DRIVER RELATED DATA STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20140380494A1
• Filed: 10/16/2012
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Xlerate Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Xlerate Technologies Limited
• Inventors: Ovely, Cyril, Dolli, Manojo
• Application Number:
  US14/352,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20140380494A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/30 Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert or user's encryption keys not requiring secrecy

Abstract

A driver related data storage system comprising: a data generation module adapted to generate driver related data; an encryption module adapted to encrypt driver related data, a storage module adapted to store the encrypted driver related data, a code generation module adapted to generate a machine readable code based on the stored encrypted driver related data and an output module adapted to output the generated machine readable code.

Claims

1. A driver related data storage system comprising:

a data generation module adapted to generate driver related data;

an encryption module adapted to encrypt driver related data;

a storage module adapted to store the encrypted driver related data;

a code generation module adapted to generate a machine readable code based on the stored encrypted driver related data; and

an output module adapted to output the generated machine readable code.

2. The system of claim 1 where the machine readable code is a displayable code.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the machine readable and displayable code is a QR code.

4. The system of claim 1 where the machine readable code is sound data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the data generation module is further adapted to generate the driver related data automatically at predetermined intervals, upon detection of a telematics event or upon the detection of a data generation request by the user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the data generation module is further adapted to generate time related data by activating a GPS device and generate the driver related data based on the time related data.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the data generation module is further adapted to generate the driver related data such that the driver related data is time stamped with the time related data.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the data generation module is further adapted to extract the time related data from GPS data received from the GPS device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the code generation module generates the code upon activation or receipt of a code request.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the code generation module is adapted to generate the code at predetermined intervals.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the predetermined period is one of a single hour, single day, a predetermined number of days, a single week and a predetermined number of weeks.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the driver related data includes one or more of:

the driver'"'"'s name;

the current date;

the time associated with particular locations visited on the current date;

vehicle telematics data.

13. The system of claim 1 further comprising a telematic information retrieval module adapted to retrieve telematic data from a vehicle associated with the user of the driver related data storage system, wherein the data generation module utilises the retrieved telematic data to generate the driver related data.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the encryption module is arranged to encrypt the driver related data by generating an MD5 hash signed by a private key associated with the system and encrypt using a server'"'"'s public key.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the system forms at least part of a smart phone.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is not required to have telephone network connectivity to generate the code.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is an electronic log book.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the generation of the code enables secure transfer of the encrypted driver related data via an output device to a device operating a code reader module.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the device is a smart phone and the output device is a camera inbuilt within the smart phone.

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