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Identifying roadway obstacles based on vehicular data

  • US 10,169,999 B2
  • Filed: 11/10/2016
  • Issued: 01/01/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • activating, by a roadway obstacle and navigation system including a roadway obstacle and navigation application executing on a mobile device associated with the roadway obstacle and navigation system, one or more communication interfaces of the mobile device;

    scanning, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system and via the one or more communication interfaces, for one or more of a telematics device and an on-board computer associated with a vehicle;

    responsive to detecting, via the scan, one or more of the telematics device and the on-board computer associated with the vehicle, pairing, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system and via the one or more communication interfaces, the mobile device with one or more of the telematics device and the on-board computer associated with the vehicle;

    receiving, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system and from one or more of the telematics device and the on-board computer, vehicle operational data of the vehicle;

    determining, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system and based on the vehicle operational data, whether a driving event occurred;

    responsive to determining that the driving event occurred, compressing, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system, the vehicle operational data corresponding to the driving event;

    transmitting, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system, the compressed vehicle operational data to an obstacle identification server;

    receiving, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system and from the obstacle identification server, data corresponding to one or more roadway obstacles, wherein the data corresponding to the one or more roadway obstacles includes at least location information of each of the one or more roadway obstacles;

    determining, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system, a relative location of the vehicle in relation to the location information of each of the one or more roadway obstacles; and

    determining, by the roadway obstacle and navigation system, whether the relative location of the vehicle in relation to at least one of the one or more roadway obstacles is within a predetermined threshold.

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