Dynamic Status Update Solicitation for Mobile Vehicle Commands
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing remote vehicle command systems face inefficiencies due to varying communication demands, which lead to cost inefficiencies during non-peak conditions and user experience issues caused by factors like battery level and signal strength in mobile devices.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that determine status update frequencies based on real-time characteristics, such as central office capacity, ambient temperature, and mobile device conditions, to optimize communication traffic and user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the communication system maximizes capability to meet peak demand, then system reliability is improved, but cost efficiency deteriorates during non-peak demand conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts status update frequencies based on real-time characteristics including central office capacity and ambient temperature. During peak demand periods, the system increases update frequencies to maintain reliability, while during non-peak periods, it reduces frequencies to improve cost efficiency. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction between maintaining high capability and achieving cost efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of status update frequency based on varying system conditions. By monitoring central office capacity, ambient temperature, and other real-time characteristics, the system adjusts the frequency parameter upward during peak demand and downward during non-peak demand, thereby resolving the contradiction between system reliability and cost efficiency.
2Loss of information
If status update frequency is increased to improve user experience, then information freshness is improved, but mobile device energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system adjusts the status update frequency parameter based on real-time characteristics of the mobile device, including battery level and signal strength. When the device has sufficient energy and good signal conditions, the system increases update frequency to improve information freshness. When energy is low or signal is weak, the system reduces frequency to conserve device energy, thus resolving the contradiction.
Solution Approach 2:
The status update frequency is made dynamic rather than static, adapting to changing mobile device conditions. The system continuously monitors device characteristics and adjusts the update frequency accordingly, ensuring information freshness when conditions permit while conserving energy when conditions are adverse.
3Loss of information
If status update frequency is increased to improve user experience, then communication system activity increases, but system cost efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system adjusts the status update frequency parameter based on real-time characteristics of both the central office (such as current capacity and load) and ambient conditions (such as temperature). By dynamically changing this parameter, the system maintains information freshness when system capacity permits while reducing communication activity and improving cost efficiency when system load is high.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs feedback mechanisms by monitoring real-time characteristics of the communication system and using this information to adjust status update frequencies. This feedback loop ensures that information freshness is maintained when system resources are abundant while preventing excessive system activity and cost inefficiency when resources are constrained.
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AI summary
A system and method of providing status updates to one or more mobile devices. The method includes receiving a vehicle action request from the mobile device at a central office, determining a status update frequency based upon at least one real-time characteristic, and instructing the mobile device to request status updates on the vehicle action request to the central office at the status update frequency. In an alternative method, a plurality of mobile devices may be instructed to use different status update frequencies. The system includes a server configured to receive a vehicle action request from the mobile device at a central office, determine a status update frequency based upon at least one real-time characteristic, and instruct the mobile device to request status updates on the vehicle action request to the central office at the status update frequency.