Spatiotemporal activity records

• US 10,453,031 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2015
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snapp Studios, LLC
• Original Assignee: Snapp Studios, LLC
• Inventors: Clyde, Stephen Wright, Clyde, David Allan, Smith, Brian G., Ripplinger, Brandon Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Abrahamson, Amanda C
• Application Number:
  US14/846,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20160071057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/205 Education administration or guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/167 Control of land vehicles

Abstract

A method of creating spatiotemporal activity records for an education program may include determining a start of an activity. The method may additionally include tracking the activity to record at least one accomplishment or error achieved in the activity and at least one time/location indicator associated with the at least one accomplishment or error. The method may additionally include generating a spatiotemporal activity record that includes the at least one time/location indicator and the at least one accomplishment or error. The method may additionally include presenting at least a portion of the spatiotemporal activity record for review by a reviewer, receiving identification data of the reviewer as an indication that the reviewer has reviewed and understands the at least the portion of the spatiotemporal activity record, authenticating the reviewer as a service receiver, and verifying the spatiotemporal activity record as reviewed and approved by the service receiver.

Claims

1. A method to create spatiotemporal activity records for an education program, the method comprising:

determining a start of a vehicular driving activity of a service receiver;

tracking, by a computing device, the vehicular driving activity to record at least one accomplishment or error achieved in the vehicular driving activity and one or more time/location indicators associated with the at least one accomplishment or error, the tracking including determining whether a location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of city driving or freeway driving;

adaptively sampling, by the computing device, the one or more time/location indicators based on the manner in which the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time, including sampling the time-location indicators at a first sampling rate when the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of city driving and sampling the time-location indicators at a second sampling rate when the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of freeway driving, wherein the first sampling rate is higher than the second sampling rate and wherein the at least one accomplishment or error corresponds to at least one of the adaptively sampled one or more time/location indicators;

generating, by the computing device, a spatiotemporal activity record that includes each of the one or more time/location indicators adaptively sampled during an entire duration of the vehicular driving activity and the at least one accomplishment or error;

presenting at least a portion of the spatiotemporal activity record for review by a reviewer;

receiving identification data of the reviewer as an indication that the reviewer has reviewed and understands the at least the portion of the spatiotemporal activity record;

authenticating the reviewer as the service receiver in response to the identification data received from the reviewer matching identification data of the service receiver;

verifying the spatiotemporal activity record as reviewed and approved by the service receiver in response to authenticating the reviewer as the service receiver; and

based on the verified spatiotemporal activity records, performing one or both of;

presenting to the service receiver a list of satisfied requirements and unsatisfied requirements in an education program; and

storing the verified spatiotemporal activity records such that a quality and consistency of the education program is reviewable.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the service receiver is a first service receiver;

the at least one accomplishment or error is achieved by the first service receiver and supervised by a service provider; and

the spatiotemporal activity record further includes a first reference to the first service receiver and a second reference to the service provider.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the at least one accomplishment or error is observed by a second service receiver; and

the spatiotemporal activity record further includes a third reference to the second service receiver.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the start of the vehicular driving activity further comprises:

receiving identification data associated with a service provider;

authenticating the service provider present in the vehicular driving activity based on the identification data associated with the service provider;

receiving data that identifies one or more service receivers present in the vehicular driving activity;

receiving data that describes a selection of the vehicular driving activity by the service provider; and

determining the start of the vehicular driving activity responsive to the selection of the vehicular driving activity.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification data of the reviewer includes a finger signature of the reviewer, a personal identification number (pin) of the reviewer, or a fingerprint of the reviewer.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the vehicular driving activity includes a driving session; and

the at least one accomplishment or error includes one or more driving skills practiced in the vehicular driving activity and one or more practice results for the one or more driving skills.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the spatiotemporal activity record includes a reference to a requirement associated with the vehicular driving activity in the education program;

the at least one accomplishment or error includes at least one accomplishment; and

the at least one accomplishment includes data that indicates that the at least one accomplishment satisfies the requirement.

8. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer storage medium having computer instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computing device to perform operations comprising:

determining a start of a vehicular driving activity of a service receiver;

tracking the vehicular driving activity to record at least one accomplishment or error achieved in the vehicular driving activity and one or more time/location indicators associated with the at least one accomplishment or error, the tracking including determining whether a location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of city driving or freeway driving;

adaptively sampling the one or more time/location indicators based on the manner in which the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time, including sampling the time-location indicators at a first sampling rate when the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of city driving and sampling the time-location indicators at a second sampling rate when the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of freeway driving, wherein the first sampling rate is higher than the second sampling rate and wherein the at least one accomplishment or error corresponds to at least one of the adaptively sampled one or more time/location indicators;

generating a spatiotemporal activity record that includes each of the one or more time/location indicators adaptively sampled during an entire duration of the vehicular driving activity and the at least one accomplishment or error;

presenting at least a portion of the spatiotemporal activity record for review by a reviewer;

receiving identification data of the reviewer as an indication that the reviewer has reviewed and understands the at least the portion of the spatiotemporal activity record;

authenticating the reviewer as the service receiver in response to the identification data received from the reviewer matching identification data of the service receiver;

verifying the spatiotemporal activity record as reviewed and approved by the service receiver in response to authenticating the reviewer as the service receiver; and

based on the verified spatiotemporal activity records, performing one or both of;

presenting to the service receiver a list of satisfied requirements and unsatisfied requirements in an education program; and

storing the verified spatiotemporal activity records such that a quality and consistency of the education program is reviewable.

