Methods and systems for creating a unique identification number to maintain customer privacy

• US 10,396,979 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2017
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Ravi, Narendran, Rajendran, Aparajithan
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Don G
• Application Number:
  US15/693,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20190074960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/42 Anonymization, e.g. involving pseudonyms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless network architectures or network communication protocols for wireless network security H04W12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/84 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0643 Hash functions, e.g. MD5, SHA, HMAC or f9 MAC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3239 involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3297 involving time stamps, e.g. generation of time stamps

Abstract

Systems and methods for creating a unique identification number to maintain customer privacy. The system includes a memory that stores instructions for executing processes for creating the unique identification number and a processor configured to execute the instructions. The processes include: generating a first identification number based on vehicle information and a timestamp; performing a first hashing function on the first identification number to create a second identification number; performing a second hashing function on the second identification number and a customer identification number to create a third identification number; transmitting an allocation resource request to a third party provider, the allocation resource request including the third identification number and a location of a vehicle; and transmitting the charging schedule to the vehicle upon receipt of a response to the allocation resource request from the third party provider, the response to the allocation resource request including the third identification number.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory that stores instructions for executing processes for creating a unique identification number to maintain customer privacy; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the processor to;

generate a first identification number based on vehicle information and a timestamp;

perform a first hashing function on the first identification number to create a second identification number;

perform a second hashing function on the second identification number and a customer identification number to create a third identification number;

transmit an allocation resource request to a third party provider, the allocation resource, request including the third identification number and a location of a vehicle; and

transmit a charging schedule to the vehicle upon receipt of a response to the allocation resource request from the third party provider, the response to the allocation resource request including the third identification number.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the processor to decode the response to the allocation resource request to identify the vehicle.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle information comprises a vehicle identification number (VIN), and the generating the first identification number comprises concatenating the VIN and the timestamp.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the timestamp comprises at least one of a date or a time of receipt of the VIN from the vehicle.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle information comprises a vehicle identification number (VIN), and the customer identification number is associated with the VIN and identifies an operator of the vehicle.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second hashing functions are a cryptographic hashing function.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the cryptographic hashing function is an SHA-2 algorithm (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) or SHA-3 algorithm (Secure Hash Algorithm 3).

8. A method comprising:

generating a first identification number based on vehicle information and a timestamp;

performing a first hashing function on the first identification number to create a second identification number;

performing a second hashing function on the second identification number and a customer identification number to create a third identification number;

transmitting an allocation resource request to a third party provider, the allocation resource request including the third identification number and a location of a vehicle; and

transmitting a charging schedule to the vehicle upon receipt of a response to the allocation resource request from the third party provider, the response to the allocation resource request including the third identification number.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising decoding the response to the allocation resource request to identify the vehicle.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the vehicle information comprises a vehicle identification number (VIN), and the generating the first identification number comprises concatenating the VIN and the timestamp.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the timestamp comprises at least one of a date or a time of receipt of the VIN from the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the vehicle information comprises a vehicle identification number (VIN), and the customer identification number is associated with the VIN and identifies an operator of the vehicle.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the first and second hashing functions are a cryptographic hashing function.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the cryptographic hashing function is an SHA-2 algorithm (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) or SHA-3 algorithm (Secure Hash Algorithm 3).

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing executable computer program code, the code comprising instructions configured to cause a processor to:

generate a first identification number based on vehicle information and a timestamp;

perform a first hashing function on the first identification number to create a second identification number;

perform a second hashing function on the second identification number and a customer identification number to create a third identification number;

transmit an allocation resource request to a third party provider, the allocation resource request including the third identification number and a location of a vehicle; and

transmit a charging schedule to the vehicle upon receipt of a response to the allocation resource request from the third party provider, the response to the allocation resource request including the third identification number.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions cause the processor to decode the response to the allocation resource request to identify the vehicle.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the vehicle information comprises a vehicle identification number (VIN), and the generating the first identification number comprises concatenating the VIN and the timestamp.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the vehicle information comprises a vehicle identification number (VIN), and the customer identification number is associated with the VIN and identifies an operator of the vehicle.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first and second hashing functions are a cryptographic hashing function.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the cryptographic hashing function is an SHA-2 algorithm (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) or SHA-3 algorithm (Secure Hash Algorithm 3).