# US 10,482,686 B2 · Systems and methods for using on-board resources of individual vehicles in a fleet of vehicles as a distributed data center > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,482,686 B2 - Document ID: US10482686B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/158,124 - Filed: 2018-10-11 - Published: 2019-10-24 - Granted: 2019-11-19 - Earliest claimed: 2018-04-20 - Assignees: SmartDrive Systems, Inc. - Applicants: SmartDrive Systems, Inc. - Inventors: Reza Ghanbari; Nicholas Shayne Brookins; David Forney; Mark Freitas; Daniel Andrew Deninger; Jeffrey Griswold; Jason Palmer - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10482686B2 ## CPC - G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)} - G06F 16/27: Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor - G06F 16/903: Querying (for retrieval from the web G06F16/953) - H04L 67/1097: for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] - 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 - H04L 67/565: Conversion or adaptation of application format or content (adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561) - H04L 67/567: Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers - H04W 4/44: for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] - G07C 5/0841: {Registering performance data (recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B)} - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - 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) ## Abstract This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles. The system may detect vehicle events based on the information conveyed by the output signals. The system includes a remote computing server configured to present a user interface to a user. Through the user interface, the user may query information from one or more vehicles in the fleet. The distributed query is transmitted to individual vehicles, and results are locally processed in accordance with response constraints and subsequently transmitted back to the remote computing server for presentation to the user. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system configured to use data-processing resources carried by a fleet of vehicles as a distributed data center, the system configured to couple with the fleet of vehicles, wherein the fleet includes at least three vehicles, the system comprising: a remote computing server including one or more processors, wherein the remote computing server is separate and discrete from the fleet of vehicles, and wherein the one or more processors are configured via machine-readable instructions to: facilitate presentation of a user interface to a user, wherein the user interface is configured to receive input from the user; receive the input from the user through the user interface, wherein the received input represents a distributed query related to the operation of one or more vehicles in the fleet of vehicles; transmit wirelessly query information based on the distributed query from the remote computing server to at least three vehicles to effectuate individual ones of the at least three vehicles to: (i) obtain sets of response constraints, (ii) obtain current local data transmission conditions, (iii) perform the distributed query on locally-stored information regarding operation of the individual ones of the at least three vehicles, resulting in individual sets of potential results, and (iv) convert the individual sets of potential results to create sets of results, wherein conversion is based on the sets of response constraints and the current local data transmission conditions; receive the sets of results from the individual ones of the at least three vehicles; aggregate the sets of results into aggregated results; and facilitate presentation of the aggregated results via the user interface to the user. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the distributed query corresponds to one or more particular time frames, wherein performance of the distributed query is limited to output signals that were generated in the one or more particular time frames by sensors that are carried by the at least three vehicles. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the fleet of vehicles includes a first vehicle, a second vehicle, and a third vehicle, wherein the locally-stored information regarding the operation of the first vehicle includes first timing information and first operator information, wherein the first timing information associates the generated output signals with one or more first moments of generation by the sensors that are carried by the first vehicle, wherein the first operator information associates the generated output signals with a first vehicle operator of the first vehicle at the one or more first moments of operation, wherein the locally-stored information regarding the operation of the second vehicle includes second information includes second timing information and second operator information, wherein the second timing information associates the generated output signals with one or more second moments of generation by the sensors that are carried by the second vehicle, wherein the second operator information associates the generated output signals with a second vehicle operator of the second vehicle at the one or more second moments of operation, wherein the locally-stored information regarding the operation of the second vehicle includes third information includes third timing information and third operator information, wherein the third timing information associates the generated output signals with one or more third moments of generation by the sensors that are carried by the third vehicle, wherein the third operator information associates the generated output signals with a third vehicle operator of the third vehicle at the one or more third moments of operation. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein at least part of the sets of response constraints are determined based on the query information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the current local data transmission conditions are obtained locally from sensors that are carried by the at least three vehicles. