Method for verification via information processing

• US 20080222709A1
• Filed: 03/05/2007
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: VanRiper, Ryan A., Johnson, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,703 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/042 using inductive or magnetic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

Identification servers are small, perhaps embedded, systems that can be used as subsystems of a tracking and verification system. An identification server can obtain identification data when a trigger, called an identification event, occurs. The identification server can store the identification data in a database module with a key. The identification server can send a message containing the identification data or the key to a set of subscribing clients. Subscribing clients, such as a central database or a graphical user interface, are clients that subscribe to receive messages from the identification server. An identification server can trigger off of an identification message sent by another identification server.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least two subscribing clients wherein one subscribing client is a central database server and another subscribing client is a graphical user interface;

one or more messages each comprising at least one data packet transmitted over a communications network wherein the messages comprise one or more id messages;

one or more identification servers each comprising an input module and a server module wherein an identification event triggers the input module to obtain identification data and wherein obtaining the identification data triggers the server module to send one of the id messages to at least one of the subscribing clients.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the id messages comprise the identification data.

3. The system of claim 1:

wherein the identification servers each further comprise a database module;

wherein the database modules store the identification data in association with identifiers;

wherein the id messages comprise the identifiers; and

wherein the identification servers send a response message comprising the identification data after receiving a request message comprising the identifier.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein one of the identification servers is a driver'"'"'s license server comprising a driver'"'"'s license reader.

5. The system of claim 1:

wherein one of the identification servers is a road loop server comprising a road loop sensor; and

wherein sensing a vehicle in the road loop is the identification event.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein one of the identification servers is a license plate server and wherein the input module comprises a license plate camera.

7. The system of claim 6:

wherein one of the identification servers is a license plate server comprising a license plate camera;

wherein another one of the identification servers is a road loop server that comprises a road loop sensor as the input module, sensing a vehicle as the identification event, and the license plate server as one of the subscribing clients; and

wherein receiving the id message from the road loop server is license plate server'"'"'s identification event.

8. A system comprising:

at least two subscribing clients wherein one subscribing client is a central database server and another subscribing client is a graphical user interface;

one or more messages each comprising at least one data packet transmitted over a communications network wherein the messages comprise one or more id messages;

two or more identification servers comprising an input module and a server module wherein one or more of the identification servers are simple servers, wherein one or more of the identification servers are processing servers, wherein each of the identification servers has one or more subscribing clients, and wherein the identification servers receive identification events;

wherein at least one of the identification events trigger a simple server to obtain identification data to send one of the id messages to the simple server'"'"'s subscribing clients; and

wherein a processing server further comprises a processing module wherein at least one of the identification events trigger the processing server to obtain raw data, processes the raw data to produce identification data, and to send one of the id messages to the processing server'"'"'s subscribing clients.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the id messages comprise the identification data.

10. The system of claim 8:

wherein the identification servers each further comprise a database module;

wherein the database modules store the identification data in association with identifiers;

wherein the id messages comprise the identifiers; and

wherein the identification servers send a response message comprising the identification data after receiving a request message comprising the identifier.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein one of the identification servers is a driver'"'"'s license server comprising a driver'"'"'s license reader.

12. The system of claim 8:

wherein one of the simple servers is a road loop server that comprises a road loop sensor; and

wherein sensing a vehicle in the road loop is the identification event.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein one of the processing servers is a license plate server comprising a license plate camera that takes a license plate image, wherein the processing module comprises an image processing module that processes the license plate image to obtain a plate number, and wherein the identification data comprises the plate number.

14. The system of claim 13:

wherein one of the simple servers is a road loop server that comprises a road loop sensor and wherein sensing a vehicle is the road loop sensor'"'"'s identification event;

wherein the license plate server subscribes to the road loop sensor; and

wherein the license plate server'"'"'s identification event is the identification message sent by the road loop server.

15. A method comprising:

waiting for an identification event;

receiving the identification event;

obtaining identification data; and

sending an id message to at least one of at least two subscribing clients wherein one subscribing client is a central database server and another subscribing client is a graphical user interface.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the id message comprises the identification data.

17. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

storing the identification data in a database module in association with a key wherein the id message comprises the key; and

receiving a request message comprising the key; and

sending a response message comprising the identification data.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein the identification data is obtained by a driver'"'"'s license reader that reads a driver'"'"'s license.

19. The method of claim 15 wherein sensing a vehicle in a road loop is the identification event and wherein the identification data indicates that a vehicle is present in the road loop.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein the identification event triggers a license plate camera to take a picture of a license plate.