Telematics Data Normalization for Privacy-Aware Secure Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Determining when a mobile phone is taking a trip in a vehicle and/or when a user associated with the mobile phone is driving a vehicle is difficult, especially when normalizing data inputs from various mobile devices with different operating systems across multiple regions, and ensuring appropriate privacy measures for data transmission are challenging.
Innovation Solution
A data normalization service that can normalize telematics data from any mobile phone in any region, integrated with vehicle information systems and data intelligence platforms, ensuring privacy measures are implemented by deriving permissions from user settings and region-specific regulations, and securely transmitting normalized data to authorized users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If telematics data is collected from mobile devices with different operating systems across multiple regions, then the quantity and diversity of data increases, but data normalization becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based normalization service as an intermediary between diverse mobile devices and the fleet management system. This service receives raw telematics data from various sources, normalizes it to a common format, and then transmits it to authorized users. The normalization service acts as a mediator that handles the complexity of data standardization, allowing the fleet management system to work with uniform data regardless of the original device diversity.
2Ease of operation
If telematics data is transmitted to multiple users, then data accessibility improves, but privacy protection becomes more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements permission-based data transmission where different users receive different subsets of telematics data based on their specific authorization levels. Instead of uniformly distributing all data to all users, the system tailors data transmission to each user's needs and permissions. This ensures that each user receives only the minimum necessary data to perform their functions, reducing privacy risks while maintaining accessibility.
3Reliability
If region-specific privacy regulations are implemented, then compliance with local laws improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal permission management system that handles multiple regional privacy regulations through a single integrated framework. The normalization service incorporates region-specific compliance requirements into its universal data handling process, allowing the same system to automatically adapt to different regulatory environments (such as GDPR in Europe or other regional laws) without requiring separate systems for each region.
4Adaptability or versatility
If data normalization is performed across different operating systems, then data compatibility improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs data normalization as a preliminary action in the data processing pipeline, immediately upon receiving raw telematics data from mobile devices. By normalizing data early in the process rather than later during analysis or transmission, the system establishes a consistent data format upfront, which accelerates subsequent processing steps and reduces overall processing time despite the initial normalization effort.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and storage media for securely transmitting information are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a user identification token from a mobile device associated with a first user; verify an identity of the first user utilizing the user identification token; provide a positive response token to the mobile device associated with the first user indicating the identity of the first user has been verified; based on providing the positive response token, receive telematics data, the user identification token, and a timestamp from the mobile device associated with the first user; normalize the received telematics data; based on privacy settings derived from the mobile device associated with the first user, receive permission, from the first user, to share the normalized telematics data; and based on receiving permission, from the first user, to share the normalized telematics data, transmitting at least a portion of the normalized telematics data to a second user.