Patent ID: 11971495
Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A data processing system implemented on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the data processing system orchestrating transmission of data from a transportation vehicle fleet to the data processing system, wherein the transportation fleet comprises a plurality of transportation vehicles that are remote from the data processing system, wherein the data processing system:
sends a first message to at least two transportation vehicles of the transportation vehicle fleet, wherein the first message includes of the transportation vehicle fleet, wherein the first message includes measurement order information indicating data to be measured and transmitted by the transportation vehicle and information indicating a predetermined probability of data transmission probability that is specific to transportation vehicles receiving the first message, wherein the predetermined transmission probability information provides an indication of a sample size within the plurality of transportation vehicles that indicates a probability that the transportation vehicle must participate in a data upload to the data processing system, wherein the predetermined transmission probability is used by each transportation vehicle that receives the first message to automatically determine whether to participate in the data upload to the data processing system; and
receives the data indicated in the measurement order information of the first message, wherein the received data has been has been transmitted from at least one transportation vehicle in the fleet of transportation vehicles, wherein the automatic determination by the at least one transportation vehicle whether to transmit the data to the data processing system is based both on the predetermined transmission probability information transmitted by the data processing system in the first message and a state included in a sequence of random states generated from a set of predetermined states via a random generator, wherein the automatic determination performed by the transportation vehicle of whether to transmit the data to the data processing system indicates that the data to be transmitted to the data processing system must be transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system to comply with the predetermined transmission probability,
wherein the first message further comprises repetition information that dictates whether there is a need to re-determine whether to perform data transmission from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system again,
wherein the transportation vehicle determines whether to determine only once or several times whether to send data to the data processing system based on analysis of the repetition information dictated by the data processing system in the first message,
wherein the determinations and re-determinations are chronologically successive determinations, and
wherein the repetition information indicates a period between successive determinations defined by the distance traveled by the transportation vehicle between successive determinations.