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the distributed query corresponds to a particular vehicle operator. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the sets of results are received in annotated data packets, wherein the one or more processors of the remote computing server are further configured to: receive a set of data packets; determine whether one or more particular data packets are missing or corrupted, based on annotations in the set of received data packets; and responsive to a determination that the one or more particular data packets are missing or corrupted, transmit a request to re-transmit the one or more particular data packets. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the conversion of the individual sets of potential results is based on summarizing one or more results from sets of potential results such that an amount of bandwidth required to transmit the sets of results is reduced compared to the sets of potential results. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the conversion of the individual sets of potential results is based on adjusting a rate of generation and/or capture for at least one of the sensors such that an amount of bandwidth required to transmit the sets of results is reduced compared to the sets of potential results. ### Claim 10 (depends on 3) The system of claim 3, further comprising: the first vehicle, wherein the first vehicle includes a first event recorder configured to detect a first set of vehicle events related to current operating conditions of the first vehicle, wherein the first vehicle event recorder is carried by the first vehicle, wherein detection of the first set of vehicle events is based on the output signals generated by the first set of sensors, wherein the first set of resources is further configured to store information related to the first set of detected vehicle events. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the first vehicle includes one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: determine a first set of derivative operating information, wherein the first set of derivative operating information is derived from the first set of detected vehicle events; assign the first set of derivative operating information to a first set of virtual sensors; and store the first set of derivative operating information. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the stored information related to the first set of detected vehicle events is associated with one or more primary rates of storage, wherein the first set of resources is further configured to reuse a section of previously used storage such that, responsive to reuse of the section of previously used storage, remaining information of the stored information related to the first set of detected vehicle events appears to be associated with one or more modified rates of storage, wherein the one or more modified rates of storage are lower than the one or more primary rates of storage. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the user interface is further configured to: effectuate a review presentation to the user, wherein the review presentation is based on the information related to the first set of detected vehicle events, and wherein the review presentation provides a prompt to the user to provide manual review input regarding the first set of detected vehicle events; and receive manual review input from the user, wherein the manual review input is responsive to the provided prompt; wherein the one or more processors are further configured to transmit the manual review input to the first vehicle, wherein the first vehicle is further configured to receive the transmitted manual review input, and wherein the first vehicle is further configured to store the manual review input responsive to receipt by the first vehicle. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The system of claim 13, wherein the first vehicle includes a first driver interface configured to facilitate interaction with the first vehicle operator during vehicle operation, wherein the first driver interface is further configured to effectuate presentation of feedback information to the first vehicle operator, wherein the feedback information is based on the first set of detected vehicle events and the manual review input. ### Claim 15 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the first vehicle is further configured to: determine one or more operator scores, wherein the one or more operator scores are vehicle operator-specific scores based on the first set of detected vehicle events; and effectuate presentation of the one or more operator scores to the first vehicle operator. ### Claim 16 A method to use data-processing resources carried by a fleet of vehicles as a distributed data center, wherein the fleet includes at least three vehicles, the method comprising: facilitating, by a remote computing server that is separate and discrete from the fleet of vehicles, presentation of a user interface to a user; receiving input from the user through the user interface, wherein the received input represents a distributed query related to the operation of one or more vehicles in the fleet of vehicles; transmitting wirelessly query information from the remote computing server to at least three vehicles to effectuate individual ones of the at least three vehicles to: (i) obtain sets of response constraints, (ii) obtain current local data transmission conditions, (iii) perform the distributed query on locally-stored information regarding operation of the individual ones of the at least three vehicles, resulting in sets of potential results, (iv) convert the individual sets of potential results to create sets of results, wherein conversion is based on the sets of response constraints and the current local data transmission conditions; receiving, by the remote computing server, the sets of results from the individual ones of the at least three vehicles; aggregating, by the remote computing server, the sets of results into aggregated results; and facilitating, by the remote computing server, presentation of the aggregated results via the user interface to the user.