US 12,462,620 B2
Vehicle server system
Masato Mizoguchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/169,486.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-036471 (JP), filed on Mar. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0290190 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/02 (2006.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01)
CPC G07C 5/008 (2013.01) [G07C 5/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle server system comprising:
vehicles each of which is chargeable and comprises at least an external communication apparatus, and a control apparatus configured to execute calculation processing; and
a server apparatus comprising:
a server communicator configured to communicate with the external communication apparatus of each vehicle; and
a server processor communicably coupled to the server communicator and configured to execute at least traveling control processing to control the vehicles on a basis of data transmitted and received by the server communicator, wherein
the server communicator is configured to receive vehicle state data from a first vehicle of the vehicles,
the server processor is configured to:
determine whether the first vehicle is charging and whether a local time at a location of the first vehicle corresponds to a predetermined nighttime period; and
upon determining that the first vehicle is charging and the time corresponds to the nighttime period, select a partial task of the traveling control processing, the partial task being a process that is originally executable by the server processor and offloaded to the first vehicle to reduce a processing load on the server processor; and
transmit a request to the first vehicle to execute the partial task,
the control apparatus of the first vehicle is configured to perform the partial task of the traveling control processing,
the server processor is configured to, upon receiving a result of performing the partial task from the first vehicle, incorporate the result into the traveling control processing to perform the traveling control processing for one or more vehicles traveling a road segment,
the server processor is further configured to:
upon determining that the first vehicle is charging and the time corresponds to the nighttime period, select a calculation processing including data mining; and
transmit a request to the first vehicle to execute the calculation processing including the data mining, and
the control apparatus of the first vehicle is configured to:
determine whether a charging voltage of a charging apparatus coupled to the control apparatus is at or above a threshold of the charging voltage; and
perform, in response to determining that the charging voltage of the charging apparatus is at or above the threshold of the charging voltage, the calculation processing including the data mining.