Method and system for authenticating a driver for driver compliance

• US 10,255,606 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2018
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: J J Keller & Associates Incorporated
• Original Assignee: J J Keller & Associates Incorporated
• Inventors: Harter, Thomas C., Kuphal, Michael K., Lightner, Bruce D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Allen T
• Application Number:
  US16/114,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20180365705A1
• Time in Patent Office: 224 Days
• Field of Search: 340 58- 585
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/07 providing data for correcting measured positioning data, e.g. DGPS [differential GPS] or ionosphere corrections
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• 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: H04M 1/00 Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers subscriber services or facilities provided at exchanges H04M3/00; prepayment telephone coin boxes H04M17/00; current supply arrangements H04M19/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 Hardware identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• 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

Method and apparatus for authenticating a driver for driver compliance. A base unit including an electronic processor configured to receive an identification of a portable communication device associated with a driver, determine if the portable communication device is within a configurable distance from the base unit, compare the identification of the portable communication device with a stored identification, and authenticate the driver in response to the portable communication device associated with the driver being within a configurable distance from the base unit and based on identification of the portable communication device associated with the driver being a match with the stored identification.

Claims

1. A method for authenticating a driver for driver compliance, the method comprising:

receiving, with a base unit, an identification of a portable communication device associated with the driver;

comparing, with the base unit, the identification of the portable communication device with a stored identification; and

authenticating, with the base unit, the driver, in response to the portable communication device associated with the driver being within a configurable distance from the base unit and based on the identification of the portable communication device associated with the driver being a match with the stored identification.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein authenticating the driver further comprises:

determining a location of the portable communication device associated with the driver in relation to the base unit.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining the location of the portable communication device associated with the driver in relation to the base unit includes:

determining a first set of global positioning satellite coordinates associated with the portable communication device, and

determining a second set of global positioning satellite coordinates associated with the base unit.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

comparing a distance between the first set of global positioning satellite coordinates and the second set of global positioning satellite coordinates to the configurable distance of the portable communication device from the base unit.

5. A base unit, the base unit comprising:

an electronic processor configured to

receive an identification of a portable communication device associated with a driver,

determine if the portable communication device is within a configurable distance from the base unit,

compare the identification of the portable communication device with a stored identification, and

authenticate the driver in response to the portable communication device associated with the driver being within a configurable distance from the base unit and based on the identification of the portable communication device associated with the driver being a match with the stored identification.

6. The base unit of claim 5, wherein the electronic processor is further configured to

receive the identification of the portable communication device via a wireless communication channel between the portable communication device and the base unit.

7. The base unit of claim 6, wherein the electronic processor is further configured to

determine a location of the portable communication device associated with the driver in relation to the base unit.

8. The base unit of claim 7, wherein the electronic processor is further configured to

determine a first set of global positioning satellite coordinates associated with the portable communication device,

determine a second set of global positioning satellite coordinates associated with the base unit, and

compare the first set of global positioning satellite coordinates and the second set of global positioning satellite coordinates.

9. The base unit of claim 8, wherein the electronic processor is further configured to

compare a distance between the first set of global positioning satellite coordinates and the second set of global positioning satellite coordinates to the configurable distance of the portable communication device from the base unit.