Network map reconstruction from message data

US10168172B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Eric Bouillet · Hawthorne, US
• Bei Chen · Dublin, IE
• Randall L. Cogill · Dublin, IE
• Thanh Lam Hoang · Kildare, IE
• Marco Laumanns · Zürich, CH
• Rahul Nair · Hyderabad, IN
• Tim Nonner · Zürich, CH
• Pascal Pompey · Nanterre, FR
• John M. Sheehan · Sammamish, US
• Jacint Szabo · Thalwil, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 26, 2016
• Grant date: Jan 1, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01C21/3691
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Embodiments for network reconstruction from message data by a processor. A digital map may be created using one or more messages of a plurality of vehicles obtained at a plurality of control points of a route network. The digital map may be analyzed to estimate a feasibility of simultaneous trajectories of the plurality of vehicles between selected locations in the route network.