;
identifying the second regional server based on the first information;
sending the reported data to the second regional server;
sending the reported data to a first regional server in the first cluster to instruct the first regional server to predict, according to the first information about the first location of the vehicle, second information about a second location of the vehicle, wherein the first cluster comprises the first distribution device and the first regional server;
receiving, from the first regional server, the second information about the second location of the vehicle based on the first location and at which the vehicle is to arrive;
identifying that the second location is in a first service region of a third regional server of a second cluster;
obtaining, based on the second location, an identifier or an address of a second distribution device that distributes vehicle data to the third regional server in the second cluster, wherein the second cluster comprises the second distribution device and the third regional server; and
sending the identifier or the address to the vehicle to communicate with the second distribution device.