Passively capturing and monitoring device behaviors

A method, comprising:

• detecting a change in a first location for a device to a second location for the device that exceeds a threshold distance;
• monitoring an Operating System (OS) service on the device for a reference activity associated with the device based on the change;
• obtaining sensor data from a plurality of device sensors when the OS service reports the reference activity;
• recording the sensor data as trip data associated with the reference activity until the OS service fails to report the reference activity for a reference period of time;
• and
• reporting the trip data as a single trip associated with the device to a trip behavior system when the device has a wireless network connection.

A system, comprising:

• at least one server system comprising at least one server having at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions representing a driving behavior analyzer;
• a mobile device comprising a mobile device processor and a mobile device non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions representing an Operating System (OS) activity service and a trip tracker;
• the trip tracker when executed by the mobile device processor from the mobile device non-transitory computer-readable storage medium causes the mobile device processor to perform operations comprising:
• passively monitoring the OS activity service for an alert indicating the mobile device has changed locations by a configured distance;
• actively requesting activity identifiers for activities associated with the mobile device from the OS activity service;
• recording sensor data from sensors of the mobile device when a particular activity identifier matches a reference activity;
• setting a timer when a reported activity identifier from the OS activity service fails to match the reference activity;
• recording new sensor data obtained from the sensors in a trip file during a period of time associated with the timer;
• terminating recording of the new sensor data when there are no matching reported activity identifiers from the OS activity service to the reference activity during an entire period of time associated with the timer;
• and
• sending the trip file to the driving behavior analyzer when the mobile device is detected as having wireless connection;
• the driving behavior analyzer when executed by the at least one processor from the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
• receiving the trip file from the trip tracker of the mobile device;
• tabulating metrics for driving actions from the trip file;
• assigning values to the metrics to represent scores for driving behaviors;
• and
• providing the scores for the driving behaviors as one of several inputs considered by a rate quote service for a user or driver associated with the mobile device.