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Detecting vehicle collisions based on moble computing device data

  • US 9,934,625 B1
  • Filed: 01/31/2017
  • Issued: 04/03/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for remotely evaluating collision events of vehicles, the method being implemented by one or more processors of a network computing system and comprising:

  • maintaining, on the network computing system, profile information for each of a plurality of users, the profile information associating each user with an account identifier of a network service;

    arranging a transport to be provided in which multiple occupants of a transport vehicle are users of the network service;

    while the transport is in progress, receiving local device data transmitted from a mobile computing device of at least one of multiple occupants of the transport vehicle, the local device data including (i) sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile computing device, and (ii) location data determined from a position-determination resource of the mobile computing device;

    detecting a vehicle collision event based on the local device data;

    determining a classification of the vehicle collision event based on the local device data, the classification including at least one of (i) a first level in which a likelihood of injury is below a first threshold probability, and (ii) a second level in which a likelihood of injury is above a second threshold probability;

    automatically initiating performance of an action for each of the multiple occupants of the transport vehicle, to mitigate a consequence of the vehicle collision event to that occupant;

    wherein automatically initiating performance of the action for each of the multiple occupants of the transport vehicle includes;

    retrieving profile information that is specific to each of the multiple occupants of the transport vehicle based on the account identifier associated with that occupant; and

    for each of the multiple occupants, determining the action to perform based on the classification of the vehicle collision event and the retrieved profile information that is specific to that occupant.

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