Method for controlling conveyance of events by driver administrator of vehicles equipped with ELDs
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1. A method for controlling conveyance of event information in a tracking service provided to authorized users who track vehicles that use a plurality of electronic logging devices (ELDs), wherein an ELD administrator of the tracking service provides access to user accounts in a first database management system application (DBMSA) executed by one or more central or distributed servers that provide user interfaces to the authorized users to log into to their respective user accounts, said DBMSA having access to a first database (DB) that identifies the ELDs by corresponding ELD IDs, the vehicles by corresponding Vehicles IDs (VIDs), the authorized users including drivers of a group of vehicles by corresponding User IDs (UIDs), and the group by a group ID (GID), wherein a Driver administrator of the group is given a privilege to access an administrator account in the first DBSMA by the ELD administrator, the method comprising the steps of:
- a. interfacing over one or more wireless networks with the plurality of ELDs including a first ELD and a second ELD that are respectively identified by a first ELD ID and a second ELD ID, wherein each ELD comprises one or more processors that execute a location tracking application (LTA), said each ELD being configured to;
i. receive a power up sensor information from one or more sensors that indicate a vehicle in the group that uses the ELD is powered up by a driver of the vehicle, said power up sensor information being received in order to record one or more driving events after the driver logs into a driver user account via the ELD;
ii. periodically receive location information from a location information source (LIS) used by the ELD;
iii. log location information received from the LIS, said location information indicating where driving event conditions for occurrence of driving events are met;
iv. record a driving event information related to a first driving event that occurs based on a first driving event condition, wherein the recorded driving event information comprises a logged location information that indicates where the first driving event occurs;
v. provide a log-in interface via the LTA that allows the driver to log into the driver user account in the first DBMSA with a driver user ID and a driver password to access the recorded driving event, andvi. provide an ELD interface via the LTA that allows the driver to edit the recorded driving event information after the driver logs into the driver user account; and
b. interfacing over one or more wired or wireless networks with a computing device that is configured to enable the Driver administrator to log into the administrator account by providing an administrator ID and an administrator password in order to;
i. identify a first vehicle by a first VID and a second vehicle by a second VID, said first VID and second VID being associated with the GID,ii. specify a first authorized user identified by a first UID as a first driver of the first vehicle which uses the first ELD,iii. specify a second authorized user identified by a second UID as a second driver of the second vehicle which uses the second ELD, andiv. specify one or more recipients who are authorized to receive recorded driving event information;
c. receiving a first recorded driving event information from the first ELD containing the first UID;
d. receiving a second recorded driving event information from the second ELD containing the second UID driver; and
e. sending notifications to one or more recipients who are authorized by the Driver administrator to receive the first recorded driving event information or the second recorded driving event information.
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Abstract
An improved system and method for defining an event based upon an object location and a user-defined zone and managing the conveyance of object location event information among computing devices where object location events are defined in terms of a condition based upon a relationship between user-defined zone information and object location information. One or more location information sources are associated with an object to provide the object location information. One or more user-defined zones are defined on a map and one or more object location events are defined. The occurrence of an object location event produces object location event information that is conveyed to users based on user identification codes. Accessibility to object location information, zone information, and object location event information is based upon an object location information access code, a zone information access code, and an object location event information access code, respectively.
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1. A method for controlling conveyance of event information in a tracking service provided to authorized users who track vehicles that use a plurality of electronic logging devices (ELDs), wherein an ELD administrator of the tracking service provides access to user accounts in a first database management system application (DBMSA) executed by one or more central or distributed servers that provide user interfaces to the authorized users to log into to their respective user accounts, said DBMSA having access to a first database (DB) that identifies the ELDs by corresponding ELD IDs, the vehicles by corresponding Vehicles IDs (VIDs), the authorized users including drivers of a group of vehicles by corresponding User IDs (UIDs), and the group by a group ID (GID), wherein a Driver administrator of the group is given a privilege to access an administrator account in the first DBSMA by the ELD administrator, the method comprising the steps of:
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a. interfacing over one or more wireless networks with the plurality of ELDs including a first ELD and a second ELD that are respectively identified by a first ELD ID and a second ELD ID, wherein each ELD comprises one or more processors that execute a location tracking application (LTA), said each ELD being configured to; i. receive a power up sensor information from one or more sensors that indicate a vehicle in the group that uses the ELD is powered up by a driver of the vehicle, said power up sensor information being received in order to record one or more driving events after the driver logs into a driver user account via the ELD; ii. periodically receive location information from a location information source (LIS) used by the ELD; iii. log location information received from the LIS, said location information indicating where driving event conditions for occurrence of driving events are met; iv. record a driving event information related to a first driving event that occurs based on a first driving event condition, wherein the recorded driving event information comprises a logged location information that indicates where the first driving event occurs; v. provide a log-in interface via the LTA that allows the driver to log into the driver user account in the first DBMSA with a driver user ID and a driver password to access the recorded driving event, and vi. provide an ELD interface via the LTA that allows the driver to edit the recorded driving event information after the driver logs into the driver user account; and b. interfacing over one or more wired or wireless networks with a computing device that is configured to enable the Driver administrator to log into the administrator account by providing an administrator ID and an administrator password in order to; i. identify a first vehicle by a first VID and a second vehicle by a second VID, said first VID and second VID being associated with the GID, ii. specify a first authorized user identified by a first UID as a first driver of the first vehicle which uses the first ELD, iii. specify a second authorized user identified by a second UID as a second driver of the second vehicle which uses the second ELD, and iv. specify one or more recipients who are authorized to receive recorded driving event information; c. receiving a first recorded driving event information from the first ELD containing the first UID; d. receiving a second recorded driving event information from the second ELD containing the second UID driver; and e. sending notifications to one or more recipients who are authorized by the Driver administrator to receive the first recorded driving event information or the second recorded driving event information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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