Vehicle Functionality Profile Portability via Template Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle control systems lack a convenient method for users to set and port vehicle functionality profiles across different vehicles, requiring manual adjustments for each vehicle, which is inefficient, especially for short-term use.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to select and apply vehicle functionality profiles using a user device, which can store and transmit these profiles to vehicles, enabling seamless emulation of desired performance and feel across various vehicles, with priority-based access and compatibility checking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually adjust operating parameters for each vehicle, then vehicle functionality can be customized, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a template containing operating parameters that can be copied and applied to multiple vehicles. The template is generated from a source vehicle's configuration and can be transferred to target vehicles, eliminating the need for manual adjustment of each parameter individually. This copying mechanism directly resolves the contradiction by making the process efficient while maintaining customization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary configuration by creating a comprehensive template that captures all necessary operating parameters before the user needs to apply them to multiple vehicles. This preliminary action of template generation and storage allows users to quickly deploy pre-configured settings across different vehicles without repeating the configuration process, thus reducing time loss while preserving ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If vehicle functionality profiles are made portable across different vehicles, then user convenience is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a template as an intermediary object that mediates between the source vehicle configuration and target vehicles. The template serves as a portable container for operating parameters, enabling profile portability without directly connecting all vehicles to each other. This intermediary approach achieves adaptability while managing system complexity by providing a standardized interface for profile transfer.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts the essential operating parameters from the vehicle configuration into a separate, portable template structure. By taking out the functional profile data from the vehicle system and storing it independently, the patent enables portability across vehicles without increasing the complexity of the vehicle's core control systems. The extracted template can be easily transferred and applied without affecting the underlying vehicle architecture.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users can access and modify vehicle profiles, then user flexibility is improved, but access control and compatibility management become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal template structure that can be used by multiple users across different vehicles with consistent formatting and data types. This universal approach allows flexible user access and profile modification while maintaining compatibility through standardized fields. The multi-functional template serves as a common interface that simplifies access control rather than complicating it, as the same structure applies regardless of which user is accessing or modifying the profile.
Data Source
AI summary
Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to facilitate application and portability of vehicle functionality profiles are disclosed. An example method may include receiving data indicative of an identity of a user. The method may include determining, based on the identity, that the user has vehicle profile setting privileges for the vehicle. The method may include receiving a vehicle profile associated with the user to apply to the vehicle to adjust at least one operating parameter of the vehicle. The vehicle profile is one of a plurality of predetermined vehicle profiles selectable by the user. The method may include determining whether the first vehicle profile can be applied to the vehicle; and, in response to determining the first vehicle profile can be applied to the vehicle, applying the first vehicle profile to the vehicle that causes an operation of the vehicle.