Vehicle Pedestrian Validation Code Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a growing concern for the safety of pedestrians and drivers in situations where driver-operated vehicles meet clients, as incidents such as thefts, sexual assaults, and kidnappings have increased, highlighting the need for a method to validate the driver's authorization before the meeting.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that uses a wireless device in the vehicle with an illuminated display to show a driver validation code, synchronized with a pedestrian client's device, ensuring the driver is authorized to meet the pedestrian, maintaining anonymity and enhancing security through cryptographic protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a driver validation system is implemented to verify driver authorization before meeting pedestrians, then safety of pedestrians and drivers is improved, but device complexity increases due to synchronization mechanisms between multiple devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a validation code as an intermediary element that mediates the verification between the driver's device and the pedestrian's device. The code is generated by the driver's device, displayed on both devices simultaneously through synchronization, and serves as the medium for validation without requiring direct complex communication protocols between the devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The validation code is copied and displayed on both the driver's device and the pedestrian's device simultaneously. This copying mechanism allows the pedestrian to verify the driver's authorization by comparing codes without requiring complex real-time communication, simplifying the overall system while maintaining reliability.
2Reliability
If synchronized display of validation codes is implemented between driver and pedestrian devices, then validation reliability is improved, but loss of time increases due to synchronization delays
Solution Approach 1:
The validation code is generated and prepared in advance by the driver's device before the meeting occurs. The code is displayed on both devices simultaneously through pre-established synchronization, allowing validation to occur immediately upon display without time-consuming real-time generation or communication delays during the critical validation moment.
3Reliability
If cryptographic protection is used to maintain driver anonymity while validating authorization, then security is improved, but device complexity increases due to cryptographic operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the cryptographic validation functionality into a separate, dedicated validation code generation and display system. Instead of requiring the main device to perform complex cryptographic operations, the system uses a specialized component that generates and displays the validation code, separating the security function from the general device operations and reducing overall device complexity.
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AI summary
Information processing systems, computer readable storage mediums, and methods for communicating driver validation messages between a driver operated vehicle and a pedestrian client. One method, with a driver operated vehicle wireless device in the driver operated vehicle (DOV), includes wirelessly receiving, by the DOV wireless device, a pedestrian only message including a driver validation code, the driver validation code being anonymous to the driver of the DOV. The DOV wireless device displaying, through a window and visible outside the DOV, the driver validation code during a time interval synchronized to be cotemporaneous with displaying the driver validation code via a pedestrian client mobile device outside of the DOV. A contemporaneous display of the driver validation code on both devices visually validates the driver being authorized to meet a pedestrian client using the pedestrian client mobile device outside of the DOV.