Cloud computing system, vehicle cloud processing device and methods for use therewith

• US 9,146,603 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2012
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• 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): DONAGHUE, LARRY D
• Application Number:
  US13/466,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20130304863A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 cloud computing system comprising:

a network interface for interfacing with a wide area network;

at least one wireless transceiver for engaging in bidirectional communication with a plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices within a corresponding plurality of vehicles in at least one vehicle aggregation location, wherein the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices includes a plurality of synthesis devices; and

a network control device, coupled to the at least one wireless transceiver and the network interface, that receives requests for at least one cloud computing service via the wide area network and that facilitates the at least one cloud computing service via the bidirectional communication with the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices, wherein the requests for the at least one cloud computing service include a request to synthesize a plurality of components and wherein the network control device fulfills the requests for the at least one cloud computing service based on an allocation of tasks to synthesize the plurality of components among the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices.

2. The cloud computing system of claim 1 further comprising a wireless powering system that emits electromagnetic energy and wherein at least one of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices includes a power system that harvests a portion of the electromagnetic energy to power the at least one of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices.

3. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the network control device associates a first vehicle of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices after the first vehicle of the corresponding plurality of vehicles enters the at least one vehicle aggregation location and further wherein the network control device disassociates the first vehicle of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices after the first vehicle of the corresponding plurality of vehicles leaves the at least one vehicle aggregation location.

4. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the network control device receives system identification data from the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices that identifies at least one of:

a processing power associated with corresponding ones of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices, and a data capacity associated with the corresponding ones of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices or wherein the network control device facilitates the at least one cloud computing service by allocating a plurality of computational tasks associated with the at least one cloud computing service to selected ones of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices, based on the system identification data.

5. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the requests for at least one cloud computing service include corresponding time constraints and wherein the network control device generates a segmentation of the requests for at least one cloud computing service into a plurality of computational tasks, based on a corresponding time constraints and facilitates the at least one cloud computing service by allocating the plurality of computational tasks to selected ones of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices.

6. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the requests for at least one cloud computing service include corresponding data constraints and wherein the network control device generates a segmentation of the requests for at least one cloud computing service into a plurality of computational tasks, based on a corresponding data constraints and facilitates the at least one cloud computing service to fulfill the requests by allocating the plurality of computational tasks to selected ones of the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices.

7. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the at least one vehicle aggregation location includes a plurality of vehicle aggregation locations and wherein the network control device facilitates the at least one cloud computing service to fulfill the requests by allocating the requests over the plurality of vehicle aggregation locations.

8. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the at least one vehicle aggregation location includes a plurality of vehicle aggregation locations in a plurality of associated time zones and wherein the network control device provides the at least one cloud computing service by allocating the requests over the plurality of vehicle aggregation locations, based on the plurality of associated time zones.

9. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the at least one vehicle aggregation location includes a plurality of vehicle aggregation locations and wherein the network control device stores registry data associated with each of the plurality of the vehicle aggregation locations and provides the at least one cloud computing service to fulfill the requests by allocating the requests over the plurality of vehicle aggregation locations, based on the registry data.

10. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the at least one cloud computing service includes at least one of:

software as a service, platform as a service, or infrastructure as a service.

11. The cloud computing system of claim 1 wherein the network control device fulfills the requests for the at least one cloud computing service based on formation of at least one of:

a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, a community cloud, a private cloud, or an internal cloud.

12. A vehicle cloud processing device for use in a vehicle, the vehicle cloud processing device comprising:

a wireless transceiver at a vehicle aggregation location for engaging in communication with a network control device, the communication including system identification data that indicates at least one of, computational capacity of the vehicle cloud processing device or data capacity of the vehicle cloud processing device;

a memory for storing a vehicle cloud processing device application; and

a processor, coupled to the wireless transceiver and the memory, the processor configurable to execute the vehicle cloud processing device application to;

receive a cloud computational task from the network control device via the wireless transceiver that is generated by the network control device based on the system identification data, wherein the cloud computational task includes a request to synthesize a component;

generate cloud computational task results, based on the cloud computational task; and

provide cloud computational task results to the network control device via the wireless transceiver; and

a synthesis device, coupled to the processor, to synthesize the component in response to the request to synthesize the component, wherein the synthesis devices includes at least one of;

a three-dimensional fabrication device or a biosynthesis device.

13. The vehicle cloud processing device of claim 12 further comprising:

a power system, coupled to the wireless transceiver, the memory and the processor, wherein the power system is coupled to a vehicle battery of the vehicle.

14. The vehicle cloud processing device of claim 12 further comprising:

a power system, coupled to the wireless transceiver, the memory and the processor, wherein the power system is coupled to a vehicle electrical system of the vehicle to charge the power system when the vehicle is in operation, and that is decoupled from a vehicle battery of the vehicle when the vehicle is not in operation.

15. The vehicle cloud processing device of claim 12 further comprising:

a power system, coupled to the wireless transceiver, the memory and the processor, wherein the power system is decoupled from a vehicle battery of the vehicle.

16. The vehicle cloud processing device of claim 12 further comprising:

a power system, coupled to the wireless transceiver, the memory and the processor, wherein the power system harvests electromagnetic energy from a wireless power system at the vehicle aggregation location.

17. The vehicle cloud processing device of claim 12 further comprising:

a cooling system, coupled to the processor, for cooling the processor.

18. A method comprising:

receiving a request for a cloud computing service via a network interface wherein the request for the cloud computing service includes a request to synthesize a plurality of components;

segmenting, via a network control device, the request into a plurality of computational tasks based on at least one of;

a time constraint associated with the request or a data constraint associated with the request;

allocating, via the network control device, the plurality of computational tasks to a plurality of vehicle cloud computing devices in at least one vehicle aggregation location based on at least one of;

the time constraint associated with the request or the data constraint associated with the request wherein the plurality of vehicle cloud computing devices includes a plurality of synthesis devices; and

managing, via the network control device, performance of the plurality of computational tasks allocated to the plurality of vehicle cloud computing devices to fulfill the request, wherein the network control device fulfills the requests for the cloud computing service to synthesize the plurality of components among the plurality of vehicle cloud computing devices.