Ground system for vehicle data distribution

摘要

Techniques for delivering data or information to a vehicle include a ground based data distribution system that has a ground based determination engine and port networks, and is communicatively connected to access networks. The ground based determination engine determines a content of the data to be delivered to the vehicle, and/or determines one or more predicted locations of the vehicle. The ground based system causes the data to be delivered to the one or more predicted locations, and, at a particular predicted location, the delivered data is transferred to the vehicle, such as by using an information distribution device that is on-board the vehicle. Determination of the data content and of the one or more predicted locations may be performed while the vehicle is en route or is at a port. Data delivery may occur while the vehicle is en route or is at a port.

主权项

1. An information distribution system for distributing information to a vehicle, comprising:
a plurality of computing devices in communicative connection, at least a first subset of the plurality of computing devices having connections to wireless communication channels for communicating with an on-board data distribution device fixedly connected to the vehicle, and at a second subset of the plurality of the computing devices corresponding to respective ports from which vehicles depart and at which vehicles arrive; and a first computing device of the at least the first subset of the plurality of computing devices configured to:
receive, via a respective connection to a respective wireless communication channel, information from the vehicle at the first computing device after the vehicle has left an origination port and before the vehicle has arrived at a destination port at which the vehicle is to arrive, andcause data to be routed to a second computing device of the second subset of the plurality of computing devices, the second computing device corresponding to the destination port, and at least one of the data to be routed or the second computing device determined based on the information received from the vehicle.