Cloud Advisor Account Privilege Segmentation for Vehicle Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle management systems lack the ability to efficiently manage user profiles and settings across multiple vehicles, providing limited access and customization options, especially for guest drivers and advisors, and do not effectively utilize cloud-based services for real-time data updates and notifications.
Innovation Solution
The system allows for the creation of user profiles that can be accessed via cloud services, enabling wireless communication with vehicles to receive and implement user settings, learn behavior patterns, and provide notifications. It also enables the assignment of advisor accounts with defined privileges for remote access and diagnostics, allowing customization and management of vehicle settings through a cloud-based platform.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud-based user profile management is implemented, then access and customization options for multiple vehicles are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based server as an intermediary between users and vehicles. The server hosts user profiles, stores vehicle data, and manages communications, thereby externalizing the complexity from the vehicle system to the cloud infrastructure. This allows local vehicle systems to remain relatively simple while providing sophisticated multi-vehicle management capabilities through the cloud intermediary.
Solution Approach 2:
The user profile system is designed as a universal platform that can manage multiple vehicles of different types under a single account. The profile structure accommodates various vehicle aspects (charging settings, navigation preferences, entertainment configurations) and can be applied across different vehicle models, providing multi-functional management without requiring separate systems for each vehicle.
2Reliability
If real-time cloud communication is implemented, then data updates and notifications are improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic communication cycles where the vehicle system checks for and receives updates from the cloud server at scheduled intervals rather than maintaining continuous real-time connection. This periodic approach ensures that charging status, navigation updates, and other data are refreshed regularly while allowing the communication system to remain dormant between cycles, thereby reducing overall energy consumption compared to continuous real-time communication.
3Reliability
If multiple advisor accounts with different privileges are assigned, then access control and security are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments advisor access rights into distinct privilege levels and categories. Each advisor account is assigned specific permissions (e.g., view-only, diagnostic access, charging control) rather than providing universal access. This segmentation allows the system to manage complex access control requirements by breaking down permissions into manageable, independently configurable units that can be assigned based on specific needs.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are provided. One method includes receiving a request, at a server, to define an advisor account for a vehicle associated with a user account. The request identifies an advisor entity, a vehicle aspect to be assigned to the advisor entity, and privileges assigned to the advisor entity for the vehicle aspect. The method further includes generating the advisor account for the advisor entity as a sub-account of the user account that is associated with the vehicle. The method includes sending instruction data to the vehicle from the server, wherein the instruction data defines that the vehicle aspect is associated with the advisor account. The method also includes receiving data updates, at the server, from the vehicle for the vehicle aspect, from time to time. The data updates are displayable on a user interface that is accessible to the advisor entity, the user interface being rendered by the server that provides access to the advisor account.