Patents Assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics
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Patent number: 10759441Abstract: Among other things, information generated by sensors of a mobile phone and indicative of motion of the mobile phone and state information indicative of a state of operation of the mobile phone are monitored. Based on the monitoring, distraction by a user of the mobile phone who is a driver of a vehicle is determined.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
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Patent number: 10672249Abstract: Among other things, information generated by sensors of a mobile phone and indicative of motion of the mobile phone and state information indicative of a state of operation of the mobile phone are monitored. Based on the monitoring, distraction by a user of the mobile phone who is a driver of a vehicle is determined.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
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Patent number: 10529236Abstract: Among other aspects, information is received at or from a mobile device. The information is derived from one or more position or motion sensors of the mobile device. The derived information is indicative of a position or a velocity of the mobile device. The position or the velocity of the mobile device conforms to a position or a velocity of a vehicle. The derived information is used to identify a dangerous situation involving the vehicle and a person on foot or a bicyclist. A notification is provided of the dangerous situation.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.Inventor: Hari Balakrishnan
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Patent number: 10440451Abstract: A sensor tag which in use will be affixed to a vehicle for obtaining vehicle telematics data includes a battery for powering the tag and a processor running executable code to process accelerometer data. An accelerometer measures the acceleration of the tag and thereby of the vehicle, and also controls the operation of the processor. A memory is used for storing a unique tag identifier of the tag and for storing trip data including information about trips and acceleration data. Finally, a communication module is used for short range wireless communication with a mobile communications device located in the vehicle via a short range wireless communications protocol, the communication module transmitting the tag's unique identifier and a sequence of time stamped acceleration data. The mobile communications device obtains GPS data, combines this with the acceleration date and transmits this to a server for analysis.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: DISCOVERY LIMITED, CAMBRIDGE MOBILE TELEMATICSInventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Lewis David Girod, Ilan Ossin
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Publication number: 20190261069Abstract: A sensor tag which in use will be affixed to a vehicle for obtaining vehicle telematics data includes a battery for powering the tag and a processor running executable code to process accelerometer data. An accelerometer measures the acceleration of the tag and thereby of the vehicle, and also controls the operation of the processor. A memory is used for storing a unique tag identifier of the tag and for storing trip data including information about trips and acceleration data. Finally, a communication module is used for short range wireless communication with a mobile communications device located in the vehicle via a short range wireless communications protocol, the communication module transmitting the tag's unique identifier and a sequence of time stamped acceleration data. The mobile communications device obtains GPS data, combines this with the acceleration date and transmits this to a server for analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicants: Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Discovery LimitedInventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Lewis David Girod, Ilan Ossin
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Publication number: 20190236859Abstract: An approach to determining vehicle usage makes use of a sensor that provides a vibration signal associated with the vehicle, and that vibration signal is used to infer usage. Usage can include distance traveled, optionally associated with particular ranges of speed or road type. In a calibration phase, auxiliary measurements, for instance based on GPS signals, are used to determine a relationship between the vibration signal and usage. In a monitoring phase, the determined relationship is used to infer usage from the vibration signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: CAMBRIDGE MOBILE TELEMATICS, INC.Inventor: William Francis Bradley
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Patent number: 10262530Abstract: Customize safe speeds for vehicles are determined from information that is collected from multiple trips and multiple drivers across many road segments. The information collected includes the speed traveled along the road segment, possibly along with additional information, such as (for example) driver, time of day, day of week, weather and road conditions, angle of the sun or other factors. Given information from a new trip, the driver's speed can be compared on each road segment with relevant data from previous trips (from e.g., similar roads, weather conditions, drivers). The comparison yields a score representing the safety of the driver's speed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: William Francis Bradley, Hari Balakrishnan, Paresh Govind Malalur
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Patent number: 10246037Abstract: Among other things, a documentation of a crash involving a vehicle is generated automatically. Telematics data is received that has been produced by one or more sensors associated with a telematics device at the vehicle. Based on the telematics data, a vehicle crash period is determined that begins at a start time and ends at an end time of the vehicle crash. Based on the telematics data, one or more metrics are determined associated with the vehicle during the vehicle crash period. Based on one or more metrics, a human-readable documentation of the vehicle crash is generated automatically.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.Inventors: Kimberly Shea, Geronimo Mirano, Jun-geun Park, William Bradley
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Publication number: 20180338223Abstract: Among other things, an operation of a computational device in identifying a type of a given trip of a person is improved. Historical information is stored about prior trips of the person or of other people or both. The historical information is based on other than recorded motion data of the trips. Features are derived about the prior trips from the historical information. Features indicative of the type of the given trip are identified by the computational device. The type of the given trip is identified based on the features derived from the historical information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.Inventor: Jun-geun Park
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Publication number: 20180332456Abstract: A system for tracking objects includes tracking devices each attached to an object to be tracked and including a short range communications module. A server includes a processor and a memory. A mobile communications device (typically a mobile telephone) includes memory for storing an identification of the mobile device, a long range communication module for communication over a cellular communication network and a short range communications module for receiving short range signals transmitted from tracking devices. The mobile telephone also includes a location determination module to determine the location of the mobile telephone. On receipt of a short range distress signal from a tracking device, a location is obtained from the location module and a signal transmitted to the server including at least the identification of the tracking device, a time of receipt of the short range signal from the tracking device and the determined location of the tracking device when the short range signal was received.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicants: Discovery Limited, Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Ilan Ossin, Hari Balakrishnan, Lewis David Girod
