Vehicle telematics and account management

• US 10,482,685 B1
• Filed: 07/27/2017
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arity International Limited (Allstate Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Arity International Limited (Allstate Corporation)
• Inventors: Iqbal, Imran, Gopalan, Srinath, Saban, Yuval
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Shardul D
• Application Number:
  US15/661,748
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• Field of Search: 701 315, 701 70, 701 326, 455417, 455418, 4554122
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/10 Historical data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/09 Driving style or behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/04 Access control involving a hierarchy in access rights
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means

Abstract

Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system that may facilitate communications so that parents or other superiors may monitor driving behavior of a vehicle carrying children or other subordinates. The system may allow communications to be sent from a parent computing device to a particular child computing device to set conditions for notifying the parent or superior of the driving behavior of a vehicle. Child computing devices may collect drive data (e.g., vehicle telematics data) for the system to evaluate and determine whether conditions are met (e.g., whether parental restrictions, like a geo-fence, are violated). Further, the system may send notifications to child computing devices and parent computing devices indicating whether the drive data meets the conditions of an agreement between a parent and teen. The system may also provide a web portal for use in forming the agreement between parents and their teens.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a first computing device associated with a first user in a vehicle, the first computing device configured to;

transmit, via an application executing on the first computing device, data representing a driving behavior of the vehicle;

transmit, to a second computing device, a notification indicating that the first computing device received a user selection to terminate the application, the notification further indicating that the first computing device will stop transmitting additional data; and

the second computing device, the second computing device associated with a second user and configured to receive the data and to receive the notification.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first computing device is further configured to:

receive data identifying a geographical region;

determine a current location of the vehicle; and

responsive to determining that the current location of the vehicle is outside of the geographical region, transmit a second notification to the second computing device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first computing device is further configured to:

receive data identifying an updated geographical region; and

output an alert, via a graphical interface, wherein the alert identifies the updated geographical region.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first computing device is further configured to:

receive data identifying a plurality of geographical driving routes;

determine a current location of the vehicle; and

responsive to determining that the current location of the vehicle is not located on any of the plurality of geographical driving routes, transmit a second notification to the second computing device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first computing device is further configured to:

receive data identifying a threshold speed;

determine a current speed of the vehicle;

compare the current speed of the vehicle with the threshold speed; and

responsive to determining that the current speed of the vehicle is greater than the threshold speed, transmit a second notification to the second computing device.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the first computing device is further configured to:

receive data identifying an updated threshold speed; and

output an alert identifying the updated threshold speed.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the first computing device is further configured to:

terminate, in response to receiving the user selection, the application; and

automatically re-launch the application after a predetermined time period.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification further indicates a power level of a battery of the first computing device.

9. A method, comprising:

transmitting, via an application executing on a first computing device associated with a first user in a vehicle, data representing a driving behavior of the vehicle; and

transmitting, by the first computing device and to a second computing device, a notification indicating that the first computing device received a user selection to terminate the application, the notification further indicating that the first computing device will stop transmitting additional data.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving data identifying a geographical region;

determining a current location of the vehicle; and

responsive to determining that the current location of the vehicle is outside of the geographical region, transmitting a second notification to the second computing device.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving data identifying an updated geographical region; and

outputting an alert, via a graphical interface, wherein the alert identifies the updated geographical region.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving data identifying a plurality of geographical driving routes;

determining a current location of the vehicle; and

responsive to determining that the current location of the vehicle is not located on any of the plurality of geographical driving routes, transmitting a second notification to the second computing device.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving data identifying a threshold speed;

determining a current speed of the vehicle;

comparing the current speed of the vehicle with the threshold speed; and

responsive to determining that the current speed of the vehicle is greater than the threshold speed, transmitting a second notification to the second computing device.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving data identifying an updated threshold speed; and

outputting an alert identifying the updated threshold speed.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

terminating, in response to receiving the user selection, the application; and

automatically re-launching the application after a predetermined time period.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the notification further indicates a power level of a battery of the first computing device.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a first computing device to:

transmit, via an application executing on the first computing device, data representing a driving behavior of a vehicle; and

transmit, to a second computing device, a notification indicating that the first computing device received a user selection to terminate the application, the notification further indicating that the first computing device will stop transmitting additional data.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, further cause the first computing device to:

receive data identifying a geographical region;

determine a current location of the vehicle; and

responsive to determining that the current location of the vehicle is outside of the geographical region, transmit a second notification to the second computing device.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, further cause the first computing device to:

receive data identifying an updated geographical region; and

output an alert, via a graphical interface, wherein the alert identifies the updated geographical region.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, further cause the first computing device to

receive data identifying a plurality of geographical driving routes;

determine a current location of the vehicle; and

responsive to determining that the current location of the vehicle is not located on any of the plurality of geographical driving routes, transmit a second notification to the second computing device.