US 12,284,470 B2
System and method for obtaining vehicle telematics data
Hari Balakrishnan, Belmont, MA (US); Lewis David Girod, Arlington, MA (US); and Ilan Ossin, Johannesburg (ZA)
Assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc., Cambridge, MA (US); and Discovery Limited, Sandton (ZA)
Filed by Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc., Cambridge, MA (US); and Discovery Limited, Sandton (ZA)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/837,423.
Application 17/837,423 is a continuation of application No. 16/904,679, filed on Jun. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,363,355.
Application 16/904,679 is a continuation of application No. 16/559,726, filed on Sep. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,082,758, issued on Aug. 3, 2021.
Application 16/559,726 is a continuation of application No. 16/398,083, filed on Apr. 29, 2019, granted, now 10,440,451, issued on Oct. 8, 2019.
Application 16/398,083 is a continuation of application No. 14/529,812, filed on Oct. 31, 2014, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/985,644, filed on Apr. 29, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0303648 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04Q 9/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/16 (2006.01); G06Q 40/08 (2012.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04Q 9/00 (2013.01) [G01C 21/166 (2020.08); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/0858 (2013.01); G06Q 40/08 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/00 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/10 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/20 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/40 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/50 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle tag for providing motion data from a vehicle to a server, the vehicle tag being configured to:
(a) be affixed mechanically to, but not connected electrically to, the vehicle,
(b) become identifiably associated with the vehicle,
(c) while the vehicle is being driven, sense a motion characteristic of the vehicle,
(d) generate motion data for the vehicle based on the sensed motion characteristic,
(e) at times when a mobile device is available for wireless communication with the vehicle tag,
(i) establish a connection between the vehicle tag and the mobile device by the vehicle tag:
(x) accepting a connection request initiated from the mobile device in response to the vehicle tag advertising its presence, or
(y) initiating a connection request to the mobile device in response to the mobile device advertising its presence,
(ii) use the established connection to communicate information representative of at least some of the motion data to an application or other process running on the mobile device, for forwarding to the server along with an identity of the vehicle tag for analysis of driving behavior of a driver of the vehicle or driving behavior of the vehicle,
(f) the motion data being for computing an orientation of axes of the vehicle tag in relation to axes corresponding to a frame of reference, the orientation being used to convert motion data from the axes of the vehicle tag to the axes corresponding to the frame of reference to determine whether to communicate at least some of the information representative of at least some of the motion data to the server; and
(g) at some times, be in a reduced power mode based on the sensed motion characteristic.