9. The article of manufacture of claim 8, wherein:

the service receiver is a first service receiver;

the at least one accomplishment or error is achieved by the first service receiver and supervised by a service provider; and

the spatiotemporal activity record further includes a first reference to the first service receiver and a second reference to the service provider.

10. The article of manufacture of claim 9, wherein:

the at least one accomplishment or error is observed by a second service receiver; and

the spatiotemporal activity record further includes a third reference to the second service receiver.

11. The article of manufacture of claim 8, wherein determining the start of the vehicular driving activity further comprises:

receiving identification data associated with a service provider;

authenticating the service provider present in the vehicular driving activity based on the identification data associated with the service provider;

receiving data that identifies one or more service receivers present in the vehicular driving activity;

receiving data that describes a selection of the vehicular driving activity by the service provider; and

determining the start of the vehicular driving activity responsive to the selection of the vehicular driving activity.

12. The article of manufacture of claim 8, wherein the identification data of the reviewer includes a finger signature of the reviewer, a personal identification number (pin) of the reviewer, or a fingerprint of the reviewer.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 8, wherein:

the vehicular driving activity includes a driving session; and

the at least one accomplishment or error includes one or more driving skills practiced in the vehicular driving activity and one or more practice results for the one or more driving skills.

14. The article of manufacture of claim 8, wherein:

the spatiotemporal activity record includes a reference to a requirement associated with the vehicular driving activity in the education program;

the at least one accomplishment or error includes at least one accomplishment; and

the at least one accomplishment includes data that indicates that the at least one accomplishment satisfies the requirement.

15. A system to create spatiotemporal activity records for an education program, the system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to;

determine a start of a vehicular driving activity of a service receiver;

track the vehicular driving activity to record at least one accomplishment or error achieved in the vehicular driving activity and one or more time/location indicators associated with the at least one accomplishment or error, the tracking including determining whether a location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of city driving or freeway driving;

adaptively sample the one or more time/location indicators based on the manner in which the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time, including sample the time-location indicators at a first sampling rate when the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of city driving and sample the time-location indicators at a second sampling rate when the location of the service receiver is changing as a function of time in a manner indicative of freeway driving, wherein the first sampling rate is higher than the second sampling rate and wherein the at least one accomplishment or error corresponds to at least one of the adaptively sampled one or more time/location indicators; and

generate a spatiotemporal activity record that includes each of the one or more time/location indicators adaptively sampled during an entire duration of the vehicular driving activity and the at least one accomplishment or error;

present at least a portion of the spatiotemporal activity record for review by a reviewer;

receive identification data of the reviewer as an indication that the reviewer has reviewed and understands the at least the portion of the spatiotemporal activity record;

authenticate the reviewer as the service receiver in response to the identification data received from the reviewer matching identification data of the service receiver;

verify the spatiotemporal activity record as reviewed and approved by the service receiver in response to authenticating the reviewer as the service receiver; and

based on the verified spatiotemporal activity records, perform one or both of;

present to the service receiver a list of satisfied requirements and unsatisfied requirements in an education program; and

store the verified spatiotemporal activity records such that a quality and consistency of the education program is reviewable.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein:

the service receiver is a first service receiver;

the at least one accomplishment or error is achieved by the first service receiver and supervised by a service provider; and

the spatiotemporal activity record further includes a first reference to the first service receiver and a second reference to the service provider.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein:

the at least one accomplishment or error is observed by a second service receiver; and

the spatiotemporal activity record further includes a third reference to the second service receiver.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein in response to execution by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to determine the start of the vehicular driving activity by:

receiving identification data associated with a service provider;

authenticating the service provider present in the vehicular driving activity based on the identification data associated with the service provider;

receiving data that identifies one or more service receivers present in the vehicular driving activity;

receiving data that describes a selection of the vehicular driving activity by the service provider; and

determining the start of the vehicular driving activity responsive to the selection of the vehicular driving activity.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the identification data of the reviewer includes a finger signature of the reviewer, a personal identification number (pin) of the reviewer, or a fingerprint of the reviewer.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein:

the vehicular driving activity includes a driving session; and

the at least one accomplishment or error includes one or more driving skills practiced in the vehicular driving activity and one or more practice results for the one or more driving skills.