MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20130103781A1
• Filed: 07/13/2010
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Mori, Yoshihiko, Mitsui, Takeshi, Fukuhara, Hideki, Todoroki, Yoshio
• Application Number:
  US13/699,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20130103781A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/167 using a common memory, e.g. mailbox
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0002 by adapting the transmission rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0084 Formats for payload data
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

A mobile communication device is mounted on a vehicle, and has a reception unit for receiving a distributed cache that is data having divided information, a distributed cache restoration unit for restoring the distributed cache into original information, a data dividing unit for producing the distributed cache by dividing the information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the distributed cache.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device mounted on a vehicle and comprising:

a reception unit for receiving a distributed cache that is data having divided information;

a data restoration unit for restoring into original information the distributed cache;

a data dividing unit for producing the distributed cache by dividing the information; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the distributed cache.

2. The mobile communication device according to claim 1, comprising:

a received data determination unit for determining whether or not the distributed cache is to be deleted based on the information relating to a transmission source attached to the distributed cache; and

a distributed cache processing unit for deleting the distributed cache by a predetermined probability based on a determination result of the received data determination unit.

3. The mobile communication device according to claim 2, wherein the information relating to the transmission source is the position, the speed, or the traveling direction of the vehicle of the transmission source of the distributed cache, or a transmission time thereof.

4. The mobile communication device according to claim 2, wherein the received data determination unit deletes the distributed cache by a predetermined probability, when a distance between the position of the transmission source vehicle at the transmitted time of the distributed cache and the current position of a host vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance.

5. The mobile communication device according to claim 2, wherein the received data determination unit deletes the distributed cache by a predetermined probability, when the time from the transmitted time of the distributed cache to the current time is equal to or more than a predetermined time.

6. The mobile communication device according to claim 2, wherein the received data determination unit deletes the distributed cache by a predetermined probability, when the speed of the transmission source vehicle of the distributed cache is lower than a predetermined speed.

7. The mobile communication device according to claim 2, wherein the received data determination unit deletes the distributed cache by a predetermined probability, when the traveling direction of the transmission source vehicle of the distributed cache is within a predetermined range with respect the traveling direction of a host vehicle.

8. The mobile communication device according to claim 1, comprising a received data determination unit for determining whether or not the distributed cache is to be transmitted to the vehicle based on a priority assigned to the vehicle, wherein when the received data determination unit determines that the distributed cache is to be transmitted, the transmission unit transmits the distributed cache to the vehicle.

9. The mobile communication device according to claim 1, comprising a received data determination unit for determining whether or not the distributed cache is to be transmitted to the vehicle based on the speed, the position, or the traveling direction of the vehicle, the data length of original information, or a transmitted time of the information,

wherein when the received data determination unit determines that the distributed cache is to be transmitted, the transmission unit transmits the distributed cache to the vehicle.

10. The mobile communication device according to claim 1, comprising a transmission data generating unit for designating a transmission destination for the distributed cache,

wherein the transmission data generating unit designates the vehicle existing outside a communication area of the host vehicle as a transmission destination of the distributed cache, and the transmission unit transmits the distributed cache to the vehicle existing within the communication area of the host vehicle.

11. The mobile communication device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit changes the transmission rate upon transmitting the distributed cache based on the density of surrounding vehicles.