Multimode Vehicle Messaging Hybrid Platform Back Office Controller
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle messaging systems lack effective backend support and upstream management for multimode messaging, limiting Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and other entities in ensuring customer satisfaction and performance across disparate radio networks.
Innovation Solution
A hybrid platform with a back office controller that determines operating characteristics for various radio networks, adds multimode information to datasets for synchronization and routing, and uses IoT, Wi-Fi, and cellular controllers to manage communication, enabling efficient multimode messaging across different wireless networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the message originator is responsible for selecting the radio network, then the system can support multiple radio networks, but OEMs and other entities lose backend support and upstream management capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a back office controller as an intermediary component that sits between the message originator and the vehicle telematics unit. This controller manages the selection of radio networks and handles backend support functions, thereby mediating the interaction and restoring upstream management capability while maintaining support for multiple radio networks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the back office controller receives performance information from the telematics unit and adjusts radio network selection accordingly. This feedback loop enables continuous optimization of messaging performance while maintaining centralized management and control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle includes capabilities to support multimode messaging across disparate radio networks, then the vehicle can communicate with multiple networks, but the complexity of managing operation of the disparate radio networks increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complexity of radio network management from the vehicle telematics unit and relocates it to a centralized back office controller. This separation allows the vehicle to maintain multimode messaging capabilities while the management complexity is handled by a dedicated controller that processes messaging requests and selects appropriate radio networks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the messaging system into distinct functional components: a back office controller for management and selection, and a telematics unit for execution. This segmentation divides the complexity of managing multiple radio networks across different functional boundaries, making the overall system more manageable.
3Reliability
If the back office controller determines multimode information for datasets, then synchronization and routing control is improved, but the processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having the back office controller pre-determine multimode information and radio network selection before the actual messaging occurs. Performance data is collected and analyzed in advance, and routing decisions are made beforehand, which reduces processing time during actual message transmission while maintaining reliable synchronization and routing control.
Data Source
AI summary
Multimode messaging of the type suitable for use in communicating a plurality of datasets to a vehicle, a telematics unit, and/or another device. The multimode message may be facilitated with a hybrid platform having a plurality of radio access points configured for supporting messaging with a vehicle according to differing types of wireless radio communications and a back office controller configured for determining multimode information to be added to each of the datasets prior to the datasets being communicated to the hybrid platform for transport to the vehicle.