Vehicle data sharing with interested parties

• US 10,535,207 B1
• Filed: 03/29/2019
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Goluguri, Jaya Bharath R., Salles, Felipe G., Risberg, Christopher J., Batie, Joshua C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Hongmin
• Application Number:
  US16/370,278
• Time in Patent Office: 291 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

An example operation may include providing a value to a transport based on sensor data associated the transport.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a server configured to;

assign sensor data from a transport to one or more categories based on sensor data share permissions stored in a profile associated with a transport;

send the sensor data to one or more recipients based on the one or more categories; and

provide a value to the transport by the one or more recipients based on the sensor data via a smart contract which references the sensor data sent to the one or more recipients, the value being provided to the transport, a date associated with the sent sensor data, and a date associated with the provided value.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more recipients registered to receive the sensor data are identified based on the one or more categories which are identified in corresponding recipient profiles of the one or more recipients.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of different sensor data sets collected from a plurality of different sensor types and the one or more computing devices associated with the transport.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the plurality of different sensor data sets are assigned to different ones of the one or more categories, and wherein the one or more recipients comprise a plurality of different recipients with corresponding different ones of the categories assigned to their respective recipient profiles.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein sensor content of the sensor data comprises one or more of a radio station selection, recorded audio, mobile device usage within the transport, telephone calls conducted inside the transport, browser history of at least one computing device, purchases conducted via the at least one computing device inside the transport, movement of the transport, collision of the transport, acceleration of the transport, temperature of the transport, location of the transport, and detected traffic near the transport.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein a type of sensor used related to the sensor data comprises movement sensors, sonar sensors, accelerometers, temperature sensors, speed sensors, sound sensors, collision sensors, tire pressure sensors, location determination sensors, camera sensors, activity sensors, and biometric sensors.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a distributed ledger stored in memory; and

wherein the smart contract stored in the distributed ledger is invoked responsive to the sensor data being identified as being associated with the sensor data shared permissions, wherein the smart contract comprises at least a portion of the transport profile, the recipient profiles, a type of sensor data associated with recipient profiles, and the value assigned to the transport based on the sensor data being shared.

8. A method, comprising:

assigning sensor data from a transport to one or more categories based on sensor data share permissions stored in a profile associated with a transport;

sending the sensor data to one or more recipients based on the one or more categories; and

providing a value to the transport by the one or more recipients based on the sensor data via a smart contract which references the sensor data sent to the one or more recipients, the value being provided to the transport, a date associated with the sent sensor data, and a date associated with the provided value.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the one or more recipients registered to receive the sensor data are identified based on the one or more categories which are identified in corresponding recipient profiles of the one or more recipients.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of different sensor data sets collected from a plurality of different sensor types and one or more computing devices associated with the transport.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the plurality of different sensor data sets are assigned to different ones of the one or more categories, and wherein the one or more recipients comprise a plurality of different recipients with corresponding different ones of the categories assigned to their respective recipient profiles.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein sensor content of the sensor data comprises one or more of a radio station selection, recorded audio, mobile device usage within the transport, telephone calls conducted inside the transport, browser history of at least one computing device, purchases conducted via the at least one computing device inside the transport, movement of the transport, collision of the transport, acceleration of the transport, temperature of the transport, location of the transport, and detected traffic near the transport.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein a type of sensor used related to the sensor data comprises movement sensors, sonar sensors, accelerometers, temperature sensors, speed sensors, sound sensors, collision sensors, tire pressure sensors, location determination sensors, camera sensors, activity sensors, and biometric sensors.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

storing a smart contract in a distributed ledger; and

invoking the smart contract responsive to the sensor data being identified as being associated with the sensor data shared permissions, wherein the smart contract comprises at least a portion of the transport profile, the recipient profiles, a type of sensor data associated with recipient profiles, and the value assigned to the transport based on the sensor data being shared.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, that when read by a processor, cause the processor to perform:

assigning sensor data from a transport to one or more categories based on sensor data share permissions stored in a profile associated with a transport;

sending the sensor data to one or more recipients based on the one or more categories; and

providing a value to the transport by the one or more recipients based on the sensor data via a smart contract which references the sensor data sent to the one or more recipients, the value being provided to the transport, a date associated with the sent sensor data, and a date associated with the provided value.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more recipients registered to receive the sensor data are identified based on the one or more categories which are identified in corresponding recipient profiles of the one or more recipients.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of different sensor data sets collected from a plurality of different sensor types and one or more computing devices associated with the transport.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the plurality of different sensor data sets are assigned to different ones of the one or more categories, and wherein the one or more recipients comprise a plurality of different recipients with corresponding different ones of the categories assigned to their respective recipient profiles.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein sensor content of the sensor data comprises one or more of a radio station selection, recorded audio, mobile device usage within the transport, telephone calls conducted inside the transport, browser history of at least one computing device, purchases conducted via the at least one computing device inside the transport, movement of the transport, collision of the transport, acceleration of the transport, temperature of the transport, location of the transport, and detected traffic near the transport.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein a type of sensor used related to the sensor data comprises movement sensors, sonar sensors, accelerometers, temperature sensors, speed sensors, sound sensors, collision sensors, tire pressure sensors, location determination sensors, camera sensors, activity sensors, and biometric sensors.