US 11,962,472 B2
Systems and methods to form remote vehicular micro clouds
Seyhan Ucar, Mountain View, CA (US); Takamasa Higuchi, Mountain View, CA (US); Onur Altintas, Mountain View, CA (US); and Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US)
Filed by TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,495.
Prior Publication US 2024/0097984 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 1/01 (2006.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/12 (2013.01) [G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for remote vehicular micro cloud formation, the method comprising:
receiving a request to form a vehicular micro cloud from a client device, the request comprising an identification of a target geographic area and information defining a task to be executed by the vehicular micro cloud in the target geographic area, wherein the client device is remote from the target geographic;
responsive to receiving the request to form the vehicular micro cloud from the client device, communicating with a plurality of vehicles within the target geographic area to collectively form a vehicular micro cloud at the target geographic area;
receiving resource data from the plurality of vehicles, the resource data comprising detection results of an environment of the target geographic area based on sensor sets of the plurality of vehicles; and
transmitting the resource data to the client device.