Peer-to-peer vehicle communicator

• US 9,068,854 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2012
• Issued: 06/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Herger, Lorraine M., Keller, Neal M., McCarthy, Matthew A., Pickover, Clifford A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Calvin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jos, Basil T
• Application Number:
  US13/423,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20130245855A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,200 Days
• Field of Search: 701/425
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• 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

Abstract

A system and method for communicating information between vehicle operators. The method includes receiving a request from a send vehicle operator to communicate a vehicle information message from a send vehicle. The method also includes generating the vehicle information message at the send vehicle. The method further includes sending the vehicle information message from the send vehicle to a receive vehicle.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for communicating information between vehicle operators, the method comprising:

generating, by a computer processor at a send vehicle, a vehicle information message, the vehicle information message includes a stalking record, the stalking record includes an identification of an order of protection for an owner of the receive vehicle;

sending the vehicle information message from the send vehicle to a receive vehicle; and

responsive to receiving the vehicle information message from the send vehicle within a threshold radius, initiating a protective action at the receive vehicle, the protective action includes an identification of an alternate driving route.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the vehicle information message at the receive vehicle.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising presenting the vehicle information message to a receive vehicle operator only if a number of vehicle information messages received exceeds a vehicle information message threshold.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

responsive to receiving the vehicle information message at the receive vehicle, generating a response message at the receive vehicle;

sending the response message from the receive vehicle to the send vehicle; and

receiving the response message at the send vehicle.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle information message includes a danger summary record, the danger summary record includes a data record of at least one vehicle hazard at the receive vehicle.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle information message includes a buyer summary record, the buyer summary record includes an identification of a maximum price that an owner of the receive vehicle is willing to pay to purchase a vehicle.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle information message includes a seller summary record, the seller summary record includes an identification of an asking price for the send vehicle.

8. A system for communicating information between vehicle operators, the system comprising a first computer processor configured to:

generate a vehicle information message at the send vehicle, the vehicle information message includes a stalking record, the stalking record includes an identification of an order of protection for an owner of the receive vehicle;

send the vehicle information message from the send vehicle to a receive vehicle; and

responsive to receiving the vehicle information message from the send vehicle within a threshold radius, initiate a protective action at the receive vehicle, the protective action includes an identification of an alternate driving route.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising a second computer processor configured to receive the vehicle information message at the receive vehicle.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the second computer processor is configured to present the vehicle information message to a receive vehicle operator only if a number of vehicle information messages received exceeds a vehicle information message threshold.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

wherein the second computer processor is configured to, responsive to receiving the vehicle information message at the receive vehicle, generate a response message at the receive vehicle, and send the response message from the receive vehicle to the send vehicle; and

wherein the first computer processor is configured to receive the response message at the send vehicle.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the vehicle information message includes a danger summary record, the danger summary record includes a data record of at least one vehicle hazard at the receive vehicle.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the vehicle information message includes a buyer summary record, the buyer summary record includes an identification of a maximum price that an owner of the receive vehicle is willing to pay to purchase a vehicle.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the vehicle information message includes a seller summary record, the seller summary record includes an identification of an asking price for the send vehicle.

15. A computer program product for communicating information between vehicle operators, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to:

generate a vehicle information message at the send vehicle, wherein the vehicle information message includes a stalking record, the stalking record includes an identification of an order of protection for an owner of the receive vehicle;

send the vehicle information message from the send vehicle to a receive vehicle; and

responsive to receiving the vehicle information message from the send vehicle within a threshold radius, initiate a protective action at the receive vehicle, the protective action includes an identification of an alternate driving route.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising computer readable program code configured to receive the vehicle information message at the receive vehicle.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising computer readable program code configured to present the vehicle information message to a receive vehicle operator only if a number of vehicle information messages received exceeds a vehicle information message threshold.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising computer readable program code configured to:

responsive to receiving the vehicle information message in the receive vehicle, generate a response message at the receive vehicle;

send the response message from the receive vehicle to the send vehicle; and

receive the response message at the send vehicle.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the vehicle information message includes a danger summary record, the danger summary record includes a data record of at least one vehicle hazard at the receive vehicle.