Transport communication

• US 10,469,548 B1
• Filed: 01/15/2014
• Issued: 11/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Ledet, David Gerard
• Primary Examiner(s): Sison, June Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cooney, Adam A
• Application Number:
  US14/155,514
• Time in Patent Office: 2,120 Days
• Field of Search: 709204, 709208
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/047 Optimisation of routes or paths, e.g. travelling salesman problem
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• 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: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage medium, in one embodiment, associating at least one autonomous transport and at least one user, determining at least one characteristic of said at least one user based on at least one of at least one user search history and at least one user preference selection, determining at least one user location of said at least one autonomous transport and querying at least one adjacent entity based at least on said determined at least one characteristic within a predetermined range of said at least one user location.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

associating an autonomous transport and a user;

retrieving, by the autonomous transport, historical web content of a user device of the user, the retrieving comprising accessing the historical web content by the autonomous transport via an application programming interface (API) of a network cloud storage storing the historical web content from the user device;

determining a location of the autonomous transport;

detecting at least one adjacent autonomous transport that is unknown to the user and that is determined to be of interest to the user based on the retrieved historical web content of the user device of the user which is retrieved from the network cloud storage, wherein the at least one adjacent autonomous transport is within a predetermined range of the determined location of the autonomous transport, and has opted in for two-way communication with other unknown users associated with the determined interest; and

establishing an Internet channel between network equipment of the autonomous transport and network equipment of the at least one adjacent autonomous transport via an Internet network system, and transmitting, via the established Internet channel, a query about an interest of the user to the at least one adjacent autonomous transport.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the query is transmitted to the at least one detected adjacent autonomous transport via a broadcast message.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location of the autonomous transport is based on at least one of a global position satellite location and a cell tower location.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising approving communication with said at least one detected adjacent autonomous transport.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising authenticating communication with said at least one detected adjacent autonomous transport.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a scheduling request based on said query to at least one communication device of the at least one detected adjacent autonomous transport.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the interest of the user comprises an item for purchase, and the transmitting the query comprises generating and transmitting a request to purchase the item from the detected at least one adjacent autonomous transport.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each adjacent autonomous transport that is of interest of the user is detectable to the autonomous transport in response to the adjacent autonomous transport executing a common application as the autonomous transport and configuring the common application to establish two-way communication with unknown users associated with the interest.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising changing from the established Internet channel to a dedicated short range communication channel between the autonomous transport and the at least one adjacent autonomous transport to enable direct communication between the autonomous transport and the at least one adjacent autonomous transport.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieving comprises retrieving the interest of the user, via the API, from one or more of web searches requested by the user and emails that the user has previously sent or received.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

a transmitter; and

a processor configured to

associate an autonomous transport and a user;

retrieve, by the autonomous transport, historical web content of a user device of the user, the retrieving comprising accessing the historical web content by the autonomous transport via an application programming interface (API) of a network cloud storage storing the historical web content from the user device;

determine a location of the autonomous transport;

detect at least one adjacent autonomous transport that is unknown to the user and that is determined to be of interest to the user based on the retrieved historical web content of the user device of the user retrieved from the network cloud storage, wherein the at least one adjacent autonomous transport is within a predetermined range of the determined location of the autonomous transport and has opted in for two-way communication with other unknown users associated with the determined interest; and

generate a query about an interest of the user,

wherein the processor is further configured to control the transmitter to establish an Internet channel between network equipment of the autonomous transport and network equipment of the at least one adjacent autonomous transport via an Internet network system, and transmit, via the established Internet channel, the query to the at least one adjacent autonomous transport.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said processor further analyzes at least one user search history to determine at least one user hobby, user sport, and user group, as the interest of the user.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said processor further records at least one user search history.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said processor further determines a route schedule based on a schedule and at least one of at least one route history and at least one input destination.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed causes a processor to perform:

associating an autonomous transport and a user;

retrieving, by the autonomous transport, historical web content of a user device of the user, the retrieving comprising accessing the historical web content by the autonomous transport via an application programming interface (API) of a network cloud storage storing the historical web content from the user device;

determining a location of the autonomous transport;

detecting at least one adjacent autonomous transport that is unknown to the user and that is determined to be of interest to the user based on the retrieved historical web content of the user device of the user which is retrieved from the network cloud storage, wherein the at least one adjacent autonomous transport is within a predetermined range of the determined location of the autonomous transport and has opted in for two-way communication with other unknown users associated with the determined interest; and

establishing an Internet channel between network equipment of the autonomous transport and network equipment of the at least one adjacent autonomous transport via an Internet network system, and transmitting, via the established Internet channel, a query about an interest of the user to the at least one adjacent autonomous transport.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to perform:

recording at least one user search history; and

analyzing said at least one user search history to determine at least one user hobby, user sport, and user group, as the interest of the user.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising approving communication with said at least one detected adjacent autonomous transport entity.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising authenticating communication with said at least one detected adjacent autonomous transport.