Management of moving objects

• US 9,584,977 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2015
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Gaku
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAN QUANG
• Application Number:
  US14/802,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20160373896A1
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• Field of Search: 701/117, 709/206
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/012 from other sources than vehicle or roadside beacons, e.g. mobile networks
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0125 Traffic data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/091 Traffic information broadcasting broadcasting communication H04H
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0968 Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle
• 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 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information

Abstract

A system comprising a plurality of mobile object servers respectively assigned to a plurality of regions in a geographic space, the plurality of mobile object servers including at least one mobile object server including a mobile object agent assigned to a moving object in the assigned region; and a plurality of event servers operable to manage events occurring in the geographic space; wherein each mobile object server is operable to transfer the mobile object agent to one of the plurality of mobile object servers assigned to a neighboring region in response to the moving object moving to the neighboring region, and execute the mobile object agent to collect information of events from at least one event server, and provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method performed by a system comprising a plurality of mobile object servers and a plurality of object servers that include at least one object server including an object agent containing information of the moving object, comprising:

assigning the plurality of mobile object servers respectively to a plurality of regions in a geographic space, the plurality of mobile object servers including at least one mobile object server including a mobile object agent assigned to a moving object in the assigned region;

receiving, by each mobile object server, information from the moving object in the region assigned to the mobile object server; and

generating, by each mobile object server, the mobile object agent for the moving object by obtaining information of the moving object from the object server that includes the object agent containing the information of the moving object if there is no mobile object server among the plurality of mobile object servers that is executing the mobile object agent.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of object servers including at least one object server including an object agent containing information of the moving object;

wherein each mobile object server is further operable to;

receive information from the moving object in the region assigned to the mobile object server; and

generate the mobile object agent for the moving object by obtaining information of the moving object from the object server that includes the object agent containing the information of the moving object if there is no mobile object server among the plurality of mobile object servers that is executing the mobile object agent.

3. The method of claim 2,

wherein the information contained in the object agent includes a mobile object server identifier that identifies one of the plurality of mobile object servers executing the mobile object agent corresponding to the object agent;

and

wherein the mobile object server is operable to;

receive information from the moving object in the region assigned to the mobile object server,

obtain the mobile object server identifier from the object server that manages the object agent for the moving object if the mobile object server is not executing the mobile object agent for the moving object, and

request a mobile object server identified by the mobile object server identifier to transfer the mobile object agent for the moving object.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising a plurality of passenger servers including at least one passenger server including a passenger agent that contains information of at least one passenger.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the mobile object server is further operable to:

obtain information of at least one passenger of the moving object from the moving object,

request the object agent for the moving object to store the information of the at least one passenger of the moving object, and

store the information of the at least one passenger of the moving object in the mobile object agent for the moving object.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one mobile object server is further operable to execute the mobile object agent for the moving object to provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space based on the information of the at least one passenger of the moving object.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each event server is further operable to execute an event agent to manage an event on a route in an area assigned to the event server.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein each event server is further operable to manage an influence event of a target route, wherein the influence event of the target route relates to an event on another route within a threshold travelling distance of the target route.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein each event server is further operable to manage influence events by managing event identifiers of an event relating to the influence events.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein each mobile object server is further operable to:

receive information from the moving object in the region assigned to the mobile object server,

determine the target route where the moving object is located,

request the event agent assigned to the area where the target route is located to send a first event list containing information of an event on the target route and the influence event of the target route, and

execute the mobile object agent for the moving object to provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space based on the information of the event on the other route and the influence event of the target route.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein each mobile object server is further operable to:

request an event agent that manages the information of the influence event to send a second event list containing information of the influence event if the influence event is located outside of the area including the target route, and

execute the mobile object agent for the moving object to provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space based on the information included in the first event list and the second event list.

12. The method of claim 7,

wherein the at least one mobile object server is further operable to:

receive information from the moving object in the region assigned to the mobile object server, and

send the information to one of the plurality of event servers assigned to a region where the moving object is located; and

wherein the event agent assigned to the area is executable to generate an event based on the information from the moving object.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the event agent assigned to the area is executable to:

generate a candidate event based on the information from the moving object, and

upgrade the candidate event to the event based on information from another moving object.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of subsystems, each subsystem of the plurality of subsystems including one of the plurality of mobile object servers and at least one of the plurality of event servers,

wherein each region of the plurality of regions includes at least one area of the plurality of areas.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of mobile object servers respectively assigned to a plurality of regions in a geographic space, the plurality of mobile object servers including at least one mobile object server including a mobile object agent assigned to a moving object in the assigned region; and

a plurality of object servers including at least one object server including an object agent containing information of the moving object;

wherein each mobile object server is further operable to;

receive information from the moving object in the region assigned to the mobile object server; and

generate the mobile object agent for the moving object by obtaining information of the moving object from the object server that includes the object agent containing the information of the moving object if there is no mobile object server among the plurality of mobile object servers that is executing the mobile object agent.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

assigning a plurality of mobile object servers respectively to a plurality of regions in a geographic space, the plurality of mobile object servers including at least one mobile object server including a mobile object agent assigned to a moving object in the assigned region; and

managing, by a plurality of event servers, events occurring in the geographic space;

wherein each mobile object server is operable to;

transfer the mobile object agent to one of the plurality of mobile object servers assigned to a neighboring region in response to the moving object moving to the neighboring region, and

execute the mobile object agent to;

collect information of events from at least one event server, and

provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space.