Driver Profile Transfer Across Vehicles for Automatic Setting Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Adjusting vehicle configuration settings for multiple vehicles operated by a driver is time-consuming and inefficient, particularly in fleet scenarios, potentially leading to unsafe operating conditions due to incomplete personalization.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for transferring a driver profile between vehicles, allowing adjusted configuration settings to be mapped and applied across different vehicles, using a mobile application that communicates with vehicles and a remote server to store and retrieve settings, enabling seamless personalization of vehicle settings based on a driver's preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If configuration settings are adjusted manually for each driver and each vehicle, then personalization is achieved, but time consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores configuration settings for multiple drivers in a database. When a driver enters a vehicle, the system automatically retrieves and applies the driver's preferred settings without requiring manual adjustment, thus performing the personalization action in advance and eliminating time-consuming manual configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and stores copies of driver preference profiles in a centralized database. These profile copies can be rapidly replicated and applied across multiple vehicles, allowing the same personalized settings to be transferred from one vehicle to another without manual reconfiguration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vehicles store configuration settings for multiple drivers, then personalization capability is provided, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal centralized database that serves all vehicles in the fleet. This single database system can store and manage configuration settings for multiple drivers across multiple vehicles, eliminating the need for each vehicle to independently store all driver profiles and simplifying the overall system architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a centralized database as an intermediary between drivers and vehicles. This mediator handles all configuration storage, retrieval, and transfer operations, reducing the complexity burden on individual vehicles and providing a unified management interface for the entire fleet.
3Adaptability or versatility
If drivers operate multiple vehicles with different configurations, then fleet versatility is achieved, but consistency of operating conditions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates accurate copies of driver preference profiles and transfers them across different vehicles. This ensures that each driver receives the same personalized configuration environment regardless of which vehicle they are operating, maintaining consistency across the diverse fleet.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized database provides a universal configuration management service that works across all vehicle types and models in the fleet. This universal system ensures consistent driver experience by reliably delivering the same personalized settings across different vehicle platforms.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for transferring a driver profile between various vehicles. A driver profile is created in association with a driver of a first vehicle having a mobile device that executes a mobile application configured to communicate with and receive driver-adjusted configuration settings associated with operation of the first vehicle. The mobile application may store the adjusted configuration settings in the driver profile. The mobile application may be further configured to communicate with a plurality of other vehicles. In some examples, when the driver operates a second vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles, the mobile application can map the adjusted configuration settings in the driver profile to a set of adjusted configuration settings for the second vehicle. For example, the second vehicle may adjust various configuration settings of the second vehicle based on the received adjusted configuration settings.