Method and System For Electronic Monitoring

• US 20170307388A1
• Filed: 04/26/2016
• Published: 10/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Corrisoft, LLC
• Original Assignee: Earthsweep LLC
• Inventors: McConathy, Nathaniel, Poe, Brian C.
• Granted Patent: US 10,048,081 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries

Abstract

Disclosed is a system that receives a request for calculation of one or more routes between a user specified starting location and a destination location and retrieve restrictions in a list corresponding to one or more location restrictions imposed on an individual, with each restriction including a restriction area. The system receive calculated routes and restrictions and whether the segments of the routes intersect areas that define the restrictions in the list. The system issues an approval for each route where no segment of the route intersects any of the restriction areas. Also disclosed is tracking of a user according to approved routes.

Claims

1. A system comprises:

a storage device that stores a list of one or more location restrictions imposed on an individual, which list specifies for each restriction, a corresponding area about the one or more location restrictions within which the individual is restricted from entering;

a processor device;

memory coupled to the processor device; and

a storage device storing a computer program product to configure the processor device to;

receive from a computer based system one or more calculated routes between a user entered starting location and a destination location;

retrieve restrictions from the storage device;

compare values of geo coordinates corresponding to segments of the one or more calculated routes to values of geo coordinates corresponding to areas defining the one or more restrictions in the list;

determine from the comparison whether one or more segments of the proposed route intersect one or more of the areas defining the restrictions; and

when an intersection is determined,

cause the computer based system to calculate a new route between the user entered starting location and the destination location.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the tracking system is further configured to:

issue an approval of one or more calculated routes when the segments of the corresponding one or more calculated routes do not intersect areas defining all of the restrictions.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the routes are received as an ordered listing of nodes.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the system for each routes that is represented as the ordered listing of nodes, produces the segments.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the system receives a user request for approval of a route.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the system receives the user request, and the system is configured to:

send a system generated request to a third party system for calculation of a route between the user entered starting location and a destination location.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the system receives the calculated route from the third party system, and the system is configured to:

send a second request to the third party system for the recalculation of a route between the user entered starting location and a destination location when the received calculated route is determined to have one or more segments that intersect one or more of the areas.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the system receives from a user device a calculated route that accompanies the user request for approval of the calculated route;

and the system is configured to;

send the approval to the user device when the system determines that the received calculated route does not have at least one segment that intersects one or more of the areas.

9. The system of claim 5 wherein the system receives a calculated route that accompanies the user request for approval of the calculated route;

and the system is configured to;

send a message to the user device to calculate a new route when the system determines that the received calculated route does have at least one segment that intersects one or more of the areas.

10. The system of claim 5 wherein the system receives a calculated route that accompanies the user request for approval of the calculated route;

and the system is configured to;

calculate an alternative route by the system, which route is determined to be free of any segments that intersect one or more of the areas.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein upon initiating of travel by the individual in a vehicle, the system is further configured to:

receive from a navigation system in the vehicle, location data collected by the navigation system;

determine from the location data whether the user has entered an area associated with the retrieved restrictions; and

issue an alert to a user device that the vehicle has either deviated from the approved route and/or entered an area associated with the retrieved restrictions.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein the navigation system is an automotive navigation system.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein upon initiating of travel by the individual, the system is further configured to:

receive location data collected by a location data collector associated with a tracking device;

determine from the set of location data whether the tracking device has entered an area associated with the retrieved restrictions; and

issue an alert to a user device that the user has either deviated from the approved route and/or entered an area associated with the retrieved restrictions.

14. The system of claim 1 further configured to:

receive the list of the one or more location restrictions, with the list comprising a node expressed in geo coordinates of longitude and latitude and an radius about the node; and

calculate for each of the one or more location restrictions from the geo coordinates of longitude and latitude and corresponding radius about the node, the area that defines the location restriction; and

store the calculated area in association with the restriction.

15. A system comprises:

a storage device that stores a list corresponding to one or more location restrictions imposed on a plurality of individuals, with each corresponding list including for each restriction a restriction area;

a processor device and memory coupled to the processor device; and

a storage device storing a computer program product to configure the processor device to;

receive from a computer based system a request for calculation of one or more routes between a user specified starting location and a destination location;

send the request for calculation of one or more routes between the user specified starting location and the destination location to a navigation service;

receive one or more calculated routes;

retrieve restrictions from the storage device;

determine from geo coordinates corresponding to segments of the one or more calculated routes whether the segments intersect areas that define the one or more restrictions in the list;

determine from the comparison whether one or more segments of the proposed route intersect one or more of the restriction areas;

issue an approval for each route where no segment of the route intersects any of the restriction areas;

receive from a navigation device upon initiating of travel by the individual location data collected by the navigation device;

determine from the location data whether the user has deviated from the one or more approved routes; and

issue an alert to a user device that the vehicle has either deviated from the approved route and/or entered an area associated with the retrieved restrictions.

16. A method comprises:

receiving by a navigation approval tracking system, a request to approve a route for travel for a user having travel restrictions;

receiving by the navigation approval tracking system one or more calculated routes between a user entered starting location and a destination location;

retrieving from a storage device a list of one or more restrictions imposed on the user for which the request was sent, with the list specifying for each restriction a corresponding area about a corresponding location included in the restriction, with the user being restricted from entering the area;

comparing by the navigation approval tracking system coordinate values of nodes corresponding to segments of the one or more calculated routes to coordinate values of an area corresponding to one of the one or more restrictions in the list; and

determining by the navigation approval tracking system from the comparison whether the segment intersects the area; and

when an intersection is determined,

causing by the navigation approval tracking system a calculation of a new route between the user entered starting location and the destination location.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

sending by the navigation approval tracking system, an approval message to a user device when the navigation approval tracking system determines that for one or more of the calculated routes there are no intersections.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein receiving by the navigation approval tracking system of the one or more calculated routes further comprises:

generating by the navigation approval tracking system the one or more calculated routes between the user entered starting location and the destination location.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the received one or more calculated routes are received from a navigation system.

20. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

receiving by the computer system from device location data collected by the navigation system;

determining by the computer system from the location data whether the user has entered a restricted area; and

issuing by the navigation approval tracking system an alert to a user device when the user entered the restricted area.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the device is an automotive navigation system.

22. The method of claim 20 wherein the device is an offender tracking device.