Methods for providing secure and transparent cached monitoring device data

• US 8,760,299 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2011
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Poka Yoke LLC
• Original Assignee: Michael Roth
• Inventors: Roth, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): La, Anh V
• Application Number:
  US13/295,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20120072403A1
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 340/576, 340/575, 340/438, 340/901, 340/988, 340/991, 340/573.1, 340/522, 701/33, 701/35, 701/300, 180/272, 180/279, 180/289, 280/735, 307/10.1, 600/532, 707/705, 707/E17.005, 707/E17.032
• US Class Current: 340/576
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 28/063 preventing starting of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/24 Drug level, e.g. alcohol
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/4972 Determining alcohol content for vehicle safety devices B60K28/06

Abstract

Generally, in accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the present method comprises collecting data from monitoring devices, uploading the data from a monitoring device to a central database, pairing the data with secure transactional data to provide one or more secure transactional stamp(s), storing the data and the paired secure transactional stamp(s) in the central database, producing a report comprising the data and the paired transactional stamp, and providing the report to an authorized third party. Preferably, the transactional stamp comprising the name of personnel, time, and any changes made to the data collected from the monitoring device is generated and attached to the data. Further, the present invention discloses methods for transactional stamping all reviews of the monitoring device data and/or all client input data to produce a secure report, admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Claims

1. A method for providing secured and transparent cached monitoring device data from a monitoring device comprising:

interfacing a central database with at least one monitoring device;

uploading data from the at least one monitoring device to the central database;

pairing the data with secured transactional data to provide a secure transactional stamp;

storing the data and the paired secure transactional stamp in the central database;

producing a report with the data and the paired transactional stamp; and

providing the report to an authorized third party.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one monitoring device comprises at least one of an ignition interlock device, a drug detection device, a Radio Frequency Electronic Monitoring device, a Global Positioning Satellite tracking device, a Personal Data Assistant device, a Field Verification Unit device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one ignition interlock device comprises at least one of a DRAEGER INTERLOCK®

XT device, an Intoxalock device, a LifeSafer Interlock device, a Smart Start'"'"'s ignition interlock device, an AMS 2000 device, a QuicTest device, a Determinator device, a Taguchi cell, an infrared absorption sensing system, and a fuel cell configured to sense and quantify the amount of alcohol in a client'"'"'s breath sample.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface between the central database and the at least one monitoring device comprises at least one of a wireless connection and a wired connection.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the wired connection comprises at least one of USB connection, an Ethernet connection, a DIN connection, a DVI connection, a VGA connection, a DB13W3 connection, and a D-Terminal connection.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the wireless connection comprises at least one of a wireless access network connection.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data uploaded from the at least one monitoring device comprises blood alcohol concentration test results, drug analysis test results, diagnostic information of the at least one monitoring device, warnings of hardware failures of the at least one monitoring device, speed of a vehicle, location of a vehicle, location of a user, and information concerning the verification of the user'"'"'s identity.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the secured transactional data comprises at least one of a time data denoting the time at which the data was collected, a date data denoting the date at which the data was collected, an operator data denoting the name of the operator who uploaded the data from the at least one monitoring device, and a programming data describing any programming changes to the data uploaded from the at least one monitoring device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the secure transactional stamp comprises at least one of a time stamp denoting the time at which the data was collected, a date stamp denoting the date at which the data was collected, an operator stamp denoting the name of the operator who uploaded the data from the at least one monitoring device, and a programming stamp describing any programming changes to the data uploaded from the at least one monitoring device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the central database comprises a computer server.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the authorized third party comprises at least one of a member of court personnel, a member of motor vehicle department personnel, and a member of police department personnel.

12. A method for providing secured and transparent cached monitoring device data from at least one monitoring device comprising:

interfacing at least one local computer with the at least one monitoring device;

uploading data from the at least one monitoring device to the at least one local computer;

pairing the data with secured transactional data to provide a secure transactional stamp;

transmitting the data and the paired secure transactional stamp from the at least one local computer to a central database;

storing the data and the paired secured transactional stamp in the central database;

reviewing the data and the paired secured transactional stamp for violations and hardware errors;

producing a report comprising the data, the paired transactional stamp; and

providing the report to an authorized third party.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one local computer comprises at least one of a personal digital assistant (PDA) computer, a laptop computer, and a desktop computer.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one monitoring device comprises at least one of an ignition interlock device, a drug detection device, a Radio Frequency Electronic Monitoring device, a Global Positioning Satellite tracking device, a Personal Data Assistant device, a Field Verification Unit device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the at least one ignition interlock device comprising at least one of a DRAEGER INTERLOCK®

