Digital license plate, system and method for operating same
OwnerSahit Klaiqiinventor
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Abstract
A digital license plate for a motor vehicle includes a display device for displaying a sequence of letters and/or digits to form a vehicle registration number, a storage unit for storing files, an authentication unit for authenticating a file stored in the storage unit to a predetermined source, an encryption unit for encrypting and decrypting a file stored in the storage unit, a transmitting and/or receiving unit for wireless or wired interaction with a server, and a control unit designed to control the display device to display, by the display device, a vehicle registration number contained in a file if the authentication unit confirms that the file originates from the predetermined source.
Claims17
A digital license plate for a motor vehicle, the digital license plate comprising:
- a display device for displaying a sequence of letters and/or digits to form a vehicle registration number,
- a storage unit for storing files,
- an authentication unit for authenticating a file stored in the storage unit to a predetermined source,
- an encryption unit for encrypting and decrypting a file stored in the storage unit,
- a transmitting and/or receiving unit for wireless or wired interaction with a server, and
- a control unit configured to control the display device to display, by the display device, a vehicle registration number contained in a file in response to confirmation by the authentication unit that the file originates from the predetermined source,
- wherein the encryption unit encrypts files containing vehicle registration numbers prior to transmission to a central server,
- wherein the control unit is further configured to cause a vehicle registration number contained in a file to be displayed, unchanged, by the display device only within a predetermined time period, so that the continuous display of a valid vehicle registration number requires the repeated receipt and verification of the authenticity of a file containing the vehicle registration number, and
- wherein the time period defining how long the display device displays the vehicle registration number contained in the file unchanged is defined by a component of the file itself, wherein the time period is 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or 1 year.
A method for running a system for operating a digital license plate, the method comprising:
- encrypting a unique identifier of a digital license plate to a central server together with supplementary documents for registration of a motor vehicle,
- transmitting the encrypted unique identifier of the digital license plate to the central server together with supplementary documents for registration of motor vehicle,
- creating and transmitting a file from the central server to the digital license plate, wherein the file contains a vehicle registration number for display by the license plate, wherein, in addition to the vehicle registration number, further information to be displayed via a display device of the license plate is contained in the file,
- receiving the file sent from the central server by a receiving and/or large transmitting unit and storing the file in a storage unit,
- verifying the authenticity of the file stored in the storage unit for its source and, in response to the verification of the source has been successfully completed, forwarding a confirmation of this to the control unit, and
- displaying the vehicle registration number contained in the file and any other information contained in the file by the display device in response to the control unit having received a confirmation of the successful authenticity verification,
- wherein the control unit is configured to cause a vehicle registration number contained in a file to be displayed, unchanged, by the display device only within a predetermined time period, so that the continuous display of a valid vehicle registration number requires the repeated receipt and verification of the authenticity of a file containing the vehicle registration number, and wherein the time period defining how long the display device displays the vehicle registration number contained in the file unchanged is defined by a component of the file itself, wherein the time period is 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or 1 year.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.