Requesting, analyzing and transmitting data from driver assistance systems on a vehicle to an external user

A system for processing data from a driver assistance system (DAS) in a vehicle, comprising:

• a vehicle sensor system for generating DAS data;
• a swarm data aggregator (SDA) for storing the generated DAS data;
• and
• a backend computer comprising a swarm memory for storing the generated DAS data from the vehicle sensor system, and an analysis device configured to execute an analysis algorithm, wherein the SDA and the backend computer are configured to
• generate, via the SDA, a summary of the generated DAS data stored in the SDA, wherein the summary of the generated DAS data is transmitted to the swarm memory in the backend computer to determine, via the analysis algorithm, if the summary includes configured DAS data,
• request, via the analysis device, the generated DAS data stored in the SDA if analysis of the summary indicates that the configured DAS data is contained in the SDA,
• transmit the generated DAS data from the SDA to the swarm memory in response to the request, and
• transmit the generated DAS data from the swarm memory to an external user.

A method for processing data from a driver assistance system (DAS) in a vehicle, comprising:

• receiving DAS data via a sensor system;
• storing the DAS data in a swarm data aggregator (SDA) in the vehicle, wherein the DAS data are provided with a decay time in the SDA;
• generating a summary of the DAS data stored in the SDA;
• transmitting the summary of the DAS data to a swarm memory in an external backend computer to determine if the summary includes configured DAS data in the summary;
• requesting, via an analysis device, the DAS data stored in the swarm data aggregator if the summary includes the configured DAS data;
• anonymizing the DAS data by distorting the DAS data using temporal and/or spatial distortion;
• and
• transmitting the DAS data from the SDA in the vehicle to the swarm memory in the external backend computer for further transmission to an external user.