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Vehicle sharing tool based on vehicle condition assessments

  • US 10,140,782 B2
  • Filed: 10/07/2013
  • Issued: 11/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for assessing potential operators of a shared vehicle comprising:

  • receiving, via a computer network, a vehicle operator enrollment from a user, wherein the vehicle operator enrollment includes;

    (i) information identifying an operated vehicle, the operated vehicle operated by the user in the past, and (ii) information requesting future use of the shared vehicle, wherein the shared vehicle is different from the operated vehicle;

    retrieving, by one or more processors, condition data corresponding to the operated vehicle from a condition database, the condition data including a plurality of points in time, a current condition of the operated vehicle at each of the plurality of points in time, and an indication of an operator of the operated vehicle at each of the plurality of points in time,wherein a plurality of devices inside the operated vehicle generated at least some of the condition data while the operated vehicle was being operated by the user, the plurality of devices including a motion sensor;

    wherein the condition data includes movement data within the operated vehicle collected by the motion sensor;

    analyzing, by the one or more processors, the condition data to identify a user operated cluster corresponding to a first subset of the plurality of points in time wherein the condition data indicates that the operated vehicle was operated by the user;

    analyzing, by the one or more processors, the movement data within the user operated cluster to determine that the user or a passenger was eating food in the operated vehicle;

    determining, by the one or more processors, a correlation between the user operating the operated vehicle and a change in a condition of the operated vehicle by identifying a change in the current condition of the operated vehicle over the first subset of the plurality of points in time within the user operated cluster, wherein the change in the condition of the operated vehicle includes;

    (i) a depreciation of the operated vehicle based on a presence of food within the operated vehicle, wherein the depreciation indicates a change in at least one of a market value or a trade-in value of the operated vehicle, and(ii) a change in interior condition of the operated vehicle based on the presence of food within the operated vehicle;

    generating a report, by the one or more processors, wherein the report includes a visual representation of the correlation between the user operating the operated vehicle and the change in the condition of the operated vehicle; and

    communicating, via the computer network, the report to a remote computing device for presentation to a party authorized to grant the requested future use of the shared vehicle.

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