Elastic transfer and adaptation of mobile client-controlled processes in an edge cloud computing layer

US11689980B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Andrae · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• David Gonzalez Gonzalez · Egelsbach, DE
• Osvaldo Gonsa · Langen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 2021
• Grant date: Jun 27, 2023
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N20/00
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of initiating a transfer of an active first-type slave process, executed in a first processing entity of an edge cloud computing layer, to a second processing entity of the edge cloud computing layer, includes, at a first mobile entity, receiving a first heat map relating to the first-type master-slave process, ranking, based on a cost function, possible process sharing connections, between the first mobile entity and one or more second processing entities, for the current location of the first mobile entity and/or a location of the first mobile entity in the near future, determining, based on the ranking, one or more second processing entities as potential target processing entities to transfer the first-type slave process to, and transmitting a processing entity transfer request to a control process executed in the edge cloud computing layer. The request includes an identification of the active first-type slave process and indicates at least one of the second processing entities determined, based on the ranking, as potential target to transfer the active first-type slave process to.