Identifying a network record corresponding to a particular routing event

• US 8,583,370 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2012
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Camacho, Esteban, Waldner, Matthew R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Mary
• Application Number:
  US13/344,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20130179071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 701/400, 701/409, 701/410, 701/420, 701/424, 701/425, 701/446, 701/465, 701/468, 707/999.003, 707/999.006
• US Class Current: 701/468
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence

Abstract

A method for associating routing event records with network records in a system including a GPS device, the method including: receiving, from the GPS device, a route request; sending, to the GPS device, route information corresponding to a route calculated based on the route request; storing, in a database, a routing event record corresponding to the sending of the route information; comparing a parameter of the routing event record with a corresponding parameter of a network record generated by a wireless carrier to determine whether the network record matches up with the routing event record; and associating the routing event record with the matched network record.

Claims

1. A method for associating routing event records with network records in a system including a GPS (Global Positioning System)-based navigation aid device, comprising:

receiving, from the GPS device, a route request;

sending, to the GPS device, route information corresponding to a route calculated based on the route request;

storing, in a database, a routing event record generated by a call center corresponding to the sending of the route information in response to the route request, the routing event record including at least one of time information indicating when the route information was sent to the GPS device and size information indicating size of the route information sent to the GPS device;

comparing at least one of the time information and the size information of the routing event record with information of a network record generated by a wireless carrier network corresponding to the route information being sent to the GPS device to determine that the network record matches up with the routing event record; and

associating the routing event record with the determined corresponding network record.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the association is performed by the call center, and the network record is received by the call center from the wireless carrier.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

rectifying timestamps of the routing event record and the network record.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing further comprises:

determining that a timestamp of the network record is closest in time to a timestamp of the routing event record relative to other network records and within a threshold time period in relation to the timestamp of the routing event record.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing further comprises:

determining that at least one of time information and size information of the network record is within a range of the at least one of time information and size information of the routing event record.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing further comprises:

comparing a combination of routing event records, including the routing event record, with the network record.

7. A method for associating network records with routing event records in a system including a GPS (Global Positioning System)-based navigation aid device, comprising:

receiving a routing event record generated by a call center corresponding to the sending of route information by a call center to the GPS device in response to a route request to the call center from the GPS device, the routing event record including at least one of time information indicating when the route information was sent to the GPS device and size information indicating size of the route information sent to the GPS device;

comparing at least one of the time information and the size information of the received routing event record with information of a network record generated by a wireless carrier network corresponding to the route information being sent to the GPS device to determine that the network record matches up with the routing event record; and

associating the routing event record with the determined corresponding network record.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the association is performed by the wireless carrier.

9. A tangible, non-transient computer-readable medium, part of a call center, having computer-executable instructions for associating routing event records with network records in a system including a GPS (Global Positioning System)-based navigation aid device stored thereon, the computer-executable instructions comprising instructions for:

receiving, from the GPS device, a route request;

sending, to the GPS device, route information corresponding to a route calculated based on the route request;

storing, in a database, a routing event record generated by the call center corresponding to the sending of the route information in response to the route request, the routing event record including at least one of time information indicating when the route information was sent to the GPS device and size information indicating size of the route information sent to the GPS device;

comparing at least one of the time information and the size information of the routing event record with information of a network record generated by a wireless carrier network corresponding to the route information being sent to the GPS device to determine that the network record matches up with the routing event record; and

associating the routing event record with the determined corresponding network record.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the call center is configured to receive the network record from the wireless carrier.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising instructions for:

rectifying timestamps of the routing event record and the network record.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the comparing further comprises:

determining that a timestamp of the network record is closest in time to a timestamp of the routing event record relative to other network records and within a threshold time period in relation to the timestamp of the routing event record.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the comparing further comprises:

determining that at least one of time information and size information of the network record is within a range of the at least one of time information and size information of the routing event record.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the comparing further comprises:

comparing a combination of routing event records, including the routing event record, with the network record.