US 11,971,495 B2
Method for a transportation vehicle of a transportation vehicle fleet for transmitting data to a data processing system, method for a data processing system for transmitting data of a transportation vehicle fleet to the data processing system, and transportation vehicle
Stephan Max, Gifhorn (DE); and Peter Baumann, Braunschweig (DE)
Assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, (DE)
Filed by VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/499,110.
Application 17/499,110 is a continuation of application No. 16/481,857, granted, now 11,150,319, previously published as PCT/EP2018/051302, filed on Jan. 19, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2017 201 514.4 (DE), filed on Jan. 31, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0028276 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01S 5/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 5/0027 (2013.01) [G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/0133 (2013.01); G08G 1/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for implementation on a data processing system to orchestrate transmission of data from a transportation vehicle fleet to the data processing system remote from the transportation vehicle fleet, the transportation vehicle fleet including a plurality of remote transportation vehicles, the method comprising:
the data processing system sending a first message to at least two transportation vehicles of the transportation vehicle fleet, wherein the first message includes measurement order information indicating data to be measured and transmitted by the transportation vehicle and information indicating a predetermined transmission probability that is specific to transportation vehicles receiving the first message, wherein the predetermined transmission probability information provides an indication of a sample size within the plurality of transportation vehicles that indicates a probability that the transportation vehicle must participate in a data upload to the data processing system, wherein the predetermined transmission probability is used by each transportation vehicle that receives the first message to automatically determine whether to participate in the data upload to the data processing system; and
the data processing system receiving the data indicated in the measurement order information of the first message, wherein the received data has been transmitted from at least one transportation vehicle of the transportation vehicle fleet, wherein the automatic determination by the at least one transportation vehicle whether to transmit the data to the data processing system is based both on the predetermined transmission probability information transmitted by the data processing system in the first message and a state included in a sequence of random states generated from a set of predetermined states via a random generator,
wherein the automatic determination performed by the transportation vehicle of whether to transmit the data to the data processing system indicates that the data to be transmitted to the data processing system must be transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system to comply with the predetermined transmission probability,
wherein the first message further comprises repetition information that dictates whether there is a need to re-determine whether to perform data transmission from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system again,
wherein the transportation vehicle determines whether to determine only once or several times whether to send data to the data processing system based on analysis of the repetition information dictated by the data processing system in the first message,
wherein the determinations and re-determinations are chronologically successive determinations, and
wherein the repetition information indicates a period between successive determinations defined by the distance traveled by the transportation vehicle between successive determinations.