Management of mobile objects and service platform for mobile objects

• US 9,460,616 B1
• Filed: 12/16/2015
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Quartz Auto Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Miyahira, Tomohiro, Yamamoto, Gaku
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEUNG, CALVIN K
• Application Number:
  US14/970,596
• Time in Patent Office: 293 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0125 Traffic data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0967 Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 3/00 Traffic control systems for marine craft marking of navigational route B63B22/16, B63B51/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0043 Traffic management of multiple aircrafts from the ground G08G5/003 takes precedence; data processing specially designed for resource management, e.g. scheduling or allocating time, human or machine resources G06Q10/06
• 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: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

To provide different services and information in real time to each automobile or each driver with a high-quality driving assistance or automatic driving system that manages a plurality of mobile objects by communicating with the mobile objects, provided is a system including a mobile object server operable to receive information from each of a plurality of mobile objects within a geographic space and perform a process associated with each mobile object; and a registration server operable to register a first additional process that is to be performed in addition to a first basic process common to the plurality of mobile objects, in association with one mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects. Also provided are a method and program product.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a mobile object server operable to receive information from each of a plurality of mobile objects within a geographic space and perform a process associated with each mobile object; and

a registration server operable to register a first additional process that is to be performed in addition to a first basic process common to the plurality of mobile objects, in association with one mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects, wherein the mobile object server is operable to perform, as the first additional process, a process of providing notification that the one mobile object has become distanced from a predetermined location or region.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile object server is operable to perform processes set for mobile object agents associated respectively with the plurality of mobile objects, and

the registration server is operable to register a second additional process in association with one mobile object agent associated with the one mobile object.

3. The system according to claim 2, comprising:

a plurality of the mobile object servers, wherein

the plurality of mobile object servers are operable to perform processes set for respective mobile object agents associated with respective mobile objects that move in each of a plurality of regions obtained by dividing the geographic space, among the plurality of mobile objects.

4. The system according to claim 2, further comprising:

an event server operable to process events that occur within the geographic space, wherein

the mobile object server is operable to perform processes set for mobile object agents associated respectively with the plurality of mobile objects, using processing results of the events from the event server.

5. The system according to claim 2, wherein

the registration server is operable to register the second additional process and a call-up condition in association with the one mobile object agent, and

the mobile object server is operable to call up the second additional process in response to the call-up condition being satisfied during performance of the one mobile object agent.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein

the call-up condition has, as a necessary condition, change of a designated piece of feature information among a plurality of pieces of feature information relating to the one mobile object held by the one mobile object agent.

7. The system according to claim 2, wherein

the registration server is operable to register the second additional process in association with the one mobile object agent, in response to a request from an external server run by a service provider providing a service, and

the mobile object server is operable to call up a service process provided by the external server during performance of the second additional process registered in the one mobile object agent.

8. The system according to claim 2, wherein

the mobile object server is operable to perform processes set for a passenger agent in association with each passenger riding in the one mobile object.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein

the registration server is operable to register a third additional process to be performed in addition to a second basic process common to a plurality of passengers, in association with the passenger agent.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the registration server is operable to register a second additional process to be performed in addition to a second basic process common to a plurality of passengers, in association with the passenger agent;

and

the mobile object server is operable to perform a process of providing notification that someone other than a predetermined passenger is manipulating the one mobile object, as the second additional process.

11. A method comprising:

receiving information from each of a plurality of mobile objects within a geographic space;

performing a process associated with each mobile object; and

registering a first additional process that is to be performed in addition to a first basic process common to the plurality of mobile objects, in association with one mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects, wherein the mobile object is operable to perform, as the first additional process, a process of providing notification that the one mobile object has become distanced from a predetermined location or region.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein

the performing includes performing processes set for mobile object agents associated respectively with the plurality of mobile objects, and

the registering includes registering a second additional process in association with one mobile object agent associated with the one mobile object.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

processing events that occur within the geographic space, wherein

the performing includes performing processes set for mobile object agents associated respectively with the plurality of mobile objects, using processing results of the events from the event processing.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the registering includes registering the second additional process and a call-up condition in association with the one mobile object agent, and

the performing includes calling up the second additional process in response to the call-up condition being satisfied during execution of processes set for the one mobile object agent.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the registering includes registering the second additional process in association with the one mobile object agent, in response to a request from an external server run by a service provider providing a service, and

the performing includes calling up a service process provided by the external server during performance of the second additional process registered in the one mobile object agent.

16. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage devices, the program instructions comprising:

receiving information from each of a plurality of mobile objects within a geographic space;

performing a process associated with each mobile object; and

registering a first additional process that is to be performed in addition to a first basic process common to the plurality of mobile objects, in association with one mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects, wherein the mobile object is operable to perform, as the first additional process, a process of providing notification that the one mobile object has become distanced from a predetermined location or region.

17. The computer program product according to claim 16, wherein

the performing includes performing processes set for mobile object agents associated respectively with the plurality of mobile objects, and

the registering includes registering a second additional process in association with one mobile object agent associated with the one mobile object.

18. The computer program product according to claim 17, further comprising:

processing events that occur within the geographic space, wherein

the performing includes performing processes set for mobile object agents associated respectively with the plurality of mobile objects, using processing results of the events from the event processing.

19. The computer program product according to claim 16, wherein

the registering includes registering the second additional process in association with the one mobile object agent, in response to a request from an external server run by a service provider providing a service, and

the performing includes calling up a service process provided by the external server during performance of the second additional process registered in the one mobile object agent.