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US 10,896,402 B2Granted
Short-range wireless determination of a vehicle's asset inventory
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorAaron Olaff Nevarez Pedroza
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Abstract
A device associated with a vehicle detects a first trigger indicating that the vehicle is moving for more than a first threshold time period, and identifies first assets proximate to the vehicle, based on the first trigger and using short-range wireless communications. The device detects a second trigger indicating that the vehicle has stopped moving for more than a second threshold time period and has started moving after stopping, and identifies second assets proximate to the vehicle, based on the second trigger and using short-range wireless communications. The device compares the identified first assets and the identified second assets, and generates a notification based on a result of the comparing the identified first assets and the identified second assets.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- detecting, by a device, a first trigger indicating that a vehicle is moving at more than a threshold velocity for more than a first threshold time period;
- identifying, by the device and at a first time, a plurality of first assets proximate to the vehicle based on the first trigger and using short-range wireless communications, associated with a short-range wireless technology, between the plurality of first assets and the device;
- receiving, by the device, location information identifying a location of a premises of a customer;
- determining, by the device and at a second time, that the vehicle has stopped at the premises of the customer based on the vehicle being stopped for more than a second threshold time period at the location;
- detecting, by the device after determining that the vehicle has stopped at the premises of the customer, a second trigger indicating that the vehicle is moving at more than the threshold velocity for more than the first threshold time period;
- identifying, by the device, at a third time after the second time, and based on detecting the second trigger indicating that the vehicle is moving at more than the threshold velocity for more than the first threshold time period, one or more second assets proximate to the vehicle using the short-range wireless communications between the one or more second assets and the device;
- comparing, by the device and at the third time or at a fourth time after the third time, information identifying the plurality of first assets at the first time and information identifying the one or more second assets at the third time;
- determining, by the device, that at least one particular asset, of the plurality of first assets, is not included in the one or more second assets based on comparing the information identifying the plurality of first assets at the first time and the information identifying the one or more second assets at the third time;
- and
- generating, by the device,
- a notification indicating that the at least one particular asset has been erroneously left at the premises of the customer when the at least one particular asset is on a list of assets to be on the vehicle at the third time.
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A device, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- one or more processors to:
- detect a first trigger indicating that a vehicle is moving at more than a threshold velocity for more than a first threshold time period;
- determine, at a first time and based on detecting the first trigger, a first list of assets that includes information identifying a plurality of first assets proximate to the vehicle using short-range wireless communications, associated with a short-range wireless technology, between the plurality of first assets and the device;
- verify that the first list of assets is correct;
- receive location information identifying a location of a premises of a customer;
- determine, at a second time after the first time, that the vehicle has stopped at the premises of the customer based on the vehicle being stopped for more than a second threshold time period at the location;
- detect, after determining that the vehicle has stopped at the premises of the customer, a second trigger indicating that the vehicle is moving at more than the threshold velocity for more than the first threshold time period;
- determine, at a third time after the second time and based on detecting the second trigger indicating that the vehicle is moving at more than the threshold velocity for more than the first threshold time period, a second list of assets that includes information identifying one or more second assets proximate to the vehicle using the short-range wireless communications between the one or more second assets and the device;
- compare, at the third time or at a fourth time after the third time, information identifying the first list of assets at the first time and information identifying the second list of assets at the third time;
- determine that at least one particular asset included in the first list of assets is missing from the second list of assets based on comparing the information identifying the first list of assets at the first time and the information identifying the second list of assets at the third time;
- and
- generate
- a notification indicating that the at least one particular asset has been erroneously left at the premises of the customer when the at least one particular asset is not included in a third list of assets to deliver to the customer.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the one or more processors to:
- identify, at a first time and based on determining that a vehicle is moving at more than a threshold velocity for more than a first threshold time period, a plurality of first assets proximate to the vehicle using short-range wireless communications, associated with a short-range wireless technology, between the plurality of first assets and the device;
- generate a first list of assets based on information identifying the plurality of first assets at the first time;
- receive location information identifying a location of a premises of a customer;
- determine, at a second time, that the vehicle has stopped at the premises of the customer based on the vehicle being stopped for more than a second threshold time period at the location;
- detect, after determining that the vehicle has stopped at the premises of the customer, a trigger indicating that the vehicle is moving at more than the threshold velocity for more than the first threshold time period;
- identify, at a third time after the second time and based on detecting the trigger indicating that the vehicle is moving at more than the threshold velocity for more than the first threshold time period, one or more second assets proximate to the vehicle using the short-range wireless communications between the one or more second assets and the device;
- compare, at the third time or at a fourth time after the third time, information identifying the one or more second assets at the third time and the first list of assets to generate a modified list of assets;
- store the modified list of assets;
- determine that at least one particular asset, of the plurality of first assets, is not included in the one or more second assets based on comparing the information identifying the one or more second assets at the third time and the first list of assets;
- receive, from a server device, a second list of assets to be on the vehicle at the third time;
- and
- generate, based on determining that the at least one particular asset is not included in the one or more second assets and based on the at least one particular asset being included in the second list of assets, a notification indicating that the at least one particular asset has been erroneously left at the premises of the customer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.