Vehicle Profile Transcoding via Cloud Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face the inconvenience of having to manually adjust numerous customizable vehicle settings when switching between different vehicles, such as seat position, mirror settings, and radio presets, especially when using unfamiliar or rental vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to upload and store their vehicle profile settings to a server via a network, enabling seamless transfer and adaptation of settings to different vehicle types through transcoding, ensuring a consistent user experience across various vehicles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If user profile is stored only in vehicle memory, then settings can be recalled quickly in the same vehicle, but user cannot access settings in different vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends profile storage from a single-vehicle dimension to a networked dimension by introducing cloud-based storage. The profile data is uploaded via telematics units to remote servers, allowing access across multiple vehicles and locations, effectively adding a spatial and temporal dimension to profile accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces telematics units and cloud servers as intermediaries between the user profile and multiple vehicles. These intermediaries facilitate the transfer and synchronization of profile data across different vehicle instances, enabling universal access without requiring direct vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple user profiles are stored in vehicle memory, then different users can have personalized settings, but profile management becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves profile management from a local vehicle-based system to a centralized cloud-based system. This dimensional shift allows for more sophisticated profile management capabilities, including automatic synchronization, version control, and cross-vehicle accessibility, without increasing the complexity of individual vehicle systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based storage system serves multiple functions: storing profiles for multiple users, synchronizing settings across different vehicles, providing backup and recovery capabilities, and enabling profile transfer between vehicle types. This universal system replaces multiple separate profile management systems.
3Ease of operation
If settings are adjusted manually in each vehicle, then each vehicle can be customized, but significant time is required for adjustments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automatic profile application upon vehicle entry. The system proactively retrieves the user's profile from cloud storage and applies all customized settings automatically, eliminating the need for manual adjustment. This preliminary action occurs in the background before the user needs to use the vehicle.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically detecting user identity (via key fob, smartphone, or biometric authentication), retrieving the appropriate profile, and applying all settings without user intervention. The vehicle configuration system serves itself by autonomously configuring based on stored preferences.
4Adaptability or versatility
If profile data is transmitted via network, then settings can be accessed remotely, but network dependency increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a hybrid architecture where profile data is stored both in the vehicle's local memory and on remote servers. This allows the system to provide offline access to previously synchronized profiles while maintaining the option to update and sync data when network connectivity is available, ensuring reliability regardless of network status.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary synchronization of profile data to local vehicle memory before network disconnection may occur. This ensures that even when network connectivity is lost, the vehicle can still access and apply the user's profile settings from local storage, maintaining system reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for transferring driver profile settings has a communication interface, processor, storage device, and program in the storage device. The communication interface allows for network communications. The processor couples to the interface. Execution of the program from storage by the processor configures the system to perform functions. The system allows for transfer of a driver profile from the storage device to a vehicle for application on the vehicle. The driver profile specifies one or more preference settings for one or more configurable components of a vehicle.