Vehicle Profile Sharing via Blockchain Intermediary
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media subscription services for vehicles lack a decentralized system for secure and efficient peer-to-peer sharing of user profiles, limiting flexibility and accessibility of services among transport occupants.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-based system that allows vehicles to receive, determine, and share user profiles, enabling secure and efficient peer-to-peer sharing of subscription services among transport occupants by utilizing smart contracts and decentralized storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a centralized authority manages profile sharing, then security and control are improved, but flexibility and accessibility of services are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized authority (server system) as an intermediary that manages profile sharing between transport devices. The server receives profile data from first transport, generates shared profiles, and distributes them to second transport devices. This intermediary approach maintains security and control (improving reliability) while enabling flexible peer-to-peer service access (improving adaptability), thus resolving the contradiction between centralized control and decentralized flexibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If peer-to-peer profile sharing is implemented, then flexibility and service accessibility are improved, but security and tracking capability are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as a trusted intermediary that secures the peer-to-peer profile sharing process. It receives encrypted profile data from first transport, generates shared profiles with appropriate access controls, and distributes them to authorized second transport devices. This allows flexible peer-to-peer service access while maintaining security through centralized verification and tracking of profile sharing transactions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the centralized authority tracks and monitors profile sharing transactions between transports. The server maintains records of which profiles are shared with which transports, enabling security auditing and control while still allowing flexible peer-to-peer service access. This feedback loop ensures reliability is maintained despite decentralized operations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If decentralized profile storage is used, then service accessibility across multiple transports is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the profile storage system into multiple components: centralized server storage for master profiles, and distributed transport-level storage for shared profiles. This segmentation allows service accessibility across multiple transports while managing complexity by dividing responsibilities between the centralized authority (profile management) and individual transports (local access and sharing).
Solution Approach 2:
The server system provides universal profile management functionality that serves multiple transport devices. A single profile shared through the server can be accessed by multiple second transport devices, providing multi-functionality that improves service accessibility without requiring each transport to implement complex independent profile management systems, thus reducing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a transport, a service selection by a transport occupant inside the transport, accessing, by the transport, a profile of the transport occupant on a remote storage, determining, by the transport, if the profile of the transport occupant contains a subscription for the service selection, responsive to the profile of the transport occupant not having the subscription, acquiring permissions to use the service selection from a plurality of transports having profiles connected to the profile of the transport occupant, and providing the service selection to the transport occupant based on the permissions.