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Method and system for automatically identifying a driver by creating a unique driver profile for a vehicle from driving habits

  • US 10,300,924 B2
  • Filed: 09/03/2018
  • Issued: 05/28/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for automatically identifying habits of a driver of a vehicle with a unique driver profile, comprising:

  • receiving a first request signal on ate electronic circuit with one or more processors on a portable on-board diagnostic series 2 (OBD-2) apparatus plugged into an OBD-2 port integral to a vehicle when the vehicle is turned on to determine with a unique driver profile, whether a driver may be intoxicated while driving the vehicle, the OBD-2 including the unique driver profile previously created and stored for the driver of the vehicle on the portable OBD-2 apparatus in a non-transitory computer readable medium on the OBD-2, the unique driver profile including unique behavior patterns for the driver of the vehicle collected from a plurality of individual components in a passenger compartment of the vehicle;

    receiving continuously a plurality of other event signals on the ODB-2 resulting from the driver operating the vehicle and resulting from a plurality of individual components of the vehicle uniquely configured by the driver and collected from one or more collection interfaces indicating current driving behavior patterns of the driver and current physical positions of selected ones of the plurality of individual components of the vehicle configured by the driver in the passenger compartment of the vehicle when driving the vehicle and a Global Positioning System (GPS) geo-location and time stamp data of the vehicle;

    conducting continuously a test on the ODB-2 to compare the received plurality of other event signals to those previously stored in the unique driver profile for the driver to determine whether the driver operating the vehicle may be intoxicated based on the unique behavior patterns for the driver of the vehicle stored in the unique driver profile,and if the driver operating the vehicle may be intoxicated,sending a first message from the ODB-2 via a wireless interface on the vehicle via a wireless communications network to an external network device with one or more processors indicating the driver operating the vehicle may be intoxicated.

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