Vehicle-Lodging Remote Booking With Secure TPM Check-In
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in booking hotel rooms while operating a vehicle, such as locating hotels with vacancies, finding rooms matching their specifications, and obtaining acceptable rates or amenities, especially during road trips.
Innovation Solution
A system enabling automated remote transactions between a vehicle and a lodging system, utilizing a trusted platform module (TPM) for secure communication, allowing vehicles to book accommodations, complete payments, and receive access tokens without human intervention, using a payment network to authorize transactions and transmit booking confirmations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually complete check-in processes at hotel front desks, then they can receive personalized service and assistance, but it increases time consumption and reduces convenience especially when traveling by vehicle
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables vehicles to autonomously complete the entire hotel booking and check-in process without human intervention. The vehicle's remote transaction system automatically contacts the lodging system, transmits booking requests with vehicle identifying data, processes payments, and receives booking confirmations with GPS directions, eliminating the need for manual front desk interactions
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations (physical check-in at front desk, handing over keys) with automated electronic communication systems. The vehicle's remote transaction system uses digital protocols to communicate with the lodging system's computer network, substituting physical presence and manual transactions with automated data transmission and processing
2Extent of automation
If vehicles are equipped with advanced remote transaction systems for automated booking, then booking convenience and automation are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The remote transaction system is designed to handle multiple functions within a single integrated platform: contacting lodging systems, transmitting booking requests, processing payments, receiving confirmations, and providing GPS directions. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into one unified vehicle-based solution
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a payment network as an intermediary between the vehicle and lodging system to facilitate secure transactions. The payment network handles authentication, authorization, and payment processing, simplifying the direct interaction requirements between the vehicle's remote transaction system and the lodging system's complex booking infrastructure
3Reliability
If secure communication protocols like TPM are implemented for transactions, then security and fraud prevention are improved, but system complexity and setup requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates and transmits digital copies of security credentials and authentication data through encrypted communication channels. The TPM generates and exchanges cryptographic keys and digital signatures as data copies, enabling secure verification without requiring physical security measures or complex manual authentication procedures
Solution Approach 2:
The Trusted Platform Module performs preliminary security setup by pre-storing cryptographic keys and authentication protocols in a secure environment within the vehicle before transactions occur. This preliminary configuration of security infrastructure eliminates the need for complex real-time security setup during each transaction, reducing operational complexity while maintaining high security standards
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AI summary
A system and method is disclosed for automated remote transactions between a vehicle and a lodging system The system may enable the vehicle to initiate an automated remote transaction to the lodging system to book an accommodation and complete a remote payment. The lodging system may transmit available accommodations to the vehicle. The vehicle may respond with a booking request comprising an accommodation selection and vehicle identifying data and the lodging system may communicate the vehicle identifying data to a payment network to authorize the remote transaction. In response to authorizing the remote transaction, the lodging system may complete the booking request with the vehicle.