Device, system and method for capturing motor vehicle behavior
OwnerCalvin John Liu, Manohar Raghunath Kamathinventors
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Abstract
A novel fixed communication device includes a locator unit to receive and process information regarding current location, a sensing unit to determine parking status based on proximity of driver to fixed device and a wireless communication unit for information transfer to and from any mobile communications device. The system includes the fixed communications device which is coupled with a software program on a mobile communications device to gather and transmit parking information. A method includes logging parking behavior and parking location of a vehicle as determined by the fixed communications device, with data gathered to be stored in a central server for social communication purposes.
Claims15
A device, comprising:
- a fixed communication device comprising of at least one of a locator unit to receive and process information regarding a current location, a wireless communication unit for transmitting a data and a sensing unit to determine parking status based on proximity of a driver device to the fixed communication device;
- and
- a mobile communication device for information transfer to and from the fixed communications device.
A method, comprising:
- installing a fixed communication device on a vehicle and gathering information about the vehicle from the fixed communication device;
- and
- pairing the fixed communication device with a driver device and establishing a data connection within a specific range to present at least one of an out of range data, in range data, predicting parking status, confirming parking status and vacancy status for parking the vehicle.
A system, comprising:
- a vehicle having a sensing unit to predict expected changes in said parking status based on a physical sensing of driver proximity to vehicle;
- a device to monitor the efficient parking search by communicating the future availability of parking before parking spots actually vacate;
- a software tool to manage the data gathered using the device;
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- a membership enrollment database to store and distribute a data produced by the system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.