DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING REMOTELY CAPTURED SENSOR DATA

• US 20190020973A1
• Filed: 07/06/2018
• Published: 01/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate Corporation)
• Inventors: Harish, Pratheek Mylanahalli, Yeomans, Benjamin Robertson, Herrmann, Alexander, Schmitt, Kyle Patrick
• Granted Patent: US 10,388,085 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• 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: G07C 5/02 : Registering or indicating driving, working, idle, or waiting time only apparatus forming part of taximeters G07B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 : using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 : from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 : in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 : specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 : specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 : Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
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• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 : for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 : for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing remotely captured sensor data. A computing platform having at least one processor, a communication interface, and memory may receive, via the communication interface, from a user computing device, sensor data captured by the user computing device using one or more sensors built into the user computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may analyze the sensor data received from the user computing device by executing one or more data processing modules. Then, the computing platform may generate trip record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the trip record data in a trip record database. In addition, the computing platform may generate user record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the user record data in a user record database.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

at least one processor;

a communication interface; and

memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to;

receive, via the communication interface, from a data processing computing platform, first provisioning information;

monitor first sensor data associated with one or more sensors built into the computing device based on the first provisioning information received from the data processing computing platform;

based on monitoring the first sensor data associated with the one or more sensors built into the computing device, detect that a first trip has started, the first trip corresponding to movement of the computing device from a first location to a second location; and

in response to detecting that the first trip has started, wake a data recording process on the computing device, wherein waking the data recording process on the computing device causes the computing device to capture and store second sensor data received from the one or more sensors built into the computing device while the first trip is occurring.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein receiving the first provisioning information from the data processing computing platform comprises receiving configuration information that is generated by the data processing computing platform and that is specific to a specific user of the computing device.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein receiving the first provisioning information from the data processing computing platform comprises receiving configuration information that is generated by the data processing computing platform and that is specific to a current location of the computing device.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein receiving the first provisioning information from the data processing computing platform comprises receiving a geo-fence configuration file from the data processing computing platform, the geo-fence configuration file comprising configuration information defining at least one geo-fence around each place of interest of a first set of one or more places of interest associated with a specific user of the computing device.

5. The computing device of claim 4, wherein the geo-fence configuration file is generated by the data processing computing platform based on analyzing sensor data received from the computing device and captured by the computing device using one or more sensors built into the computing device.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein monitoring the first sensor data associated with the one or more sensors built into the computing device comprises analyzing sensor data received from a subset of the one or more sensors built into the computing device while operating in a passive processing state.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein detecting that the first trip has started comprises determining that a first geo-fence of one or more geo-fences defined in a geo-fence configuration file received from the data processing computing platform has been broken.

8. The computing device of claim 7, wherein determining that the first geo-fence of the one or more geo-fences defined in the geo-fence configuration file received from the data processing computing platform has been broken comprises determining that a last-known-location geo-fence defined in the geo-fence configuration file received from the data processing computing platform has been broken.

9. The computing device of claim 7, wherein determining that the first geo-fence of the one or more geo-fences defined in the geo-fence configuration file received from the data processing computing platform has been broken comprises determining that a places-of-interest geo-fence defined in the geo-fence configuration file received from the data processing computing platform has been broken.

10. The computing device of claim 7, wherein determining that the first geo-fence of the one or more geo-fences defined in the geo-fence configuration file received from the data processing computing platform has been broken comprises determining that a frequently-visited-location geo-fence defined in the geo-fence configuration file received from the data processing computing platform has been broken.

11. The computing device of claim 1, wherein detecting that the first trip has started comprises determining that a vehicle trip has started based on analyzing the first sensor data associated with the one or more sensors built into the computing device.

12. The computing device of claim 1, wherein waking the data recording process on the computing device comprises recording data captured by one or more of an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, a barometer, a gravitometer, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, an ambient temperature sensor, an orientation sensor, a pedometer, an altimeter, a satellite positioning sensor, or an activity recognition sensor built into the computing device.

13. The computing device of claim 12, wherein waking the data recording process on the computing device causes the computing device to send at least a portion of the second sensor data received from the one or more sensors built into the computing device to the data processing computing platform in real-time while the first trip is occurring.

14. The computing device of claim 12, wherein waking the data recording process on the computing device causes the computing device to send at least a portion of the second sensor data received from the one or more sensors built into the computing device to the data processing computing platform when the first trip is completed.

15. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the memory stores additional computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to:

detect that the first trip has ended; and

based on detecting that the first trip has ended, send, via the communication interface, to the data processing computing platform, a notification comprising information indicating that the first trip has ended,

wherein sending the notification comprising the information indicating that the first trip has ended causes the data processing computing platform to generate and send second provisioning information to the computing device, the second provisioning information being associated with an ending location of the first trip.

16. A method, comprising:

at a computing device comprising at least one processor, a communication interface, and memory;

receiving, by the at least one processor, via the communication interface, from a data processing computing platform, first provisioning information;

monitoring, by the at least one processor, first sensor data associated with one or more sensors built into the computing device based on the first provisioning information received from the data processing computing platform;

based on monitoring the first sensor data associated with the one or more sensors built into the computing device, detecting, by the at least one processor, that a first trip has started, the first trip corresponding to movement of the computing device from a first location to a second location; and

in response to detecting that the first trip has started, waking, by the at least one processor, a data recording process on the computing device, wherein waking the data recording process on the computing device causes the computing device to capture and store second sensor data received from the one or more sensors built into the computing device while the first trip is occurring.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the first provisioning information from the data processing computing platform comprises receiving configuration information that is generated by the data processing computing platform and that is specific to a specific user of the computing device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the first provisioning information from the data processing computing platform comprises receiving configuration information that is generated by the data processing computing platform and that is specific to a current location of the computing device.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the first provisioning information from the data processing computing platform comprises receiving a geo-fence configuration file from the data processing computing platform, the geo-fence configuration file comprising configuration information defining at least one geo-fence around each place of interest of a first set of one or more places of interest associated with a specific user of the computing device.

20. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, a communication interface, and memory, cause the computing device to:

receive, via the communication interface, from a data processing computing platform, first provisioning information;

monitor first sensor data associated with one or more sensors built into the computing device based on the first provisioning information received from the data processing computing platform;

based on monitoring the first sensor data associated with the one or more sensors built into the computing device, detect that a first trip has started, the first trip corresponding to movement of the computing device from a first location to a second location; and

in response to detecting that the first trip has started, wake a data recording process on the computing device, wherein waking the data recording process on the computing device causes the computing device to capture and store second sensor data received from the one or more sensors built into the computing device while the first trip is occurring.