US 10,706,644 B2 · Systems and methods for determining fuel information of a vehicle

Abstract

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining or providing fuel information of a vehicle, such as predicting fuel intake and usage for the vehicle. A method for predicting a fueling event of a vehicle comprises using a mobile computing device carried in the vehicle to track the vehicle along a route. Multiple stop events may be detected when tracking the vehicle, and for each of the multiple stop events, each of duration and a geographic location may be determined. Next, a given stop event of the multiple stop events may be determined to be a fueling event based at least in part on a duration and geographic location of the given stop event.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for providing a usage of a vehicle using a mobile computing device onboard said vehicle, comprising:

(a) when said vehicle is in motion, (i) using one or more sensors of said mobile computing device to collect data including global position system (GPS) data or motion data, and (ii) using said mobile computing device to process said data to detect a stop event of said vehicle;
(b) upon detecting said stop event, using said mobile computing device to automatically determine a duration and a geographic location of said stop event from said data;
(c) using a trained machine learning algorithm to determine that said stop event is a fueling event based at least in part on said duration and said geographic location determined in (b);
(d) using at least said fueling event to estimate said usage of said vehicle;
and
(e) providing said usage of said vehicle on a graphical user interface (GUI) of said mobile computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/032,783Filed 11 Jul 2018 · continuation

Priority

2 Sep 2014

Published

US 2019/0080527 A114 Mar 2019

Granted

7 Jul 2020

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G07C 5/02
Registering or indicating the working of vehicles: registering or indicating driving, working, idle, or waiting time only
G01C 21/26
Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00: specially adapted for navigation in a road network
G01F 9/02
Measuring volume flow relative to another variable, e.g. of liquid fuel for an engine: wherein the other variable is the speed of a vehicle
G01F 9/023
Wherein the other variable is the speed of a vehicle: with electric, electro-mechanic or electronic means

Family

Application62/044,986Us provisional application · filed 2 Sep 2014

Application14/843,815Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Sep 2015

US 2019/0080527 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Mar 2019

US 10,140,785 B1Parent of this continuation

US 10,706,644 B2This patent

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Systems and methods for determining fuel information of a vehicle

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Abstract

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