Vehicle cloud processing methods for fabricating medical objects at vehicle aggregation locations

• US 10,389,799 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2018
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: William Reber LLC
• Original Assignee: William Reber LLC
• Inventors: Reber, William L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lindsay, Bernard G
• Application Number:
  US16/183,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20190075157A1
• Time in Patent Office: 286 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 3/00 Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 50/02 for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/18 Numerical control [NC], i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form G05B19/418 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4099 Surface or curve machining, making 3D objects, e.g. desktop manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/49023 3-D printing, layer of powder, add drops of binder in layer, new powder
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5094 where the allocation takes into account power or heat criteria power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/22 Payment schemes or models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A cloud computing system includes a network interface for interfacing with a wide area network. At least one wireless transceiver engages in bidirectional communication with a plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices within a corresponding plurality of vehicles in at least one vehicle aggregation location. A network control device receives requests for at least one cloud computing service via the wide area network and facilitates the at least one cloud computing service via the bidirectional communication with the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

aggregating a plurality of cloud processing devices at a vehicle aggregation location, wherein the vehicle aggregation location is a healthcare facility, wherein the plurality of cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility includes a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) fabrication devices in a plurality of vehicles each having at least one of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices, wherein each of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices includes a biosynthesis device, bio-sequencing device, bioinformatics device or three-dimensional printer that produces an object or article in the plurality of vehicles, wherein the object or article is a medical product, and wherein an aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility is generated by direct input from a user interface device;

communicating via a network with the aggregated cloud processing devices and client devices for receiving requests for cloud tasks from the client devices wherein each request indicates the object or article to be produced by at least one of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices within the aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility; and

scheduling and managing performance of the cloud tasks via the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility based on the aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility, wherein the managing includes receiving cloud task results data from the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility indicating when the cloud tasks are completed, wherein the scheduling and managing performance of the cloud tasks via the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility includes allocating performance of the cloud tasks further based on a time criticality for each of the cloud tasks that indicates one of;

a high criticality or a low criticality, and wherein the high criticality is more time critical than the low criticality.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the medical product is a drug or vaccine.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing feedback to the client devices of completed cloud tasks.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility synthesizes a plurality of components of the object or article for assembly.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

facilitating delivery of the object or article.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

facilitating payment for the object or article.

7. A method comprising:

aggregating a plurality of cloud processing devices at a vehicle aggregation location, wherein the vehicle aggregation location is a healthcare facility, wherein the plurality of cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility includes a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) fabrication devices in a plurality of vehicles each having at least one of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices, wherein each of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices includes a biosynthesis device, bio-sequencing device, bioinformatics device or three-dimensional printer that produces an object or article in the plurality of vehicles, wherein the object or article is a medical product;

generating an aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility by direct input from a user interface device of at least one of the plurality of vehicles;

communicating via a network with the aggregated cloud processing devices and client devices for receiving requests for cloud tasks from the client devices wherein each request indicates the object or article to be produced by at least one of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices within the aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility; and

allocating performance of the cloud tasks via the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility based on the aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility and further based on a time criticality for each of the cloud tasks that indicates one of;

high criticality or low criticality, wherein the high criticality is more time critical than the low criticality; and

receiving cloud task results data from the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility indicating when the cloud tasks are completed.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the medical product is a drug or vaccine.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

providing feedback to the client devices of completed cloud tasks.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the plurality of cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility synthesizes a plurality of components of the object or article for assembly.

11. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

facilitating delivery of the object or article.

12. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

facilitating payment for the object or article.

13. A method comprising:

aggregating a plurality of cloud processing devices at a vehicle aggregation location, wherein the vehicle aggregation location is a healthcare facility, wherein the plurality of cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility includes a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) fabrication devices in a plurality of vehicles each having at least one of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices, wherein each of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices includes a biosynthesis device, bio-sequencing device, bioinformatics device or three-dimensional printer that produces an object or article in the plurality of vehicles, wherein the object or article is a medical product;

generating an aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility by direct input from a user interface device of one or more of the plurality of vehicles;

communicating via a network with the aggregated cloud processing devices and client devices for receiving requests for cloud tasks from the client devices wherein each request indicates the object or article to be produced by at least one of the plurality of 3D fabrication devices within the aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility;

scheduling and managing performance of the cloud tasks via the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility based on the aggregated time the plurality of cloud processing devices is aggregated at the healthcare facility, wherein the managing includes receiving cloud task results data from the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility indicating when the cloud tasks are completed and providing feedback to the client devices of completed cloud tasks, wherein the scheduling and managing performance of the cloud tasks via the aggregated cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility includes allocating performance of the cloud tasks further based on a time criticality for each of the cloud tasks that indicates one of;

a high criticality or a low criticality, and wherein the high criticality is more time critical than the low criticality;

facilitating delivery of the object or article; and

facilitating payment for the object or article.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the medical product is a drug or vaccine.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the plurality of cloud processing devices aggregated at the healthcare facility synthesizes a plurality of components of the object or article for assembly.