Vehicle Compliance Security Module for Policy Authentication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Ensuring that modern vehicles comply with specialized policies, such as no-fly zones or noise restrictions, is difficult due to the wide variety of vehicles, manufacturers, and policy providers.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a compliance security module (CSM) in vehicles to obtain, authenticate, and enforce policies using location-based geofencing or V2X messages, monitor vehicle components, and generate compliance certificates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a compliance security module is implemented to authenticate and enforce policies, then policy compliance reliability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepolicy complianceVSAvoidvehicle system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A compliance security module (CSM) is introduced as an intermediary component between the vehicle's control systems and policy enforcement mechanisms. The CSM authenticates policies, monitors vehicle components, and generates compliance certificates without requiring fundamental changes to the existing vehicle architecture, thereby improving compliance reliability while minimizing added complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates digital copies and representations of policy requirements through structured data formats and compliance certificates. These digital copies enable automated verification and enforcement of policies without requiring physical modifications to vehicle components, resolving the contradiction between reliable compliance and system complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If comprehensive policy monitoring and authentication is performed, then policy compliance is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepolicy complianceVSAvoidcompliance verification time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The compliance security module performs preliminary authentication of policies and pre-monitors vehicle component states before actual policy enforcement is required. By preparing compliance data and verifying policy validity in advance, the system reduces the time needed for compliance verification during critical operations while maintaining comprehensive monitoring

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces time-consuming manual compliance verification processes with automated electronic authentication and digital certificate generation. This substitution of mechanical/manual verification with electronic automation significantly reduces processing time while maintaining thorough policy compliance checks

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12587850B2Systems and methods of enforcing policy compliance of vehicles

Publication Date: 2026.03.24 BV NXP BV

AI summary

A vehicle includes a compliance security module (CSM) configured to ensure that the vehicle is capable of functioning in accordance with one or more policies. The CSM can be configured to obtain the one or more policies, authenticate the one or more policies, monitor the components of the vehicle and/or inform policy-related components of the vehicle of the one or more policies. The CSM can be configured to validate that the vehicle will comply with one or more policies, for example, by generating and transmitting a compliance certificate to an enforcing authority.