Privacy-related electric vehicle charging
AssigneesToyota Motor North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNorman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Abstract
An example operation includes one or more of: determining, by a charging station, that a vehicle requests approval to receive a charge; accessing, by the charging station, personal information related to the vehicle and related to an occupant of the vehicle; analyzing, by the charging station, the personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle; determining, by the charging station, to grant the approval, based on the analyzing; and, responsive to the approval being granted, deleting, by the charging station, the accessed personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle, after the vehicle has received the charge.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining, by a charging station, that a vehicle requests approval to receive a charge;
- accessing, by the charging station, personal information related to the vehicle and related to an occupant of the vehicle;
- analyzing, by the charging station, the personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle;
- determining, by the charging station, to grant the approval, based on the analyzing;
- and
- responsive to the approval being granted, deleting, by the charging station, the accessed personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle, after the vehicle has received the charge.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, wherein the processor and the memory are communicably coupled, wherein the processor:
- determines, from a charge station, that a vehicle requests approval to receive a charge;
- accesses, from the charge station, personal information related to the vehicle and related to an occupant of the vehicle;
- analyzes the personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle;
- determines to grant the approval, based on the analyzes;
- and
- responsive to the approval, deletes, from the charge station, the accessed personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle, after the vehicle has received the charge.
A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when read by a processor, cause the processor to perform:
- determining, by a charging station, that a vehicle requests approval to receive a charge;
- accessing, by the charging station, personal information related to the vehicle and related to an occupant of the vehicle;
- analyzing, by the charging station, the personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle;
- determining, by the charging station, to grant the approval, based on the analyzing;
- and
- responsive to the approval being granted, deleting, by the charging station, the accessed personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle, after the vehicle has received the charge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.