Vehicle Identity Access for Multi-User Settings Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle-centric connected features fail to seamlessly manage user preferences and settings across different vehicles, particularly in multi-user scenarios where some settings need to be shared while others remain private.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle IAM system utilizing personal entities and vehicle entities, where user preferences and settings are managed through a controller that identifies users via mobile devices, loads appropriate settings, and switches between them based on user presence, allowing for separate configuration and authorization of driver and entertainment settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vehicle-centric model is used to manage user settings, then vehicle configuration is simple, but user preferences cannot be seamlessly carried over across different vehicles and multi-user sharing is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments user settings into two distinct types: driver settings (private to the driver account) and entertainment settings (shareable with passengers). This segmentation allows the system to manage different privacy levels for different setting categories, enabling seamless portability of user preferences across vehicles while maintaining simple vehicle-centric configuration through the personal entity model.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a personal entity as an intermediary between the user and the vehicle system. This personal entity stores user preferences and acts as a mediator that automatically applies appropriate settings based on user identity, eliminating the need for complex manual configuration and enabling seamless preference portability across different vehicles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If all user settings are shared across multiple users, then entertainment sharing is enabled, but driver privacy settings are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments user settings into two distinct types: driver settings (private to the driver account) and entertainment settings (shareable with passengers). This segmentation allows the system to manage different privacy levels for different setting categories, enabling seamless portability of user preferences across vehicles while maintaining simple vehicle-centric configuration through the personal entity model.
3Manufacturing precision
If manual configuration of user settings is required, then setting precision is high, but user operation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically identifying users through mobile devices and applying their preferred settings without requiring manual configuration. The personal entity model enables the system to autonomously manage setting application, ensuring configuration accuracy while eliminating user time investment for repeated setup across different vehicles.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring user preferences in the personal entity before the user enters the vehicle. When a user enters a vehicle, the system automatically applies the pre-stored settings, eliminating the need for manual configuration at the time of use and ensuring consistent, accurate settings across different vehicles.
Data Source
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.