Cloud-Triggered Vehicle Action Sequences for User Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicles lack user-tailored features and require lengthy development and update cycles for new functionalities, making it difficult to automate actions based on connected services like weather and location.
Innovation Solution
A user connectivity system enabling cloud interactions that allow for user-customized sequences of vehicle actions through cloud-based APIs, allowing automated execution without OEM involvement or software updates, using triggers like time, location, and weather conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional vehicles use hardcoded features by OEMs, then vehicle functionality is stable and reliable, but user customization capability is limited and update cycles are lengthy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments vehicle functionality into modular sequences that can be independently customized and executed. Each sequence represents a discrete, configurable unit of automation that can be created, modified, and deployed without requiring complete system reconfiguration or lengthy OEM update cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from static hardcoded features to dynamic user-configurable sequences. Users can real-time customize automation sequences based on changing needs, and the system adapts by executing these customized sequences without requiring vehicle firmware updates or OEM intervention.
2Ease of operation
If manual user monitoring of conditions is implemented, then user control over actions is maintained, but user workload and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automation where users configure sequences once, and the vehicle autonomously monitors conditions and executes actions without requiring continuous user attention. The multi-conditional monitoring system automatically evaluates triggers and executes sequences, reducing ongoing user workload while maintaining control through the initial configuration phase.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cloud-based APIs are integrated, then service connectivity and functionality are enhanced, but system complexity and communication requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a sequence execution system as an intermediary layer between cloud-based APIs and vehicle controls. This mediator translates cloud service data into automated vehicle actions through configurable sequences, managing communication complexity by providing a standardized interface that handles API interactions, conditional logic, and actuator control in a unified manner.
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AI summary
A user connectivity system for a vehicle includes a communication system configured to communicate with cloud-based servers via a wireless communication network, the cloud-based servers hosting a set of cloud-based application programming interfaces (APIs) and a control system configured to establish a user connectivity platform that enables user customization of a plurality of sequences each for automated execution of set of respective actions by the vehicle, receive, by the user connectivity platform and from a user, user input defining a user-customized sequence defining a set of trigger conditions and a set of actions, monitor, by the user connectivity platform and using the communication system, for whether the set of trigger conditions for the user-customized sequence has been satisfied, and in response to the set of trigger conditions for the user-customized sequence being satisfied, automatically execute the set of actions for the user-customized sequence.