METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS

• US 20200137165A1
• Filed: 10/31/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated (MasterCard Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated (MasterCard Incorporated)
• Inventors: Garg, Chandan, Dwivedi, Alok Kumar, Mallik, Aishwarya
• Granted Patent: US 11,064,027 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/42 Anonymization, e.g. involving pseudonyms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/84 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0637 Modes of operation, e.g. cipher block chaining [CBC], electronic codebook [ECB] or Galois/counter mode [GCM]
• 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 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 Hardware identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A method for dynamic license plate renumbering includes: identifying, by a processing device of a processing server, a new plate number for a dynamic license plate; storing, by the processing server, the identified new plate number in a data entry with a vehicle identifier associated with the dynamic license plate; transmitting, by a transmitter of the processing server, the identified new plate number to the dynamic license plate; and displaying, on a display device of the dynamic license plate, the new plate number.

Claims

1. A method for dynamic license plate renumbering, comprising:

identifying, by a processing device of a processing server, a new plate number for a dynamic license plate;

storing, by the processing server, the identified new plate number in a data entry with a vehicle identifier associated with the dynamic license plate;

transmitting, by a transmitter of the processing server, the identified new plate number to the dynamic license plate; and

displaying, on a display device of the dynamic license plate, the new plate number.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the receiver of the processing server, a number request associated with the dynamic license plate where the number request includes at least the vehicle identifier, wherein

the new plate number is identified following receipt of the number request.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the number request is received from the dynamic license plate.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the number request is received from a computing device separate from the dynamic license plate.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the new plate number is identified after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since identification of a prior plate number associated with the dynamic license plate.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

the data entry is included in a new block that is added to a blockchain, and

the blockchain is comprised of a plurality of blocks, where each block includes at least a block header and one or more data values, each data value including a dynamic plate number and a corresponding vehicle identifier.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the data entry further includes a digital signature associated with the dynamic license plate.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein

the digital signature is generated using a private key of a cryptographic key pair associated with the dynamic license plate, and

the private key is stored in a memory of the license plate.

9. A system for dynamic license plate renumbering, comprising:

a processing device of a processing server configured to identify a new plate number for a dynamic license plate;

the processing server configured to store the identified new plate number in a data entry with a vehicle identifier associated with the dynamic license plate;

a transmitter of the processing server configured to transmit the identified new plate number to the dynamic license plate; and

a display device of the dynamic license plate configured to display the new plate number.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein

the receiver of the processing server is further configured to receive a number request associated with the dynamic license plate where the number request includes at least the vehicle identifier, and

the new plate number is identified following receipt of the number request.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the number request is received from the dynamic license plate.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the number request is received from a computing device separate from the dynamic license plate.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the new plate number is identified after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since identification of a prior plate number associated with the dynamic license plate.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein

the data entry is included in a new block that is added to a blockchain, and

the blockchain is comprised of a plurality of blocks, where each block includes at least a block header and one or more data values, each data value including a dynamic plate number and a corresponding vehicle identifier.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the data entry further includes a digital signature associated with the dynamic license plate.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein

the digital signature is generated using a private key of a cryptographic key pair associated with the dynamic license plate, and

the private key is stored in a memory of the license plate.