Dynamic In-Vehicle Content Delivery for Itinerary-Based Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
In-vehicle entertainment content updates are inefficient and costly due to manual loading via portable media, prone to human error, and unable to provide timely or personalized content delivery.
Innovation Solution
A system for dynamically loading content onto in-vehicle systems using a content server at a facility, allowing wireless updates based on vehicle-specific itineraries and passenger preferences, with content prioritization and automated management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual loading via portable media is used, then content can be updated in each vehicle, but the process is expensive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of manually loading portable media sticks into vehicles with an automated electronic content delivery system. The system uses electronic communication channels to automatically transfer content manifests and content files to vehicles, eliminating the need for physical media insertion and manual updates. This substitution dramatically increases content update speed and reduces the time required for content delivery across the vehicle fleet.
Solution Approach 2:
The content delivery system enables vehicles to automatically receive and process content updates without requiring manual intervention at each vehicle. The system autonomously identifies vehicles, delivers appropriate content manifests, and transfers content files based on vehicle itineraries and content priorities, allowing the fleet to self-update content efficiently and simultaneously across multiple vehicles.
2Reliability
If manual loading is used, then content can be delivered to vehicles, but coordination is complex and prone to human error
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where vehicles report their content needs and receive targeted content manifests based on their specific itineraries and requirements. The content delivery system monitors and tracks content delivery status, automatically adjusting and optimizing content allocation to ensure accurate delivery to the right vehicles at the right time, eliminating coordination errors associated with manual processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring content manifests based on known vehicle itineraries and content priorities before vehicles depart. Content is prepared and staged for delivery in advance, ensuring that each vehicle receives the correct content without requiring complex real-time coordination during vehicle operations, thereby improving reliability and reducing coordination complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If personalized content databases are created, then content can be customized for each vehicle, but customized portable media must be generated and manually loaded for each permutation
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic content personalization where content manifests are automatically generated and adjusted based on each vehicle's specific itinerary, passenger preferences, and content priorities. Rather than creating static customized portable media for each vehicle permutation, the system dynamically assembles appropriate content combinations and delivers them electronically, maintaining high adaptability while preserving content update efficiency across diverse vehicle configurations.
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AI summary
An example system includes an in-vehicle content-delivery system (CDS) on a vehicle storing a library of content, and a content server including a content portal. The content portal may receive a request for a customized content manifest from the CDS, identify the vehicle, identify a customized content manifest, and provide the customized content manifest to the CDS. The customized content manifest may include a list of content customized for an itinerary and/or the vehicle, and wherein the customized content manifest differs from another content manifest customized for a different itinerary and/or a different vehicle. The CDS may remove first content from the library of content when the first content is not included in the list of content, and load second content to the library of content when the second content is included in the list of content and not already present in the library of content.