Group Driving Server for Shared Recommended Places and In-Car Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional navigation devices lack functionality to enhance user convenience during extended vehicle use, particularly in group driving scenarios, by enabling efficient information sharing and additional services among multiple vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A service providing server and method that facilitates information sharing and additional services among multiple vehicles by selecting a recommended place based on user preferences and location, providing coordinated travel routes, and offering services like menu notifications, order services, and payment services through integrated in-vehicle payment functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional navigation devices are used individually in multiple vehicles, then each vehicle can provide basic route guidance functions, but user convenience is limited and information sharing between vehicles is not enabled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual navigation device functions into a coordinated system where multiple vehicles share route information, recommended places, and navigation status through a server. This combines the capabilities of separate devices to provide enhanced user convenience and information sharing during group driving scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation system is enhanced with multi-functionality by enabling not only basic route guidance but also information sharing, coordinated navigation, and interaction with other vehicles. The system serves multiple purposes including individual navigation, group coordination, and communication between vehicles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual phone use is required for additional services, then service functionality is available, but user convenience is reduced and safety is compromised during driving
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by automatically providing additional services such as menu notifications, order services, and payment services directly through the navigation device. The system autonomously handles service requests without requiring drivers to manually use phones or other external devices, thereby maintaining safety and convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation device acts as an intermediary between the driver and external services. Instead of directly using a phone or other device, the navigation system mediates by receiving service requests, processing them, and delivering appropriate responses, thus maintaining focus on the road while accessing services.
3Adaptability or versatility
If detailed service information is provided to all vehicles, then service accessibility is improved, but information overload and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing service information selectively based on each vehicle's specific needs, location, and navigation status. Rather than uniformly distributing all service information to all vehicles, the system tailors the information content to the local context of each vehicle, reducing unnecessary information overload while maintaining accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The information management system is segmented by organizing service information into distinct categories such as menu notifications, order services, and payment services. This segmentation allows the system to manage and distribute information more efficiently, processing different types of information through dedicated pathways and reducing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A service providing server includes a sharing unit configured to, when a group driving function of traveling while sharing a destination or a current location is enabled in multiple vehicles, share, between the multiple vehicles, information on at least some of recommended places displayed on a respective display device provided in each of the multiple vehicles. The service providing server also includes an execution unit configured to, based on the shared information, select a recommended place and provide an additional service for the selected recommended place.