US 12,327,434 B2
Vehicle traffic and vehicle related transaction control system
Brian Heath, Vancouver (CA); Tse Young Ko, Edmonton (CA); and Brian Mofford, Edmonton (CA)
Assigned to Drivewyze Ltd., Albany, NY (US)
Filed by Drivewyze Ltd., Edmonton (CA)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/856,922.
Application 16/856,922 is a continuation of application No. 13/414,652, filed on Mar. 7, 2012, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/450,055, filed on Mar. 7, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2020/0250990 A1, Aug. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. G07B 15/06 (2011.01); G06Q 10/0832 (2023.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/017 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); G08G 1/02 (2006.01); G08G 1/04 (2006.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC G07B 15/063 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/0832 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3224 (2013.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G08G 1/096716 (2013.01); G08G 1/096741 (2013.01); G08G 1/096775 (2013.01); G08G 1/207 (2013.01); G06Q 2240/00 (2013.01); G08G 1/017 (2013.01); G08G 1/02 (2013.01); G08G 1/04 (2013.01); G08G 1/14 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of determining contemporaneously with transit of a vehicle between a roadside sensor location and a vehicle traffic control site, by a central processing system for vehicle traffic control connected to a telecommunications network, an association between the vehicle and a data output event of plural data output events produced by one or more sensors at the roadside location, the method comprising:
receiving, at the central processing system prior to the vehicle passing the vehicle traffic control site, a first dataset from a mobile wireless device carried by the vehicle, the first dataset comprising vehicle location data obtained by monitoring a location of the mobile wireless device in which the location is determined from satellites to produce a series of location detection events each associated with a respective location and location detection event time stamp, and vehicle related information;
accessing, by the central processing system, a second dataset including the plural data output events produced by the one or more sensors at the roadside sensor location, wherein the central processing system accesses the second dataset and receives the first dataset without a direct communication link between the mobile wireless device carried by the vehicle and the one or more sensors at the roadside sensor location;
calculating, by the central processing system, a time at which the vehicle encountered the roadside sensor location based on a comparison of the roadside sensor location with the respective locations and location detection event time stamps of the series of location detection events;
comparing, by the central processing system prior to the vehicle passing the vehicle traffic control site, the calculated time at which the vehicle encountered the roadside sensor location to times of the plural data output events produced by the one of more sensors to determine a temporal correspondence between the data output event of the plural data output events and the calculated time at which the vehicle entered the roadside sensor location, and to determine a lack of temporal correspondence between other data output events of the plural data output events and the calculated time;
determining, by the central processing system, the association between the vehicle and the data output event based on the determined temporal correspondence and the determined lack of temporal correspondence; and
outputting, contemporaneously with the transit of the vehicle between the roadside sensor location and the vehicle traffic control site, by the central processing system prior to the vehicle passing a vehicle traffic control site, one or more electronic commands that control vehicle traffic based on the association between the vehicle and the data output event.