Patent ID: 11935310
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for managing a vehicular micro cloud, including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors disposed on a vehicle, cause the one or more processors to:
determine change in membership parameters for a vehicular micro cloud;
cause a transmission of the change in membership parameters to a local vehicle in a vicinity of the vehicular micro cloud prior to the local vehicle joining the vehicular micro cloud;
wherein the change in membership parameters define at least:
1) A procedure for the local vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud and to contribute computing resources to a collaborative micro cloud task, and
2) A protocol for handling an incomplete task when the local vehicle leaves the vehicular micro cloud in order to preserve data associated with the incomplete task to reduce waste of use of computing resources of the vehicular micro cloud, wherein the protocol for handling the incomplete task includes:
the local vehicle completing the incomplete task after leaving the vehicular micro cloud, resulting in a completed task, and
the local vehicle transmitting data associated with the completed task back to the vehicular micro cloud via a secondary vehicle traveling in an opposite direction toward the vehicular micro cloud; and

determine, in response to the vehicle participating in the collaborative micro cloud task, whether to allow the local vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud based on an assessment of an ability of the local vehicle to comply with the protocol for handling the incomplete task,
wherein the change in membership parameters comprise at least one of join requirements, join protocols, leave requirements, or leave protocols.