Autonomous Vehicle Delivery Authentication via Dual Security Codes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current online transactions involving delivery or pickup require additional identification and often necessitate customers to physically navigate to vendor locations, which is inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing autonomous vehicles that facilitates transactions by generating security codes and hashes, providing vehicle identification, and using sensors and beacons to navigate and authenticate vehicles, allowing for secure and efficient delivery or pickup without human intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If customers drive to vendor locations for delivery or pickup, then the transaction can be completed, but the customer must navigate to the correct area and present additional identification
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous vehicle performs the delivery or pickup task independently without requiring customer presence. The vehicle navigates to the vendor location, presents identification through its system, and completes the transaction autonomously, allowing the customer to remain at home or work.
Solution Approach 2:
The autonomous vehicle acts as an intermediary between the customer and the vendor. It carries the customer's identification and authorization credentials, presenting them to the vendor to authenticate the transaction, thereby eliminating the need for the customer to physically present identification.
2Ease of operation
If customers physically navigate to vendor locations, then delivery or pickup can occur, but the customer must know the correct area and navigate there
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous vehicle's navigation system handles all location-finding and routing tasks. The vehicle receives the vendor location data from the server and independently navigates to the correct area, eliminating the need for the customer to perform any navigation tasks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical navigation process (customer driving and navigating) with an automated electronic navigation system in the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle uses electronic data from the server to determine and follow the correct route and location.
3Reliability
If additional identification is required during delivery or pickup, then transaction security is improved, but the authentication process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous vehicle serves as an intermediary that carries and presents the customer's identification credentials to the vendor. The vehicle's system handles the authentication process by transmitting the identification data electronically, simplifying what would otherwise require manual presentation of physical identification documents.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual identification presentation (mechanical process of showing physical ID) with electronic identification transmission. The autonomous vehicle's system electronically communicates the customer's identification and authorization data to the vendor's system, streamlining the authentication process while maintaining security.
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AI summary
A delivery server may generate two separate security codes following a transaction between a user and a vendor, as well as a hash of the combination of the codes. The server may provide the first code to the user and the second code to the vendor, and provide the hash of a combination of the codes to both the vendor and the user. The user's vehicle may receive mapping information for the vendor's location, and may use the mapping information to autonomously navigate to an exchange station at the vendor location. At the exchange station, the vendor and vehicle may exchange security codes, and both vehicle and vendor may create a hash of the combined first code and second code, and use this to authenticate each other (by comparing this hash with the hash received from the delivery server). The vendor may then provide the goods to the vehicle, and the vehicle may automatically receive them and return them to the user.