SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE MONITORING

• US 20140009275A1
• Filed: 07/09/2012
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC), Nitto Denko Corporation
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Bowers, Jeffrey A., Deane, Geoffrey F., Hyde, Roderick A., Kundtz, Nathan, Myhrvold, Nathan P., Smith, David R., Tegreene, Clarence T., Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 9,000,903 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/436
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/00 Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor for lighting vehicle interior B60Q3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking

Abstract

A monitoring service is configured to receive monitoring data from one or more collision detection systems. The monitoring data may comprise collision detection information, such as a collision detection model, sensor data, data pertaining to potential collisions, data pertaining to collisions, vehicle identifier(s), and so on. The monitoring service may extract and/or derive indexing criteria from the monitoring data, and may store and/or index the monitoring data on a persistent storage. An entity may request monitoring data pertaining to a specified time, location, and/or vehicle. The monitoring service may respond to the request by identifying monitoring data that conforms with the request, and providing the identified monitoring data to the requesting entity. The monitoring service may issue collision notifications to emergency service entities and/or may provide collision alerts to vehicles in the vicinity of a collision.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving monitoring data of collision detection systems of a plurality of land vehicles;

storing the received monitoring data on a persistent storage; and

responding to a request to access the stored monitoring data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the request specifies a location and a time, and wherein responding to the request comprises identifying stored monitoring data pertaining to the specified location and time.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein identifying the stored monitoring data comprises comparing the location specified in the request with a location associated with the stored monitoring data and the time specified in the request with a time associated with the stored monitoring data.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

combining monitoring data of two or more different vehicles; and

storing the combined monitoring data on the persistent storage.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein combining the received monitoring data comprises identifying received monitoring data pertaining to the same location and time.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising indexing the received monitoring data.

22. The method of claim 1, further comprising indexing the received monitoring data by location.

23. The method of claim 1, further comprising indexing the received monitoring data by time.

24. The method of claim 1, further comprising indexing the received monitoring data by vehicle identifier.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein the received monitoring data comprises auxiliary data of a first land vehicle, the method further comprising:

extracting indexing criteria from the auxiliary data; and

indexing the received monitoring data using the extracted indexing criteria.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the auxiliary data comprises a location.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the auxiliary data comprises a velocity of the first land vehicle.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein the auxiliary data comprises an acceleration of the first land vehicle.

29. The method of claim 25, wherein the auxiliary data comprises an orientation of the first land vehicle.

30. The method of claim 25, wherein extracting the indexing criteria comprises extracting a time stamp from the received monitoring data.

31. The method of claim 30, further comprising:

translating the time stamp; and

indexing the received monitoring data using the translated time stamp.

32. The method of claim 25, wherein extracting the indexing criteria comprises accessing location information from the received monitoring data.

33. The method of claim 32, further comprising:

translating the location information; and

indexing the received monitoring data using the translated location information.

34. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deriving indexing criteria from the received monitoring data; and

indexing the received monitoring data using the derived indexing criteria.

2-5. -5. (canceled)

8-18. -18. (canceled)

35-71. -71. (canceled)

72. A system, comprising:

an intake module configured to receive monitoring data from collision detection systems and to store the received monitoring data on a persistent store; and

a query module configured to respond to a request to access the stored monitoring data.

115. The system of claim 72, wherein the request comprises an offer in exchange for responding to the request.

116. The system of claim 115, wherein the offer comprises a payment.

117. The system of claim 115, wherein the offer comprises a bid.

118. The system of claim 115, wherein the offer comprises access to monitoring data.

119. The system of claim 72, wherein responding to the request comprises transmitting a counter offer to a requesting entity.

120. The system of claim 119, wherein the counter offer comprises a payment amount.

131. The system of claim 72, further comprising a notification module configured to transmit a collision alert in response to determining that the received monitoring data indicates that a collision has occurred and/or is predicted to occur.

132. The system of claim 131, wherein the notification module is configured to transmit the collision alert to one or more of a land vehicle, pedestrian, and a mobile communication device.

133. The system of claim 131, wherein the collision alert comprises a location of the collision.

134. The system of claim 131, wherein the collision alert comprises a time of the collision.

139. The system of claim 131, wherein the collision alert comprises an identifier of an object involved in the collision.

142. The system of claim 131, wherein the notification module is configured to identify a vehicle within a proximity threshold of the collision, and to transmit the collision alert to the identified vehicle.

73-114. -114. (canceled)

121-130. -130. (canceled)

135-138. -138. (canceled)

140-141. -141. (canceled)

143. A machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions configured to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:

accessing information pertaining to a characteristic of a collision detection system of a vehicle; and

determining a property of an insurance policy based upon the characteristic of the collision detection system of the vehicle.

150. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, wherein the request comprises a vehicle identifier, and wherein responding to the request comprises identifying stored monitoring data associated with the vehicle identifier.

151. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, wherein responding to the request comprises translating monitoring data into a frame of reference of a requesting entity.

152. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, wherein responding to the request comprises converting monitoring data to a specified coordinate system.

163. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, the method further comprising indexing the received monitoring data.

164. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, the method further comprising indexing the received monitoring data by location.

165. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, the method further comprising indexing the received monitoring data by time.

166. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, the method further comprising indexing the received monitoring data by vehicle identifier.

192. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 143, the method further comprising transmitting a collision notification to an emergency services entity in response to determining that the received monitoring data indicates that a collision has occurred and/or is predicted to occur.

193. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 192, wherein the collision notification comprises a location of the collision.

144-149. -149. (canceled)

153-162. -162. (canceled)

167-191. -191. (canceled)

194-214. -214. (canceled)