US 12,524,720 B1Granted

Resource sharing between vehicles

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsIndraneel Mitra, Michael Garcia, Brett Francis

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Abstract

A vehicle resource management system provides vehicles with vehicle agents that enable sharing of resources, via peer-to-peer connections between vehicles or other resource providers and resource consumers. For example, a first vehicle may be allocated computing capacity, storage capacity, or networking capacity of a second vehicle for use by the first vehicle over an ephemeral connection between the vehicles. The first vehicle may broadcast a request for leased resources to a plurality of potential resource providers and may select a given resource provider based on attributes of the task to be performed, policies of the vehicle, and information indicated in responses received in response to the broadcast. Upon acceptance a cryptographic handshake may be performed to establish an ephemeral connection between the vehicle and resource provider to enable sharing of resources over a direct peer-to-peer connection.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

one or more cloud computing devices, configured to:
generate a vehicle agent configured to be executed in a vehicle runtime environment of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle agent, when executed in the vehicle runtime environment, is further configured to:
cause a broadcast to be issued via an antenna of the vehicle to one or more resource providers external to the vehicle;
receive one or more responses from the one or more resource providers indicating an availability of resources at respective ones of the one or more resource providers to execute at least part of a task of the vehicle, wherein based on the one or more responses and a policy of the vehicle agent, a set of one or more resources of the one or more resource providers is used to execute the at least part of the task, and wherein the set of one or more resource providers is further based on an execution duration of the task and an estimated amount of time a location, or a travel direction and/or speed, of the one or more resource providers will remain within a threshold tolerance for a threshold duration during the execution of the at least part of the task;
establish a connection to the set of one or more resources of the one or more resource providers via the antenna of the vehicle;
and
execute the at least part of the task at least in part using leased resources of the set of one or more resources of the one or more resource providers.

4 more elements

One or more non-transitory, computer-readable, storage media, storing program instructions that, when executed on or across one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

cause a broadcast to be issued from the vehicle to one or more resource providers external to the vehicle requesting access to use one or more resources of the one or more resource providers to execute, at least in part, a task of the vehicle;
receive one or more responses from the one or more resource providers indicating an availability of resources at the one or more resource providers to execute the at least part of the task, wherein based on the one or more responses and a policy of the vehicle, a set of the one or more resource providers is used to execute the at least part of the task, and wherein the set of one or more resource providers is further based on an execution duration of the task and an estimated amount of time a location, or a travel direction and/or speed, of the resource providers will remain within a threshold tolerance for a threshold duration during the execution of the at least part of the task;
cause a connection to be established between the vehicle and the set of the one or more resource providers external to the vehicle;
and
execute the task, at least in part, using one or more resources of the set of one or more resource providers that are external to the vehicle.

2 more elements

One or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media, storing program instructions that, when executed on or across one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

receive, at a first vehicle, a request from a second vehicle for access to one or more resources of the first vehicle wherein based on information included in the request and a policy of the first vehicle, one or more resources of the first vehicle are offered for leased access to the second vehicle, and wherein the information included in the request comprises an execution duration of a task of the second vehicle and an estimated amount of time which a travel direction and/or speed of the first vehicle will remain within a threshold tolerance for a threshold duration during execution of the task;
provide, in response to offering the second vehicle leased access to the one or more resources of the first vehicle, a response to the request indicating the one or more resources of the first vehicle offered for lease and one or more lease terms for the one or more resources of the first vehicle to be leased for use by the second vehicle;
and
responsive to receiving a lease acceptance from the second vehicle, initiate one or more configuration operations to execute at least a portion of the task for the second vehicle using the one or more resources of the first vehicle.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/810,326Filed 30 Jun 2022
Granted: 13 Jan 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06Q 10/06315
Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations: needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
G06Q 30/0645
Buying, selling or leasing transactions: rental transactions; Leasing transactions
G06Q 50/40
Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g.…:…
G08G 1/091
Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions: traffic information broadcasting