Patent ID: 11962472
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for remote vehicular micro cloud formation, the method comprising:
receiving a request to form a vehicular micro cloud from a client device, the request comprising an identification of a target geographic area and information defining a task to be executed by the vehicular micro cloud in the target geographic area, wherein the client device is remote from the target geographic;
responsive to receiving the request to form the vehicular micro cloud from the client device, communicating with a plurality of vehicles within the target geographic area to collectively form a vehicular micro cloud at the target geographic area;
receiving resource data from the plurality of vehicles, the resource data comprising detection results of an environment of the target geographic area based on sensor sets of the plurality of vehicles; and
transmitting the resource data to the client device.