Vehicle Electronic Device Wireless Connection Priority Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional vehicle-mounted devices face difficulties in seamlessly switching wireless connections due to double authentication requirements, leading to complications when multiple devices compete for connections and prioritization issues, especially when a device already connected in one communication scheme receives a connection request for a function that requires double authentication.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device equipped with detection and control means to determine priority connections, release existing connections, authenticate, and switch communication schemes to ensure reliable connectivity by preferentially connecting to devices requiring double authentication, utilizing a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi communication schemes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a wireless connection is established with another apparatus in the first communication scheme, then the connection is stable and reliable, but when a connection request is received from an apparatus requiring double authentication, the first authentication cannot be completed and the function cannot be used

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection stabilityVSAvoidability to handle double authentication
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically switches communication schemes based on authentication requirements. When an apparatus requiring double authentication is detected, the system transitions from the first communication scheme to the second communication scheme for authentication, then switches back. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by maintaining connection stability while enabling flexible handling of different authentication scenarios.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the communication scheme parameter (switching between first and second communication schemes) based on the authentication needs of the connected apparatus. By changing this parameter, the system can accommodate apparatuses requiring double authentication without compromising the stability of existing connections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If manual connection switching is performed when connection with another apparatus exists, then the user can establish connection with the desired apparatus, but the operation becomes very complicated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection establishmentVSAvoidconnection switching operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic connection management without requiring manual user intervention. When an apparatus requiring double authentication is detected, the system automatically switches communication schemes, completes authentication, and manages connection transitions. This self-service approach resolves the contradiction by ensuring reliable connection establishment while eliminating complex manual operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary detection to identify whether an apparatus requires double authentication before connection issues problems. By detecting the authentication requirements in advance, the system can proactively switch communication schemes and prepare the appropriate authentication method, avoiding complicated manual switching operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If connection is performed with an information terminal requiring double authentication but having lower priority, then the connection cannot be established, but preventing connection reduces system adaptability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection priority managementVSAvoidability to connect with various apparatuses
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts connection priorities based on the type of apparatus and authentication requirements. By detecting whether an apparatus requires double authentication, the system can dynamically prioritize connections appropriately, ensuring that high-priority apparatuses are connected while maintaining the ability to handle lower-priority connections when appropriate, thus resolving the contradiction between connection reliability and system adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3550864B1Vehicle-mounted electronic device for performing double authentication
Publication Date: 2020.10.28 ALPINE ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Provided is an electronic device (30) in which convenience of switching of a wireless connection is improved and which includes: a connection means (70) capable of a wireless connection with an apparatus in first and second communication schemes; a detection means (120) configured to detect, when the connection means (70) receives a connection request from one apparatus, whether the connection means (70) is in a wireless connection with another apparatus; a determination means (130) configured to determine whether the one apparatus is an apparatus necessary to preferentially establish the wireless connection; and a connection control means (140) configured to control the connection means (70) on the basis of the determination of the determination means (130), in which, when the one apparatus is determined as the apparatus to be preferentially wirelessly connected, the connection control means (140) releases the wireless connection with the other apparatus in the first communication scheme, establishes the wireless connection with the one apparatus in the first communication scheme and then switches the wireless connection in the second communication scheme, and restarts the wireless connection with the other apparatus in the first communication scheme.