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Granted Patent B2
US 11,793,468 · App. 17/158,851 · Granted Oct 24, 2023

Method and system of deploying portable monitoring device

Inventor: Kimberly Williams (Des Moines, IA)
Assignee: Consumer Safety Technology, LLC
A61B5/7221A61B5/082A61B5/4845A61B5/6893G01N33/4972A61B5/0077A61B5/1112A61B2562/0219
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Patent No.
US 11,793,468
App. No.
17/158,851
Granted
Oct 24, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system and method of deploying a portable monitoring device. The method comprises inferring a rate of motion associated with the portable monitoring device; initiating, at a display screen of the portable monitoring device when the rate of motion is above a predetermined threshold, an image capture request; determining, responsive to the image capture request, a violation; and reporting the violation to a remote server communicatively coupled to the portable monitoring device.

Claims (32)

1. A method of deploying a portable monitoring device, the method comprising:

inferring a rate of motion associated with the portable monitoring device;

detecting, responsive to the inferring, a location of the portable monitoring device;

determining one of a conformance and a non-conformance of the location relative to a preassigned range of locations;

authenticating a user of the portable monitoring device based on capturing one or more images of the user within a vehicle;

ascertaining, at a monitoring logic module, a likely driving status of the user based on the one or more images; and

determining a violation responsive to the non-conformance and responsive to ascertaining the likely driving status of the user as a driver of the vehicle; and

logging the violation via a violation report module of a server computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the preassigned range of locations encompasses a vehicle driving route.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the non-conformance comprises exceeding a threshold spatial deviation from the vehicle driving route.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein ascertaining a likely driving status of the user is performed at the server computing device.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the violation is performed by the server computing device.

6. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory memory including executable instructions, the instructions when executed in the processor causing operations comprising:

inferring a rate of motion associated with a portable monitoring device;

detecting, responsive to the inferring, a location of the portable monitoring device;

determining one of a conformance and a non-conformance of the location relative to a preassigned range of locations;

authenticating a user of the portable monitoring device based on capturing one or more images of the user within a vehicle;

ascertaining, at a monitoring logic module, a likely driving status of the user based on the one or more images;

determining a violation responsive to the non-conformance and responsive to ascertaining the likely driving status of the user as a driver of the vehicle; and

logging the violation via a violation report module of a server computing device.

7. The computing device of claim 6 wherein the preassigned range of locations encompasses a vehicle driving route.

8. The computing device of claim 7 wherein the non-conformance comprises exceeding a threshold spatial deviation from the vehicle driving route.

9. A method of deploying a portable monitoring device, the method comprising:

inferring a rate of motion associated with the portable monitoring device;

detecting, responsive to the inferring, a location of the portable monitoring device;

determining one of a conformance and a non-conformance of the location relative to a preassigned range of locations;

capturing one or more images of the user within a vehicle;

ascertaining, at a monitoring logic module, a likely driving status of the user based on the one or more images; and

determining a violation responsive to the non-conformance and responsive to ascertaining the likely driving status of the user as a driver of the vehicle; and

logging the violation via a violation report module of a server computing device.

Assignments (1)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2022
From: CONSUMER SAFETY TECHNOLOGY, LLC; ALCOHOL DETECTION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, LLC
To: ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061617/0407 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 17096339 · Nov 12, 2020
Related Publication 20220142586A1 · May 12, 2022
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