Telematics Terminal User Display for Vehicle Activation Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of telematics services face inconvenience due to unresolved subscriptions and unauthorized remote control of vehicles when ownership or usage rights are transferred, leading to unnecessary charges and service access issues.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and method that detects vehicle activation and transmits instructions to display user information on a telematics terminal, ensuring that the correct user is identified and notified, thereby allowing for timely cancellation of subscriptions and preventing unauthorized remote control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If user information is continuously displayed on the telematics terminal, then user convenience and service security are improved, but device complexity and power consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice securityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system displays user information periodically at vehicle activation rather than continuously, achieving security verification at critical moments while reducing overall system complexity and power consumption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs user identification in advance at vehicle activation, ensuring authorized users can access telematics services before any remote control operations are permitted, thereby maintaining security without requiring continuous monitoring

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If user information is displayed at every vehicle activation, then service security is improved, but user convenience deteriorates due to frequent interruptions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice securityVSAvoiduser convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements periodic display of user information at vehicle activation intervals rather than at every single activation, balancing security verification with user convenience by reducing the frequency of interruptions while maintaining security at critical moments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically performs user identification and information display without requiring manual intervention from the user, thereby maintaining security through automated verification while preserving user convenience by eliminating the need for users to manually initiate security checks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12198478B2Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and telematics terminal
Publication Date: 2025.01.14 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus receives an activation information from a telematics terminal mounted on a vehicle which is associated with a telematics service contract user. When the information processing apparatus receives the activation information, the information processing apparatus determines whether a predetermined condition is met. If it is determined that the predetermined condition is met, the information processing apparatus transmits a first instruction which causes an information regarding the contract user to be displayed to the telematics terminal.