Invoke Facility Service for Vehicular Safety Restrictions

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Solution Overview

Problem

The National Transportation Safety Board's concerns about driver distraction due to wireless mobile terminal use in vehicles are not adequately addressed by existing technologies, as they fail to restrict dangerous mobile usage while allowing essential life-saving and commerce-related communications.

Innovation Solution

The Invoke facility service is used to apply invocation restrictions to wireless mobile terminal CWS apps, employing Boolean expressions and the 'Not' operation to prevent app invocation during dangerous conditions, such as vehicle movement, ensuring safe usage while allowing critical communications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If wireless mobile terminal usage is completely restricted during vehicle movement, then driver safety is improved, but essential life-saving and commerce-related communications are blocked

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriver safetyVSAvoidcommunication availability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating between types of communications during vehicle movement. Instead of a uniform restriction, the system allows specific communications (life-saving and commerce-related) while blocking others (entertainment and non-essential). This is achieved through service classification and selective invocation restrictions that treat different communication services differently based on their importance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamics by making the restriction system adaptive to different situations and service types. The Invoke facility service dynamically evaluates whether to allow or restrict invocation based on the specific service being accessed, the vehicle's movement state, and the importance level of the communication. This dynamic approach enables the system to adjust its behavior rather than applying static restrictions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If existing restriction technologies are used, then some driver distraction is reduced, but they fail to adequately address NTSB concerns while allowing dangerous usage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety assuranceVSAvoiddriver distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary anti-action by proactively preventing dangerous invocations before they occur. The system monitors vehicle movement status and service types, and blocks invocation of inappropriate services before the driver can be distracted. This preventive approach is more effective than reactive measures that attempt to reduce distraction after it has occurred.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors vehicle status (movement, stopping) and adjusts service invocation permissions accordingly. The Invoke facility service receives feedback about the current state and modifies its restriction behavior in real-time, allowing safe services when appropriate and blocking dangerous ones, creating a closed-loop safety system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If service classification and selective invocation restriction are implemented, then essential communications are preserved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice differentiation capabilityVSAvoidrestriction system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by designing the Invoke facility service to handle multiple functions within a single system component. The service not only manages normal service invocation but also integrates safety monitoring, service classification, and selective restriction capabilities. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated systems for each function, thereby managing complexity while achieving service differentiation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9282180B2Application of the invoke facility service to restrict invocation of compound wireless mobile communication services: division 2—vehicular safety measures
Publication Date: 2016.03.08 KOBYLARZ THADDEUS JOHN
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AI summary

This invention provides a mechanism for restricting invocation of wireless mobile terminal (Smartphone) apps whose execution creates a vehicular driving hazard. Events that cause such hazards are included. An event example is “being a vehicle's driver” and attempting to do the app of texting. Events to restrict an app invocation are also included. These include remote restrictions, such as parents remotely turning off the texting app of their children driving an automobile. Spatial parameters, such as driving on high speed and/or heavy traffic roads, also represent restricting events. Events are inserted within an Invoke facility service's Boolean expression by the builder of an Invoke facility service. The Boolean expression determines whether the invocation of its related app takes place.