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

Claim 12:
13. A system for remote vehicular cloud formation, comprising:
a communication circuit configured to exchange communications between the system and members of a vehicular micro cloud;
a memory storing instructions; and
one or more processors communicably coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to:
receive 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 area;
responsive to receiving the request to form the vehicular micro cloud from the client device, communicate with a plurality of vehicles within the target geographic area to collectively form a vehicular micro cloud at the target geographic area;
receive 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
transmit the resource data to the client device.