Vehicle Data Sharing Platform With Cloud Consent Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The automotive industry faces fragmentation in data sharing and consent management, with OEMs lacking a common operating system, leading to proprietary, non-standardized, and low-resolution data that is difficult to access and manage, and obtaining individualized consent for data consumers is challenging without a streamlined system.
Innovation Solution
An automotive data sharing platform utilizing the Android OS, enabling data aggregation through a cloud system with a common API, allowing vehicles to run data collection software, manage consents, and facilitate two-way communication between vehicles and data consumers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If OEMs implement proprietary data collection systems individually, then each OEM can control its own data, but data becomes fragmented, non-standardized, and difficult to access across the industry
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data collection software platform based on Android OS that can be deployed across multiple OEMs and vehicle models. This common platform provides standardized data collection capabilities while maintaining the ability to adapt to different vehicle types and data consumers, resolving the contradiction between data accessibility and system fragmentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a common API layer and data aggregation cloud system as intermediaries between vehicles and data consumers. This intermediary infrastructure standardizes data access protocols and enables seamless data sharing across different OEMs without requiring each OEM to implement proprietary solutions, thereby improving accessibility while reducing fragmentation.
2Reliability
If individualized consent is obtained for each data consumer, then data privacy is protected, but the consent management process becomes complex and difficult to scale
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the consent management process into distinct components: consent request generation, consent form presentation to operators, consent response collection, and consent status tracking. This segmentation allows individualized consent to be obtained for each data consumer while managing complexity through modular process design and automated workflow management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary consent management by obtaining operator consent before data collection begins and establishing consent status in advance. The system proactively manages consent lifecycles including expiration, renewal, and revocation, thereby ensuring privacy protection while streamlining the overall consent process through advance preparation and automated tracking.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a common operating system is implemented across vehicles, then data standardization and accessibility improve, but OEM control over proprietary data capabilities is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing each OEM to configure and customize the common Android-based data collection software according to their specific needs and data policies. While the underlying OS is standardized for industry-wide compatibility, each OEM maintains local control over data collection parameters, privacy settings, and access permissions, thereby achieving data standardization without complete loss of OEM control.
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AI summary
An automotive (or other vehicle) data sharing platform, utilizing and including: a data aggregation cloud system configured to receive input data from a plurality of vehicles running data collection software operating on a common operating system, aggregate the input data, and provide output data associated with the input data to one or more entities utilizing a common application programming interface. The automotive data sharing platform enables the distribution of consent queries from the one or more entities, through the data aggregation cloud system, to selected of the plurality of vehicles that, when accepted enable distribution of the output data to the one or more entities.