Communication Quality Mediation for Remote Vehicle Service Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for remote vehicle control services do not adequately account for communication quality between external service providers and destinations, leading to potential delays or interruptions that affect service execution.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that communicates with external service providers to receive requests for communication quality information, acquires this information from a database, and transmits it back to the providers to enable them to suitably control the service destination based on the quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If remote driving control is implemented between external service provider and vehicle, then external services can be provided, but communication delay or interruption occurs affecting service execution

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexternal service provision capabilityVSAvoidcommunication reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring communication quality information in advance from a database before providing external services. The information processing device retrieves communication quality data (such as delay characteristics, interruption rates) for specific regions and transmits this information to the external service provider beforehand, enabling the provider to prepare appropriate control strategies and mitigate potential communication issues before they affect service execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If communication quality information is provided to external service providers, then service control can be optimized, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice execution efficiencyVSAvoidinformation processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary information processing device that acts as a mediator between the database and external service providers. This device simplifies the system architecture by centralizing the communication quality information management functions, including acquiring data from the database, processing the information, and transmitting it to multiple external service providers. The intermediary handles the complexity of information retrieval and distribution, allowing external service providers to receive ready-to-use communication quality information without implementing complex information gathering systems themselves.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP4362509B1Information processing device, method, and non-transitory storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.04.08 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An information processing device (130) configured to communicate with an external service provider (120) includes a reception unit configured to receive a request regarding communication quality necessary for executing an external service from the external service provider (120), an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a predetermined database (133), information on the communication quality necessary for executing the external service based on the request received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the acquisition unit to the external service provider (120).