Car2X-Communication mirrored by business method patents: What documented inventions can tell us about the future

Car-to-X-Communication (Car2X) represents a set of central business processes of future mobility. It possesses the potential to establish new business models built upon new business processes. In this paper we anticipate future developments in car-to-x communication by means of an information source that has only recently become available: business method patents. Business method patents are a growing information basis and refer to inventions from different technological fields as well as applications of technologies. We develop a systematic forecast on the basis of these business method patents. By using semantic similarity measurement and setting up evolutionary patterns it is shown that car-to-x induces many new applications, such as collusion warning, stopping distance measurement, and surprisingly also communication systems in automobile production e.g. modularity production.