GEOSPATIAL ASSET TRACKING SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING, MANIPULATING AND PRESENTING TELEMATIC METADATA

• US 20140357295A1
• Filed: 06/03/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Temeda, LLC
• Original Assignee: The Morey Corporation
• Inventors: SKOMRA, Stewart A., STURNIOLO, Emil, CICHIELO, Robert N., PIENCZYKOWSKI, Andrzej, ALLEN, Mark, DURAND, Julian A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,456,302 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A convenient, easy to use ubiquitous governance system to help manage and maintain the plurality of semi-autonomous devices that will be loosely coupled to and communicate via the Internet or other network, more commonly referred to as the network of things.

Claims

1. Apparatus for associating with an item, comprising:

a processor disposed and structured to receive inputs from at least one sensor; and

a non-transitory memory device storing instructions that when executed by the processor provide a trust engine that automatically securely maintains a trusted chain of custody with respect to activities associated with delivery of people, products and/or services.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a housing that is bound to an asset, wherein the processor and the trust engine it implements is disposed in the housing.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the memory device stores further instructions that when executed by the processor securely manages and executes downloadable applications.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a geographical locating sensor.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a biometrics sensor.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the processor is structured to securely receive inputs from the at least one sensor over a wireless link.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the processor is structured to securely authenticate and bind with an additional, portable device providing said at least one sensor.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the processor is structured to receive inputs wirelessly from the at least one sensor disposed in a handheld device.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the trust engine is structured to be securely managed and monitored remotely.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the trust engine is structured to execute secure intelligent agents of a remotely located management entity.

11. A system for cooperating with a user having a user device, the system comprising:

a sensor that monitors an asset;

at least one intelligent communicating device configured to provide a trusted intelligent agent that gathers information from the sensor;

the system being further comprising binding (a) the user to the user device, (b) the user device to intelligent communicating device, and (c) the user and the intelligent communicating device.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the system uses plural intelligent communicating devices to bind asset to asset.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the intelligent communicating device enables the system to continually monitor location and interactions, including chain of custody, of the asset over time.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the system provides binding based on proximity.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the user'"'"'s device includes a sensor that the system uses to create a trust bond with the intelligent communicating device.

16. The system of claim 11 wherein the intelligent communicating device is configured to be remotely securely dynamically updated/maintained/extended.

17. The system of claim 11 wherein the user device comprises a conventional smartphone or other handheld user device providing a user interface capability, and the intelligent communicating device employs the handheld user device user interface capability to interface with the user.

18. The system of claim 11 wherein the intelligent communicating device provides a root of trust within an integrated circuit chip which prevalidates a software environment before starting up.

19. The system of claim 11 wherein the intelligent communicating device provides a trusted environment and once the trusted environment is operational, the system continually validates the trusted environment for health and sanity.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein if the system determines the intelligent communicating device is not acting in accordance with a prescribed healthy device, the system quarantines the intelligent communicating device and then remediates the intelligent communicating device by a side channel that can be reinitialized in accordance with secure mechanism to bring the intelligent communicating device back to life.

21. The system of claim 11 wherein the system transforms a defensive node into an offensive mode that can be used to disrupt an existing infrastructure.

22. The system of claim 11 wherein the system uses frequency analysis and correlation on an engine or class of engines, based on rpm and other attributes, which may be correlated to vehicle OBD codes.

23. The system of claim 11 wherein the system dynamically defines behavior of the intelligent communicating device based on a set of facts from an asset to define an agent that is going to take an action, and uses historical data to generate an alert to detect variance between planned and actual activities.

24. The system of claim 11 wherein the intelligent communicating device is hardware mechanically fixable to the asset, or a secure software entity that is authenticated to a user, the asset comprises a container used to deliver people/products/services, and the intelligent communicating device monitors the geolocation, operation and/or condition of the asset and/or biometrics of the user.