Systems and Methods for Inter-Application Communication in a Network of Moving Things

• US 20170118599A1
• Filed: 09/27/2016
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veniam Inc.
• Original Assignee: Veniam Inc.
• Inventors: Cabral, Henrique
• Granted Patent: US 9,924,327 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing inter-application communication in a network of moving things. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide configurable systems and methods for providing inter-application communication in a network of moving things, for example in which clients may register for participation, subscribe to topics, publish different types of messages, etc.

Claims

1. A mobile access point (MAP) of a vehicle communication network, the MAP comprising:

at least one wireless transceiver operable to communicate with a client device and operable to communicate with other access points of the vehicle communication network; and

at least one module operable to, at least;

receive a first message from a first module of the MAP, the first message comprising first information of a first type of information regarding the operational state of the MAP;

receive a second message from a second module, independent of the first module, subscribing to the first type of information;

and in response to at least the received first and second messages, communicate the received first information to the second module.

2. The mobile access point (MAP) of claim 1, wherein the first type of information comprises information of a location of the MAP.

3. The mobile access point (MAP) of claim 1, wherein the first type of information comprises information identifying one or more other access points to which the MAP is communicatively connected and/or that are within communication range of the MAP.

4. The mobile access point (MAP) of claim 1, wherein the first type of information comprises information identifying an operational state of a second mobile access point.

5. The mobile access point (MAP) of claim 1, wherein the second module is a module of a second access point of the vehicle communication network.

6. The mobile access point (MAP) of claim 5, wherein the second access point is a mobile access point.

7. The mobile access point (MAP) of claim 1, wherein the at least one module is operable to receive the second message after the first message.

8. An access point (AP) of a vehicle communication network, the access point comprising:

at least one wireless transceiver operable to communicate with other access points of the vehicle communication network; and

at least one module operable to, at least;

receive a first message from a first module of the AP;

in response to at least the received first message, creating a first information topic to which other modules may subscribe, the first information topic comprising a first type of information regarding an operational state of the AP;

receive a second message from a second module, independent of the first module;

in response to at least the received second message, subscribe the second module to the first information topic;

receive a third message from the first module of the AP, the third message comprising first information of the first type of information;

in response to at least the received third message, communicate the first information to the second module.

9. The access point (AP) of claim 8, wherein the AP is a mobile access point.

10. The access point (AP) of claim 8, wherein the at least one module is operable to, in response to at least the received third message, store the first information for communication to a future subscriber.

11. The access point (AP) of claim 10, wherein the at least one module is operable to store the first information for communication to a future subscriber by, at least in part, operating to replace other information of the first type of information with the first information.

12. The access point (AP) of claim 8, wherein the at least one module is operable to:

receive a fourth message from the first module of the AP; and

in response to at least the received fourth message, remove the first information topic.

13. The access point (AP) of claim 8, wherein the at least one module is operable to:

receive a fourth message from the second module; and

in response to at least the received fourth message, unsubscribe the second module from the first information topic.

14. The access point (AP) of claim 8, wherein the at least one module is operable to:

receive the third message prior to the second message; and

communicate the first information to the second module in response to at least the received third message and the received second message.

15. The access point (AP) of claim 8, wherein the first type of information comprises information of a location of the AP and/or information identifying one or more other access points.

16. The access point (AP) of claim 8, wherein the second module is a module of a second access point of the vehicle communication network.

17. The access point (AP) of claim 16, wherein the second access point is a mobile access point.

18. A node of a vehicle communication network, the node comprising:

at least one transceiver operable to communicate with other nodes of the vehicle communication network;

at least one module operable to, at least;

receive a first message from a first module of a first access point of the vehicle communication network, the first message comprising first information of a first type of information regarding the operational state of the first access point;

receive a second message from a second module of a second access point of the vehicle communication network subscribing to the first type of information; and

in response to at least the received first and second messages, communicate the received first information to the second module.

19. The vehicle communication network node of claim 18, wherein at least one of the first and second access points is a mobile access point.

20. The vehicle communication network node of claim 18, wherein the first type of information comprises information of the location of the first access point.

21. The vehicle communication network node of claim 18, wherein the first type of information comprises information identifying one or more access points to which the first access point is communicatively connected and/or that are within communication range of the first access point.

22. The vehicle communication network node of claim 18, wherein the second message is received after the first message.

23. The vehicle communication network node of claim 18, wherein the at least one transceiver is a wireless transceiver.