Vehicle Server Plausibility Check for Security Data Suppression Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to efficiently detect suppression of security-related data transmission from vehicles to vehicle-external servers, making it difficult to identify manipulations or failures in communication.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that implement a plausibility check between current and last security-related data transmissions to detect suppression, distinguishing between communication failures and intentional manipulation by analyzing temporal dependencies and integrity of data packets.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a separate communication channel is used for security-related data transmission, then transmission security is improved, but detection capability for suppression manipulations deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission securityVSAvoiddetection capability for suppression
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the communication channel for security-related data transmissions and comparing current transmissions with historical patterns. The vehicle-external server receives and analyzes data packets, comparing them against expected transmission patterns to detect suppressions or manipulations, thereby enabling detection of security breaches while maintaining secure separate communication channels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by establishing baseline communication patterns and expected data transmission characteristics before any manipulation occurs. The server stores historical data transmissions and uses these pre-established patterns as reference for detecting anomalies, allowing early detection of suppression attempts before they fully compromise security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If plausibility checks are performed on data transmissions, then detection accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by performing plausibility checks only on specific critical parameters of data transmissions rather than analyzing every aspect in full detail. The server checks key attributes such as data format validity, timestamp consistency, and pattern matching against historical data, providing sufficient detection accuracy without the computational overhead of comprehensive analysis of all data characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system utilizes parameter changes by dynamically adjusting the strictness and scope of plausibility checks based on the current communication context. The server modifies detection parameters such as time windows for pattern comparison, sensitivity thresholds, and validation rules according to the specific transmission characteristics and risk levels, optimizing the balance between detection accuracy and processing speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240396915A1Method for Detecting a Suppression of a Security-Related Data Transmission from a Vehicle to a Vehicle-External Server, Computer-Readable Medium, System and Vehicle
Publication Date: 2024.11.28 BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AG
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AI summary

A method for detecting a suppression of a security-related data transmission from a vehicle to a vehicle-external server includes receiving a current data transmission of the vehicle via a first function of the vehicle-external server. The method also includes determining a last, security-related data transmission of the vehicle to a security-related function of the vehicle-external server via the vehicle-external server, and checking the plausibility of the current data transmission to the first function of the vehicle-external server based at least in part on the last, security-related data transmission to the security-related function of the vehicle-external server. The method further includes detecting the suppression of a current, security-related data transmission to the security-related function of the vehicle-external server via the vehicle-external server according to the plausibility check of the current data transmission.