Vehicle Purchase Incentive Control for User Expectation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional techniques for providing users with a vehicle's progress status until delivery do not adequately enhance user expectation.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device with a control unit that offers incentives to vehicle purchasers at predetermined intervals from order to delivery, motivating them through regular updates and potential increased incentives during extended delivery periods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional techniques are used to provide users with vehicle progress status, then users receive basic delivery information, but user expectation and motivation are not adequately enhanced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser expectationVSAvoidservice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The service provides incentives to purchasers at predetermined time intervals during the target period from order to delivery. This periodic incentive mechanism maintains user engagement and expectation throughout the delivery process, transforming a static information provision into a dynamic, recurring interaction that actively enhances user expectation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The service adjusts incentive parameters dynamically based on delivery status and time elapsed. By changing incentive parameters (such as incentive type, amount, or frequency) according to the delivery progress and user behavior, the service enhances user expectation without requiring a fundamentally complex system overhaul.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If incentives are provided at predetermined time intervals, then user expectation and motivation are enhanced, but service operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser motivationVSAvoidservice operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The control unit automatically manages the incentive distribution process based on predetermined time intervals and delivery progress. The system autonomously determines when and what incentives to provide without requiring manual intervention, thereby enhancing user motivation while keeping service operation simple through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The service implements a feedback mechanism where the control unit monitors delivery status and user login activity, then automatically adjusts incentive provision accordingly. This feedback loop enables the service to respond dynamically to delivery progress and user engagement levels, maintaining high user motivation through automated, context-aware incentive distribution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250014061A1Information processing device
Publication Date: 2025.01.09 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit gives an incentive to the purchaser every time the purchaser of the vehicle logs in to the service that provides the information of the vehicle at predetermined time intervals during a target period from when the vehicle is ordered until when the vehicle is delivered.