US 11,109,249 B2Granted

Systems and methods for improved monitoring of a vehicle integration platform

AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.

InventorsJohn T. Campbell, Jr., Matthew James Way, Brent Justin Goldman

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Abstract

Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods that generate simulated communications traffic to enable improved monitoring of the performance of a vehicle integration platform (VIP) associated with a service provider entity. For instance, the VIP can provide services to or otherwise communicate with a number of different clients (e.g., autonomous vehicles included in one or more fleets of autonomous vehicles). However, when, for various operational reasons, the one or more fleets of autonomous vehicle are not operating or otherwise communicating with the VIP, it can be difficult to assess whether the VIP is correctly operating. As such, according to an aspect of the present disclosure, a watchdog monitoring system can be included in or otherwise interoperate with the VIP.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a first level of communications traffic, wherein the first level of communications traffic is indicative of an amount of actual communications traffic occurring via a vehicle integration platform, wherein the vehicle integration platform comprises a plurality of application programming interfaces configured to facilitate message communication among clients;
determining, by the computing system, a predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic occurring via the vehicle integration platform, wherein the predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic is representative of a level at which performance measures of the vehicle integration platform are evaluated;
generating, by the computing system, a second level of communications traffic, wherein the second level of communications traffic comprises an amount of simulated communications traffic determined such that the second level of communications traffic plus the first level of communications traffic is greater than or equal to the predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic occurring via the vehicle integration platform, wherein the simulation communications traffic is generated based on historical actual communication;
and
monitoring, by the computing system, one or more performance characteristics of the vehicle integration platform while at least the second level of communications traffic is occurring via the vehicle integration platform.

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A computing system, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more memories including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
determining a first level of communications traffic, wherein the first level of communications traffic is indicative of an amount of actual communications traffic occurring via a vehicle integration platform, wherein the vehicle integration platform comprises a plurality of application programming interfaces configured to facilitate message communication among clients;
determining a predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic occurring via the vehicle integration platform, wherein the predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic is representative of a level at which performance measures of the vehicle integration platform are evaluated;
generating a second level of communications traffic, wherein the second level of communications traffic comprises an amount of simulated communications traffic determined such that the second level of communications traffic plus the first level of communications traffic is greater than or equal to the predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic occurring via the vehicle integration platform, wherein the simulation communications traffic is generated based on historical actual communication;
and
monitoring one or more performance characteristics of the vehicle integration platform while at least the second level of communications traffic is occurring via the vehicle integration platform.

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A communication infrastructure, comprising:

a vehicle integration platform comprising a plurality of application programming interfaces configured to facilitate message communication among clients, the clients comprising at least one third-party client associated with a fleet of autonomous vehicles and at least one first-party client associated with a service provider entity;
and
a monitoring system configured to:
determine a first level of communications traffic, wherein the first level of communications traffic is indicative of an amount of actual communications traffic occurring via a vehicle integration platform;
determine a predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic occurring via the vehicle integration platform, wherein the predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic is representative of a level at which performance measures of the vehicle integration platform are evaluated;
generate a second level of communications traffic, wherein the second level of communications traffic comprises an amount of simulated communications traffic determined such that the second level of communications traffic plus the first level of communications traffic is greater than or equal to the predetermined minimum level of desired communications traffic occurring via the vehicle integration platform, wherein the simulation communications traffic is generated based on historical actual communication;
and
monitor one or more performance characteristics of the vehicle integration platform while at least the second level of communications traffic is occurring via the vehicle integration platform.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/454,624Filed 27 Jun 2019 · us provisional application
Priority: 26 Apr 2019
Published: US 2020/0344622 A129 Oct 2020
Granted: 31 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04W 4/40
Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes: for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
H04L 43/065
Generation of reports: related to network devices
H04L 43/0805
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: by checking availability
H04L 43/0823
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: errors, e.g. transmission errors