# US 10,121,382 B2 · Data flow control order generating apparatus and sensor managing apparatus

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- Number: US 10,121,382 B2
- Document ID: US10121382B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/079,398
- Filed: 2016-03-24
- Published: 2016-07-21
- Granted: 2018-11-06
- Earliest claimed: 2012-09-12
- Assignees: OMRON Corporation
- Applicants: OMRON Corporation
- Inventors: Atsushi Hisano
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10121382B2

## CPC

- G08G 1/22: {Platooning, i.e. convoy of communicating vehicles}
- G08G 1/0112: {from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]}
- G08G 1/0145: {for active traffic flow control}
- G08G 1/087: Override of traffic control, e.g. by signal transmitted by an emergency vehicle
- H04L 47/10: Flow control; Congestion control
- 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
- H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
- Y02A 90/10: Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation
- G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93})
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- Y02A: TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

## Abstract

There is used a data flow control order generating apparatus that includes: a sensor side metadata acquisition unit acquiring sensor side metadata as information related to a sensor that outputs sensing data; an application side metadata acquisition unit acquiring application side metadata as information related to an application that provides a service by using the sensing data; a matching unit performing matching between the sensor side metadata and the application side metadata to extract the sensor capable of providing the sensing data that satisfies the request of the application; and an instruction unit transmitting a data flow control order that identifies the sensor extracted by the matching unit and the application to a sensor managing apparatus that manages the sensor.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A column travel generating apparatus for generating a column of vehicles, comprising:
a receiving unit for receiving, from Machine to Machine cloud server, information stored in a memory of the Machine to Machine cloud server, the information including a respective current position and a respective travel plan of each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles;
a column traveling generation processing unit for extracting, from the information received from the Machine to Machine cloud server, column traveling data including a column traveling group candidate, a column traveling section, and a column traveling time period;
an object generating unit for generating a column traveling control object for each of the column traveling data; and
an order transmitting unit for transmitting an order to the vehicle for urging participation in the column, wherein
the column traveling control object transmits an order to request the signal operation to a signal managing apparatus.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the column traveling data includes information for identifying extracted vehicles, information for identifying the column traveling section, and the column traveling period.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the column traveling generation processing unit refer to the data memory apparatus, and, in the case where the number of the vehicles that follow the same route in the same time period is a predetermined number or more, the vehicles are extracted as the vehicles in the column.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the column traveling generation processing unit performs extractions, the column traveling section is determined, and then the vehicles which travel in the same column traveling section in the same time period are picked up.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the column traveling control object transmits an order to request the signal operation to a signal managing apparatus.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the order to request the signal operation includes position information of a target traffic signal which is managed by the signal managing apparatus and time when green light is lit.