Social Media Interface for Vehicle Fleet Server Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems require users to install and learn manufacturer-specific applications to communicate with motor vehicles, making it cumbersome and inconvenient to query or control vehicle parameters.
Innovation Solution
Utilizing existing social media applications that users are familiar with, such as WhatsApp, Facebook, or Twitter, to communicate with motor vehicles through a social media interface on a vehicle fleet server, allowing messages to be interpreted to execute vehicle function calls without the need for specific commands, using an interpretation program that analyzes message semantics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a manufacturer-specific application is used to communicate with the motor vehicle, then the communication functionality is provided, but the user must install and learn a new application, increasing device complexity and ease of operation issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by enabling existing social media applications to serve dual purposes: their original communication function and vehicle control function. The social media application, already installed and familiar to users, is extended to communicate with the vehicle through a server interface, eliminating the need for separate manufacturer-specific applications and reducing the learning curve for users
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between the social media application and the vehicle control system. This mediator translates social media messages into vehicle function calls, allowing communication through a familiar interface while maintaining secure and structured vehicle control protocols underneath
2Ease of operation
If existing social media applications are used for vehicle communication, then ease of operation improves, but new communication infrastructure and interpretation systems are required
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary that bridges the social media application ecosystem and the vehicle control system. This server receives messages from social media applications, interprets them using natural language processing, translates them into standardized vehicle function calls, and manages communication protocols, thereby hiding the underlying system complexity from users
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs an interpretation program with natural language processing capabilities that automatically analyzes incoming social media messages, extracts user intent, and generates appropriate vehicle function calls without requiring manual configuration or complex user input formatting, enabling the system to serve itself in translating between different communication paradigms
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AI summary
The invention relates to a system (1) and a method for communicating with a motor vehicle (2). The method has the steps of providing (S1) at least one social media interface (8, 9, 10, 11) for the vehicle (2) on a specified vehicle fleet server (7), wherein a communication connection is provided by the social media interface (8, 9, 10, 11) via a social media application, receiving (S2) a message from a mobile terminal (3, 4, 5, 6) by means of the social media interface, ascertaining (S3) a vehicle function request from the message using an interpretation program (12), semantics of the message being interpreted in order to ascertain the vehicle function request, carrying out (S4) the ascertained vehicle function request in the motor vehicle (2), and transmitting (S5) a response message from the vehicle fleet server (7) to the mobile terminal (3, 4, 5, 6) if the vehicle fleet server (7) obtains a vehicle parameter from the motor vehicle in response to the vehicle function request, said response message be generated on the basis of the obtained vehicle parameter.