US 12,354,416 B2
Vehicle fleet information service
Michael Christopher Wenneman, Seattle, WA (US); Christophe Charpentier, Seattle, WA (US); Marco Argenti, Mercer Island, WA (US); and Kunal Bhasin, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/310,442.
Application 18/310,442 is a continuation of application No. 16/581,571, filed on Sep. 24, 2019, granted, now 11,710,355.
Prior Publication US 2023/0351814 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G07C 5/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04W 12/03 (2021.01)
CPC G07C 5/008 (2013.01) [G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G07C 5/06 (2013.01); H04L 12/40013 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04W 12/03 (2021.01); G06F 2213/40 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, from a client of a vehicle information service, by the vehicle information service, a set of one or more inclusion parameters for vehicles to be included in a vehicle fleet from which data is to be collected;
collecting, by the vehicle information service, vehicle characteristic information from a set of vehicles;
determining, by the vehicle information service, based on the collected vehicle characteristic information and the one or more inclusion parameters, whether the respective ones of the set of vehicles have characteristics that satisfy the one or more inclusion parameters;
establishing, based on the determination that the respective ones of the set of vehicles have characteristics that satisfy the one or more inclusion parameters, by the vehicle information service, for vehicles of the set that satisfy the one or more inclusion parameters, respective connections between the vehicle information service and respective ones of the set of vehicles that satisfy the one or more inclusion parameters;
collecting, subsequent to the determination that the respective ones of the set of vehicles have characteristics that satisfy the one or more inclusion parameters, by the vehicle information service, data from the respective ones of the set of vehicles that satisfy the one or more inclusion parameters via the respective connections; and
providing, by the vehicle information service, a representation of one or more replica vehicles, wherein the representation indicates at least a portion of the collected data for the respective ones of the set of vehicles that satisfy the one or more inclusion parameters via the respective connections.