Vehicle Privacy Rule Management for Low-Distraction Notifications

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicles lack the capability to provide data privacy and security management in a manner that does not compromise user safety, account for dynamically changing factors, reduce notification burden, and deliver contextually relevant notifications.

Innovation Solution

A data privacy and security management system utilizing a privacy manager and server that collects contextual data to generate personalized privacy action rules, providing context-based notifications and managing user data handling preferences through a user interface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If existing vehicles implement data privacy and security management systems, then user data protection and privacy control are improved, but user distraction and safety risks increase due to notifications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata protectionVSAvoiduser distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different notification strategies based on the specific context and location. Notifications are tailored to the user's current situation, vehicle state, and environmental factors, delivering privacy information only when and where it is most relevant and least distracting to the user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The notification system dynamically adapts to changing conditions including user behavior patterns, vehicle operating state, location, and time of day. The system learns from user responses and adjusts notification timing, frequency, and delivery method to minimize distraction while maintaining data protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If vehicles provide comprehensive privacy notifications and consent mechanisms, then regulatory compliance is improved, but notification burden and user complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregulatory complianceVSAvoidnotification burden
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of privacy risks and prepares context-aware notification content in advance. By pre-processing privacy information and matching it with predicted user contexts, the system reduces the complexity of real-time notification delivery while ensuring regulatory requirements are met.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically manages privacy notification delivery by selecting appropriate channels, timing, and content based on user profiles and contextual data. This self-service approach reduces the burden on users by eliminating the need for them to navigate complex privacy settings and notification preferences manually.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If vehicles collect and process contextual data for personalized privacy management, then notification relevance is improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification relevanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments contextual data into distinct categories such as user profile data, vehicle state data, location data, and environmental data. This segmentation allows for more manageable processing and analysis of contextual information while maintaining the ability to deliver highly relevant personalized notifications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces intermediary processing layers that translate raw contextual data into meaningful privacy risk assessments and notification parameters. These intermediaries simplify the complexity by abstracting the relationship between diverse contextual factors and notification decisions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250348619A1Data privacy and security management system
Publication Date: 2025.11.13 PRIVACY4CARS LLC
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AI summary

A computer-implemented method includes receiving a permission setting selection from a user of a vehicle. The permission setting selection is related to preference for processing of personal data of the user. A privacy action rule is generated based on the permission setting selection. In response to a privacy risk event, a privacy action associated with the personal data of the user is executed according to the privacy action rule.