OPERATING TECHNIQUES FOR A STORAGE NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20150373113A1
• Filed: 06/09/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: DOI, MUNEHIRO, NAKANO, HIROKI, NISHINO, HITOSHI, TAKASAKA, SHINYA
• Granted Patent: US 9,569,448 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• 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: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

A technique for operating a storage network system includes storing, at one or more of a plurality of data collection storages arranged along a traveling path of a mobile body, data records received from the mobile body. An acknowledge (ACK) record including a storage identifier (ID) is transmitted, from the one or more of the plurality of data collection storages to the mobile body, in response to receiving the data records. Communication between a user storage and the one or more of the plurality of data collection storages is established via a communication network that is configured to receive the ACK record and receive and store at least one of the data records from the one or more of the data collection storages that is identified by the storage ID in the received ACK record.

Claims

1. A method of operating a storage network system, comprising:

storing, at one or more of a plurality of data collection storages arranged along a traveling path of a mobile body, data records received from the mobile body;

transmitting, from the one or more of the plurality of data collection storages to the mobile body, an acknowledge (ACK) record including a storage identifier (ID) in response to receiving the data records; and

establishing communication between a user storage and the one or more of the plurality of data collection storages via a communication network that is configured to receive the ACK record and receive and store at least one of the data records from the one or more of the data collection storages that is identified by the storage ID in the received ACK record.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication network includes a plurality of cloud storages in communication with the plurality of data collection storages and the user storage, and wherein each of the cloud storages is configured to store one or more of the data records received from at least one of the plurality of data collection storages and mutually exchange the one or more of the data records with other ones of the cloud storages.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile body includes a local storage for storing one or more of the data records and the ACK record, and wherein the local storage functions as a part of the storage network system.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the plurality of data collection storages receives, from the mobile body, and stores the ACK record stored in the local storage individually or together with one of the data records.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each neighboring one of the plurality of data collection storages receives, from the mobile body, one or more of the data records as a part of a series of data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the data records includes a data marker, a mobile body ID, data, a data generation position, and a data generation time, and wherein the ACK record includes an ACK marker, a data generation position, and a data generation time in addition to the storage ID.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user storage receives, from the plurality of data collection storages, all of the data records including any selected one of the mobile body ID, the data generation position, and the data generation time.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of data collection storages receives at least one or both of one or more of the data records and the ACK record while the mobile body is at a stop or traveling at a predetermined speed or lower.