Patent attributes
A vehicle communication system includes a communication network, a plurality of processing units-being connected via the communication network with each other for transmitting and receiving data between them, each of the processing units being either one of a first type processing unit implementing a data consuming application, a second type processing unit providing data to other of the processing units, or a third type processing unit implementing a data consuming application and providing data to other of the processing units. Furthermore, it includes a plurality of data providers, each of the data providers being connected to a respective second type processing unit or a respective third type processing unit and providing respective data values to the associated processing unit. The second type processing unit and the third type processing unit are, upon receiving a data value from an associated data provider, configured to convert the data value into a self-describing binary format to add a timestamp attribute to the converted data value, the timestamp attribute comprising an absolute time information indicating an expiry of the data value and/or indicating the time of creation of the data value, and to store the converted data value with timestamp attribute in a distributed data space, wherein the distributed data space comprises a set of in-memory databases of second type processing unit and third type processing unit. The data consuming application of a respective second type processing unit and/or of a respective third type processing unit is adapted to access the converted data value in the distributed data space via a predetermined standardized interface.
