US 10,567,919 B2Granted

Detecting device movement and/or device usage within a vehicle

AssigneeArity International Limited

InventorsKyle Patrick Schmitt, Pratheek M. Harish, Venu Madhav Tammali, Jared S. Snyder, Dana Ferguson

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving and transmitting accelerometer data and/or usage data, and analyzing the data to detect movement or usage of the device within a vehicle. A device, such as a mobile device, may detect a device movement event or a device usage event associated with the device. Based on the detection of the device movement event or the device usage event, a time associated with the event may be stored. The device may determine whether another event associated with the device occurs within a threshold amount of time from the time associated with the event. Based on a determination of whether the other event occurs within the threshold amount of time, the device may determine an event session associated with the device. The event session may comprise an instantaneous event or a continuous event. Data indicative of the event session may be transmitted to a server.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A mobile device comprising:

an accelerometer configured to measure acceleration of at least one axis of the accelerometer;
a processor;
and
memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor of the mobile device to:
receive, from the accelerometer, acceleration data measured by the accelerometer;
detect, based on the acceleration data measured by the accelerometer, a mobile device movement event associated with the mobile device;
based on the detection of the mobile device movement event, store a time associated with the mobile device movement event;
determine whether an event associated with the mobile device occurs within a threshold amount of time from the time associated with the mobile device movement event;
based on the determination of whether the event associated with the mobile device occurs within the threshold amount of time from the time associated with the mobile device movement event, determine an event session associated with the mobile device, wherein a start time of the event session comprises the time associated with the mobile device movement event;
and
transmit, to a server, data indicative of the event session.

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A method comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device and from an accelerometer configured to measure acceleration of at least one axis of the accelerometer, acceleration data measured by the accelerometer;
detecting, by the mobile device and based on the acceleration data measured by the accelerometer, a mobile device movement event associated with the mobile device;
based on the detecting the mobile device movement event, storing a time associated with the mobile device movement event;
determining whether an event associated with the mobile device occurs within a threshold amount of time from the time associated with the mobile device movement event;
based on the determining whether the event associated with the mobile device occurs within the threshold amount of time from the time associated with the mobile device movement event, determining an event session associated with the mobile device, wherein a start time of the event session comprises the time associated with the mobile device movement event;
and
transmitting, by the mobile device and to a server, data indicative of the event session.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when read by a processor of a mobile device, cause the processor of the mobile device to:

detect a mobile device usage event associated with the mobile device;
based on the detection of the mobile device usage event, store a time associated with the mobile device usage event;
determine whether an event associated with the mobile device occurs within a threshold amount of time from the time associated with the mobile device usage event;
based on the determination of whether the event associated with the mobile device occurs within the threshold amount of time from the time associated with the mobile device usage event, determine an event session associated with the mobile device, wherein a start time of the event session comprises the time associated with the mobile device usage event;
and
transmit, to a server, data indicative of the event session.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/935,161Filed 26 Mar 2018 · continuation in part
Priority: 13 Sep 2016
Published: US 2018/0199159 A126 Jul 2018
Granted: 18 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04W 4/027
Using location based information parameters: using movement velocity, acceleration information
G01C 21/18
By integrating acceleration or speed, i.e. inertial navigation: stabilised platforms, e.g. by gyroscope
G06Q 40/08
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: insurance
H04M 1/72463
With means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions: to restrict the functionality of the device

Family

Application15/263,562Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Sep 2016
Application15/470,263Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Mar 2017
US 9,654,932 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 16 May 2017
Application15/841,867Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 14 Dec 2017
US 9,867,015 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Jan 2018
US 2018/0213360 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Jul 2018
US 10,397,744 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application15/841,867Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0199159 A1Published application
US 10,567,919 B2This patent

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