US Patent:
20120290166, Nov 15, 2012
Inventors:
Charles L. Wallace - San Diego CA, US
Ernest Basin - San Diego CA, US
Eric G. DeWall - San Diego CA, US
Sjef van Gool - North Brabant, NE
Rajendra K. Somla - San Diego CA, US
Daniel A. Deninger - San Diego CA, US
Douglas C. Woody - San Diego CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 7/00
Abstract:
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for vehicle monitoring with processing interruption tolerance. One or more vehicle sensors can transmit one or more data streams to a primary data processing system via a data channel. A secondary data buffer can be coupled to the data channel to continuously capture the set of data streams and/or subsets thereof. During normal operation, the set of data streams are processed by the primary data processing system. After a limited-duration fault occurs in the primary data processing system, it can recover by accessing the backup data in the secondary data buffer. The lost data can be retrieved from the secondary data buffer using timestamp information to process the data in its original time context and to ensure that no already-processed data is included. The set of data streams can be downsampled or decimated in the secondary data buffer to extend storage capacity.