Vehicle OTA Virtual Sound Verification for Secure Playback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies face challenges in integrating virtual sound systems with non-fungible token (NFT) blockchain-based virtual environments, particularly in ensuring secure and effective transmission and control of virtual sounds in vehicle environments, while maintaining compatibility with real-world applications.

Innovation Solution

A sound system using over-the-air (OTA) technology for tuning and controlling virtual sounds in NFT blockchain-based virtual environments, incorporating a blockchain platform server, OTA server, and vehicle communication control device to manage and verify virtual sound transactions, perform state tests, and adjust sound parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If virtual sound is transmitted through OTA from blockchain platform server, then sound customization and updates are enabled, but security risks from malicious attacks and abnormal transactions increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesound customizationVSAvoidsecurity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary security checks including abnormal transaction request detection, iterative attack signal detection, and OTA state tests before allowing virtual sound transmission. The blockchain platform server checks for malicious patterns in advance, and the vehicle communication control device performs additional verification, preventing security issues before they can affect the system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary verification layer between the blockchain platform server and the vehicle sound system. This includes the OTA server that manages transmission, the vehicle communication control device that performs OTA state tests, and the sound processing device that conducts final similarity checks, creating multiple intermediate security checkpoints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If virtual sound similarity check is performed against vehicle regulation sounds, then safety is improved, but system complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesafetyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the critical safety function of comparing virtual sounds against regulated vehicle sounds (horn, warning, emergency sounds). This selective extraction focuses computational resources on the most important safety checks while avoiding unnecessary complexity in analyzing all possible sound parameters.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The similarity check is applied selectively to specific types of sounds that pose safety risks (vehicle regulation sounds and warning sounds) rather than all virtual sounds uniformly. This local application of quality control reduces overall system complexity while maintaining safety where it matters most.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If multiple OTA state tests are performed on virtual sound, then transmission reliability is improved, but transmission time and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission reliabilityVSAvoidtransmission time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple security checks and OTA state tests are performed in advance before the actual sound transmission is completed. The blockchain platform server conducts abnormal transaction detection, the OTA server performs transmission checks, and the vehicle communication control device executes OTA state tests, ensuring reliability is established before delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The verification process operates continuously in the background during normal system operations. The blockchain network continuously monitors transactions, and the vehicle system continuously checks for OTA state compliance, allowing multiple tests to be performed without creating discrete time delays in the user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12547368B2Sound system using over-the-air and operation method thereof
Publication Date: 2026.02.10 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

In a sound system that uses over-the-air (OTA), a blockchain platform server is configured to support performance of a virtual sound transaction in a virtual environment. An OTA server is configured to manage a virtual sound transmitted from the blockchain platform server. A vehicle communication control device is configured to perform wireless communication with the OTA server. The vehicle communication control device is configured to download the virtual sound from the OTA server, determine whether the virtual sound is similar to a predetermined specific sound, perform an OTA state test of the virtual sound when the virtual sound is not similar to the predetermined specific sound, and control a sound processing device to play the virtual sound when the virtual sound passes the OTA state test.