System and Method for Vehicle Alerts, Notifications and Messaging Communications

• US 20150127730A1
• Filed: 11/15/2013
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shahar Sean Aviv
• Original Assignee: Shahar Sean Aviv
• Inventors: Aviv, Shahar Sean
• Application Number:
  US14/080,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20150127730A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

A method, system, a computer program product, and mobile device application product that uses vehicle license plate information (license plate State, Number, and/or other information) and user location information (IP address, Mobile GPS, etc.) to send real-time alerts, notifications, or messages to individual users, organizations, external systems, and/or any other entity and/or third party systems.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

creating a database in a storage medium, the database comprising records for entities associated with license plate data;

a network server receiving, from a first computing device, a communication including license plate data from a user reporting a vehicle condition and/or a vehicle related event;

the network server searching the database based on the received license plate data to locate a matching entity and/or matching record;

the network server sending a message to a second computing device associated with the matched entity, the message generated as a result of the communication received by the network server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining the license plate data from an image file or device camera captured image.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

converting the image file to text by means of an optical character recognition program.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication includes user location information.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the user location information comprises GPS data.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the user location information comprises an IP address.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is sent by the network server to a third party system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is sent by the network server in real time.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the network server sending multiple messages at a predetermined time.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the license plate data is manually entered into the first computing device by the user reporting the vehicle condition.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the license plate data is obtained as an image file by a device camera in the first computing device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the image file is converted to text by an optical character recognition (OCR) program.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication includes an image file showing the condition of the vehicle.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication is a preset message selected by the user.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication is free text entered by the user.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the network server stores the communication and records the time that the communication was received.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second computing devices are selected from the group consisting of cellular phones, smart phones, computer systems, personal computers (PCs), tablets, and personal digital assistants (PDAs).

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the network server sends the message via a communication mode selected from the group consisting of e-mail, SMS, MMS, mobile app notification, application programming interface (API) and external system integration.

19. A system, comprising:

a database containing entities associated with license plate data, the database stored in a storage medium;

a first computing device configured to send a communication including vehicle license plate data to a network server; and

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a network server configured to;

receive the license plate data from the first computing device;

search the database to find a matching entity; and

send a message to a second computing device associated with the matched entity, the message being related to the communication.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the matched entity is the owner of the vehicle and/or any individuals or entities associated with the vehicle.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the communication includes user location information.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the user location information comprises GPS data.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the user location information comprises an IP address.

24. A system, comprising:

a database containing entities associated with license plate data, the database stored in a storage medium;

a first computing device configured to send a communication including license plate data from a vehicle to a network server; and

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a network server configured to;

receive the license plate data from the first computing device; and

search the database to find a matching entity;

means for sending a message to a second computing device associated with the matched entity, the message being generated as a result of the communication.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the second computing device is associated with a third party system.