XT device, an Intoxalock device, a LifeSafer Interlock device, a Smart Start'"'"'s ignition interlock device, an AMS 2000 device, a QuicTest device, The Determinator device, a Taguchi cell, an infrared absorption sensing system, a fuel cell, and a transdermal sensing system, and a bodily fluid sensing system configured to sense and quantify the amount of alcohol in a client'"'"'s breath sample.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the interface between the central database and the at least one monitoring device comprises at least one of a wireless connection and a wired connection.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the wired connection comprises at least one of a USB connection, an Ethernet connection, a wireless network connection, a MN connection, a DVI connection, a VGA connection, a DB13W3 connection, and a D-Terminal connection.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the data uploaded from the at least one monitoring device comprises blood alcohol concentration test results, drug analysis test results diagnostic information of the at least one monitoring device, warnings of hardware failures of the at least one monitoring device, location of a vehicle, speed of a vehicle, location of a user, and information concerning the verification of the user'"'"'s identity.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the secured transactional data comprises at least one of a time data denoting the time at which the data was collected, a date data denoting the date at which the data was collected, an operator data denoting the name of the operator who uploaded the data from the at least one monitoring device, and a programming data describing any programming changes to the data uploaded from the at least one monitoring device.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the secure transactional stamp comprises at least one of a time stamp denoting the time at which the data was collected, a date stamp denoting the date at which the data was collected, an operator stamp denoting the name of the operator who uploaded the data from the at least one monitoring device, and a programming stamp describing any programming changes to the data uploaded from the at least one monitoring device.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the central database comprises a computer server.

22. The method of claim 12, wherein the authorized third party comprises a member of court personnel, a member of motor vehicle department personnel, and a member of police department personnel in the State of Arizona.

23. The method of claim 12, wherein the report is admissible under Rule 901(b)(9) of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

24. The method of claim 12, wherein the report is admissible under Rule 902(11) of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

25. A system for providing secured and transparent cached monitoring device data from a monitoring device comprising:

interfacing a central database with at least one monitoring device;

uploading data from the at least one monitoring device to the central database;

pairing the data with secured transactional data to provide a secure transactional stamp;

storing the data and the paired secure transactional stamp in the central database;

producing a report with the data and the paired transactional stamp; and

providing the report to an authorized third party.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the at least one monitoring device comprises at least one of an ignition interlock device, drug detection device, Radio Frequency Electronic Monitoring device, a Global Positioning Satellite tracking device, a Personal Data Assistant device, a Field Verification Unit device.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the at least one ignition interlock device comprises at least one of a DRAEGER INTERLOCK®

XT device, an Intoxalock device, a LifeSafer Interlock device, a Smart Start'"'"'s ignition interlock device, an AMS 2000 device, a QuicTest device, a Determinator device, a Taguchi cell, an infrared absorption sensing system, and a fuel cell configured to sense and quantify the amount of alcohol in a client'"'"'s breath sample.

28. A method for providing secured and transparent cached monitoring device data from a monitoring device comprising:

interfacing a central database with at least one monitoring device;

uploading data from the at least one monitoring device to the at central database;

pairing the data with a secured data identifier;

storing the data and the secured data identifier in the central database;

producing a report comprising the data; and

providing the report to an authorized third party.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the secured data identifier may comprise at least one of number, symbol, sign, letter, data cell location and data identifier.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the secured data identifier may comprise at least one of a time stamp denoting the time at which the data was collected, a date stamp denoting the date at which the data was collected, an operator stamp denoting the name of the operator who uploaded that data from the monitoring device, a programming stamp describing any programming changes to the data uploaded from the monitoring device, and any other number, symbol, sign letter or any other contemplated identifier to identify the monitoring data.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein the secured data identifier may comprise at least one of a time data denoting the time at which the data was collected, a date data denoting the date at which the data was collected, an operator data denoting the name of the operator who uploaded the data from the monitoring device, a programming data describing any programming changes to the data uploaded from the monitoring device.

32. The system of claim 28, wherein the at least one monitoring device comprises at least one of an ignition interlock device, a drug detection device, a Radio Frequency Electronic Monitoring device, a Global Positioning Satellite tracking device, a Personal Data Assistant device, a Field Verification Unit device.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the at least one ignition interlock device comprises at least one of a DRAEGER INTERLOCK®

XT device, an Intoxalock device, a LifeSafer Interlock device, a Smart Start'"'"'s ignition interlock device, an AMS 2000 device, a QuicTest device, a Determinator device, a Taguchi cell, an infrared absorption sensing system, and a fuel cell configured to sense and quantify the amount of alcohol in a client'"'"'s breath sample.