US 11,887,482 B2
Deriving an equivalent real-time engine control unit (ECU) speed of a vehicle
Steven Paul Wright, Pflugerville, TX (US); John Thomas Morris, Round Rock, TX (US); and Paul Casey, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/453,523.
Application 17/453,523 is a continuation of application No. 16/162,743, filed on Oct. 17, 2018, granted, now 11,176,828.
Prior Publication US 2022/0058952 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/127 (2006.01); B60W 40/10 (2012.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/04 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/20 (2013.01) [B60W 40/10 (2013.01); G08G 1/127 (2013.01); B60W 2050/046 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2530/13 (2021.08); B60W 2530/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
obtaining, by a server device, historical location data, associated with a vehicle, captured by a global positioning system (GPS) device of the vehicle;
obtaining, by the server device, historical engine control unit (ECU) data concerning the vehicle,
wherein historical ECU data is associated with a revolution frequency of a drive shaft, and
wherein the historical ECU data is captured by the ECU of the vehicle;
processing, by the server device, the historical location data and the historical ECU data;
determining, by the server device and using a model, a relationship between the historical location data and the historical ECU data,
wherein the model is a machine learning model;
updating, by the server device, the model based on current location data and current ECU data associated with the vehicle; and
deriving, by the server device and based on real-time location data associated with the vehicle, a calculated equivalent real-time ECU speed of the vehicle using the model,
wherein the real-time location data includes real-time GPS location data, and
wherein the calculated equivalent real-time ECU speed is an estimate of a speed of the vehicle captured by the ECU.