Vehicle Identity Access for Multi-User Settings and Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle-centric connected features fail to seamlessly transfer user settings and subscriptions between vehicles, particularly in multi-user scenarios, where users want to share some settings but keep others private.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle IAM system that utilizes personal entities stored on mobile devices and cloud servers to manage user settings and subscriptions, allowing for the identification of users and switching between different settings and preferences based on user presence, such as driver and entertainment settings, while maintaining privacy and sharing options.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vehicle-centric settings are used, then vehicle configuration is simple, but user settings cannot be transferred between vehicles and multi-user sharing is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments user settings into distinct profiles associated with individual users rather than binding settings to specific vehicles. Each user profile contains personalized settings that can be selectively applied across different vehicles, enabling settings transferability while maintaining manageable complexity through modular profile structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The user profile system serves multiple functions: it stores personalized settings, manages multi-user access, enables settings transfer between vehicles, and controls sharing permissions. This universal profile approach replaces the traditional vehicle-centric settings model, allowing the same settings framework to handle diverse user needs across different vehicle contexts.
2Ease of operation
If all user settings are shared, then collaboration is improved, but privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different sharing permissions to different user profiles and settings categories. Each user profile can have customized sharing rules that specify which settings should be shared with other users and which should remain private. This granular permission structure enables selective sharing of specific settings while maintaining privacy for others, rather than all-or-nothing sharing.
Solution Approach 2:
Sharing permissions are dynamic and can be adjusted based on context. The system allows users to modify which profiles are shared with which other users, enabling flexible control over information access. This dynamic permission structure adapts to different social contexts and user preferences, balancing collaboration needs with privacy requirements.
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AI summary
A vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to identifying a first user via a mobile device, load a first non-person entity associated with the first user from the mobile device to configure vehicle settings, the first non-person entity including a driver setting, a first entertainment setting and a second entertainment setting; and responsive to identifying a second user entering the vehicle, switch from the first entertainment setting to a second entertainment setting.