Methods and apparatus for automatic internet logging and social comparison of vehicular driving behavior
First Claim
1. A method comprising the following steps, in combination:
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vehicular data about the position and operation of a plurality of vehicles,location data relating to businesses or other points of interest within a specified geographic distance of at least one route traveled by at least one of said vehicles, andpreference data indicating preferences of a plurality of users, respectively, processing said vehicular, location and preference data, andautomatically outputting instructions for selectively sharing, in accordance with said user preferences, information comprising or derived at least in part from said vehicular data.
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Abstract
In exemplary implementations of this invention, data regarding the position and operation of a vehicle is gathered by a GPS unit and an On Board Diagnostic (“OBD”) port, respectively. This data is wirelessly transmitted by a wireless transceiver located in the vehicle. The transmitted data from multiple vehicles is received by a remote processor. The data is processed and selectively shared with users of a public web interface, in accordance with user preferences. A user selects the type of data that may be shared and the specified persons, classes of persons or public with whom particular data or types of data may be shared. In some cases, data gathered by the OBD ports and GPS units is transmitted to a host server of a social network, and selectively shared over the social network in accordance with that network'"'"'s policies.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising the following steps, in combination:
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obtaining; vehicular data about the position and operation of a plurality of vehicles, location data relating to businesses or other points of interest within a specified geographic distance of at least one route traveled by at least one of said vehicles, and preference data indicating preferences of a plurality of users, respectively, processing said vehicular, location and preference data, and automatically outputting instructions for selectively sharing, in accordance with said user preferences, information comprising or derived at least in part from said vehicular data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method comprising the following steps, in combination:
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obtaining; data about the position and operation of a plurality of vehicles, data relating to businesses or other points of interest within a specified geographic distance of at least one route traveled by at least one of said vehicles, and selectively outputting, in accordance with user preferences, signals for transmission directly or indirectly to a host server of a social network, wherein said signals are indicative of outputted data comprising or derived from all or some of said inputted data. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. Apparatus comprising, in combination:
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a GPS unit for gathering positional data about the position of a vehicle, a processor for outputting data comprising or derived from said positional data, and at least one wireless transmitter or transceiver for transmitting said outputted data directly or indirectly to a host server for processing said outputted data and selectively sharing on a public web interface, and in accordance with user preferences, information comprising or derived from said outputted data, in such a way that only some of the public logged in users of said web interface have access to said information. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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