Sensor-Validated Vehicle Voice Control to Block Invalid Requests

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Solution Overview

Problem

Excessive network transmissions of invalid requests in vehicle systems lead to inefficient bandwidth utilization and computational waste, particularly in voice-activated environments, due to the processing of non-valid audio signals.

Innovation Solution

A data processing system that validates audio-based requests by comparing vehicular state attributes with request attributes, discarding or disabling invalid actions, thereby reducing unnecessary network transmissions and computational operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the system processes all audio-based requests without validation, then the system responds to all user inputs, but excessive network transmissions of invalid requests occur leading to inefficient bandwidth utilization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverequest validation accuracyVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by validating audio requests against vehicular state attributes before transmission. The validation engine checks whether requested functions are appropriate for current vehicle conditions (e.g., preventing window opening during rain detected by sensors), filtering out invalid requests prior to network transmission, thus preventing wasteful bandwidth consumption while maintaining system reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The validation engine serves as an intermediary between the audio processing system and network transmission. It mediates by comparing request attributes with sensor-based vehicular state data, allowing only valid requests to proceed to network transmission, thereby eliminating excessive transmissions of invalid requests while preserving necessary communications

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If the system transmits all audio requests to the network, then complete audio processing is performed, but computational waste occurs from processing non-valid audio signals

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudio request processing throughputVSAvoidcomputational efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and removes invalid requests from the processing stream before they consume computational resources for network transmission. The validation engine identifies requests that conflict with current vehicular state (e.g., climate control changes when extreme temperatures are already detected by sensors) and extracts them from the valid request stream, preventing wasteful computational processing while maintaining throughput for legitimate requests

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Loss of energy

If network transmissions are reduced by filtering requests, then bandwidth efficiency improves, but the system complexity increases due to validation requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebandwidth utilization efficiencyVSAvoidvalidation system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The validation engine acts as a relatively simple intermediary layer that compares request attributes against sensor data using predefined validation rules. This intermediary approach achieves significant bandwidth efficiency improvements by filtering invalid requests while maintaining manageable system complexity through rule-based validation rather than complex decision-making algorithms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by validating requests against dynamic vehicular state parameters obtained from sensors (temperature, humidity, occupancy, motion detection). By using sensor-based state parameters as validation criteria, the system achieves efficient filtering of invalid requests while keeping the validation logic relatively simple and adaptable to different vehicle conditions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4303059B1Vehicle function control with sensor based validation
Publication Date: 2025.09.24 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to validate vehicular functions in a voice activated computer network environment. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of the network by discarding action data structures and requests that are invalid prior to their transmission across the network. The system can invalidate requests by comparing attributes of a vehicular state to attributes of a request state.