Mobile Terminal Transport Verification via Short-Range Wireless

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Solution Overview

Problem

Passengers face difficulties in finding safe and reliable taxi services due to issues like crime, cheating, and unfair treatment by taxi drivers, particularly for vulnerable groups such as drunken, female, or child passengers.

Innovation Solution

A method using a mobile terminal to confirm transport service information through short-range wireless communication with transport service providers, ensuring safe transport by verifying driver and vehicle details, processing payments, and allowing user evaluations to build a trusted service network.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a taxi service is provided without verification system, then service accessibility is improved, but safety and reliability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice accessibilityVSAvoidsafety and reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of taxi services before passengers use them. The mobile terminal confirms service information including vehicle details, driver information, and route verification in advance through short-range wireless communication, ensuring safety before the actual taxi service begins

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where passengers can evaluate taxi services after use, and the system provides real-time confirmation of service details. This feedback loop ensures continuous improvement of service quality and maintains reliability while preserving accessibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If taxi service information is verified through confirmation system, then safety and reliability are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety and reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile terminal acts as an intermediary device between passengers and taxi services. It handles the complex verification processes including short-range wireless communication with taxis, server communication for service confirmation, and evaluation submission, thereby managing system complexity through a dedicated intermediate device

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile terminal performs multiple functions: it serves as a verification device for taxi service confirmation, a communication device for real-time interaction, an evaluation system for feedback, and a payment processing device. This multi-functionality consolidates complexity into a single universal device that passengers already possess

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

Data Source

PatentEP2888713B1Method and mobile terminal for providing transport service information, method and server for managing transport service, and method and vehicle for providing transport service
Publication Date: 2021.08.18 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method by which a mobile terminal provides transport service information, the method including transmitting information regarding a user and information regarding a transport service preferred by the user to a transport service managing server, for the user's use of the transport service; receiving information regarding transport service providing means corresponding to the information regarding the transport service preferred by the user, from the transport service managing server; and confirming the user's use of the transport service based on the information regarding the transport service providing means received from the transport service managing server and information acquired from the transport service providing means via a short-range wireless communication by the mobile terminal, when the transport service providing means is available for providing the transport service.