MANAGEMENT OF EVENTS AND MOVING OBJECTS

• US 20170010111A1
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Published: 01/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gotoh, Yasuhisa, Kanzaki, Eisuke, Miyahira, Tomohiro, Ogihara, Hiroya, Yamamoto, Gaku
• Granted Patent: US 10,742,478 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3453 Special cost functions, i.e. other than distance or default speed limit of road segments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• 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: an event server including a plurality of event agents for handling events occurring in a geographic space; a selector operable to select an event agent among the plurality of event agents for handling an event candidate based on a type of a source information; and a mobile object server including a mobile object agent assigned to a moving object in the geographic space, wherein the mobile object server is operable to execute the mobile object agent to collect information of an event from the selected event agent and provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

handling events occurring in a geographic space, by an event server including a plurality of event agents for;

selecting an event agent among the plurality of event agents for handling an event candidate based on a type of a source information, by a selector; and

executing, by a mobile object server, the mobile object agent to collect information of an event from the selected event agent and provide a moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space,

wherein the mobile object server includes the mobile object agent assigned to the moving object in the geographic space.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a plurality of event detection rules respectively assigned to the plurality of event agents, and

detecting the event based on the event candidate using the event detection rule assigned to the selected event agent.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining an event detection rule from the plurality of event detection rules based on the type of the source information; and

dispatching the source information to an event agent assigned to the determined event detection rule.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining the event detection rule from the plurality of event detection rules further based on an environment of a location of the moving object.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a type of event agent for processing the new event detection rule.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

analyzing a new event detection rule to select the type of event agent.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

determining types of a plurality of event detection rules; and

generating the plurality of event agents for each of groups of the types of the plurality of event detection rules.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

updating the plurality of event detection rules based on the event and at least one of information from the moving object and an environment within the geographic space.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the event agent based on at least one of information from the moving object, a geographic characteristic of a location of the moving object, the environment of the location of the moving object, a current date, and a current time.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining the event agent based on the information from the moving object.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting the event based on a density of event candidates.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

detecting the event based on at least one of temporal density of event candidates and a spatial density of event candidates.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

analyzing a map of the geographic space; and

assigning a type of event agent to an area or a route within the geographic space based on a geographic characteristic of the area or a geographic characteristic of the route.