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Detecting driving with a wearable computing device

  • US 9,832,306 B2
  • Filed: 01/09/2017
  • Issued: 11/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • detecting, by a computing platform of a vehicle, movement associated with a wearable computing device that is located within the vehicle, wherein the computing platform is an onboard computing platform that is built into the vehicle;

    detecting movement associated with the vehicle;

    after filtering the movement associated with the wearable computing device based on the movement associated with the vehicle, identifying, by the computing platform, based on one or more changes to the movement associated with the wearable computing device, a degree of likelihood that a user of the wearable computing device performed an act of driving within the vehicle;

    determining, by the computing platform, based on the degree of likelihood, that the user of the wearable computing device is driving the vehicle; and

    performing, by the computing platform, based on determining that the user of the wearable computing device is driving the vehicle, an operation.

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