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Publication number: 20180324569Abstract: A system for tracking objects includes tracking devices each attached to an object to be tracked and including a short range communications module. A server includes a processor and a memory. A mobile communications device (typically a mobile telephone) includes memory for storing an identification of the mobile device, a long range communication module for communication over a cellular communication network and a short range communications module for receiving short range signals transmitted from tracking devices. The mobile telephone also includes a location determination module to determine the location of the mobile telephone. On receipt of a short range distress signal from a tracking device, a location is obtained from the location module and a signal transmitted to the server including at least the identification of the tracking device, a time of receipt of the short range signal from the tracking device and the determined location of the tracking device when the short range signal was received.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicants: Discovery Limited, Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Ilan Ossin, Hari Balakrishnan, Lewis David Girod
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Patent number: 10015654Abstract: A system for tracking objects includes tracking devices each attached to an object to be tracked and including a short range communications module. A server includes a processor and a memory. A mobile communications device (typically a mobile telephone) includes memory for storing an identification of the mobile device, a long range communication module for communication over a cellular communication network and a short range communications module for receiving short range signals transmitted from tracking devices. The mobile telephone also includes a location determination module to determine the location of the mobile telephone. On receipt of a short range distress signal from a tracking device, a location is obtained from the location module and a signal transmitted to the server including at least the identification of the tracking device, a time of receipt of the short range signal from the tracking device and the determined location of the tracking device when the short range signal was received.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: Discoery Limited, Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Ilan Ossin, Hari Balakrishnan, Lewis David Girod
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Patent number: 9900747Abstract: Among other things, an operation of a computational device in identifying a type of a given trip of a person is improved. Historical information is stored about prior trips of the person or of other people or both. The historical information is based on other than recorded motion data of the trips. Features are derived about the prior trips from the historical information. Features indicative of the type of the given trip are identified by the computational device. The type of the given trip is identified based on the features derived from the historical information.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Inc.Inventor: Jun-geun Park
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Patent number: 9842438Abstract: An approach to determining vehicle usage makes use of a sensor that provides a vibration signal associated with the vehicle, and that vibration signal is used to infer usage. Usage can include distance traveled, optionally associated with particular ranges of speed or road type. In a calibration phase, auxiliary measurements, for instance based on GPS signals, are used to determine a relationship between the vibration signal and usage. In a monitoring phase, the determined relationship is used to infer usage from the vibration signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Inc.Inventors: William Francis Bradley, Lewis David Girod, Hari Balakrishnan, Greg Padowski
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Patent number: 9661480Abstract: A lock button of a mobile device with an iOS operating system, to be used by a user to effect an action when the mobile device is in the locked state, is enabled for other functions by executing an application on the mobile device. When the mobile device is in a locked state, the application is in a dormant mode. The OS of the mobile device monitors for a change of location of the device and/or for the receipt of a short range wireless data signal. Upon detecting either, the operating system communicates this to the application which in response enters a background mode and monitors the on/off state of a screen of the mobile device. If the screen state changes at least twice within a predetermined period of time, the application effects an action, such as sending a panic signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignees: Discovery Limited, Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Ilan Ossin, Samuel Ross Madden
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Publication number: 20170142543Abstract: A system for tracking objects includes tracking devices each attached to an object to be tracked and including a short range communications module. A server includes a processor and a memory. A mobile communications device (typically a mobile telephone) includes memory for storing an identification of the mobile device, a long range communication module for communication over a cellular communication network and a short range communications module for receiving short range signals transmitted from tracking devices. The mobile telephone also includes a location determination module to determine the location of the mobile telephone. On receipt of a short range distress signal from a tracking device, a location is obtained from the location module and a signal transmitted to the server including at least the identification of the tracking device, a time of receipt of the short range signal from the tracking device and the determined location of the tracking device when the short range signal was received.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicants: Discovery Limited, Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Ilan Ossin, Hari Balakrishnan, Lewis David Girod
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Publication number: 20170086038Abstract: A lock button of a mobile device with an iOS operating system, to be used by a user to effect an action when the mobile device is in the locked state, is enabled for other functions by executing an application on the mobile device. When the mobile device is in a locked state, the application is in a dormant mode. The OS of the mobile device monitors for a change of location of the device and/or for the receipt of a short range wireless data signal. Upon detecting either, the operating system communicates this to the application which in response enters a background mode and monitors the on/off state of a screen of the mobile device. If the screen state changes at least twice within a predetermined period of time, the application effects an action, such as sending a panic signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicants: Discovery Limited, Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Ilan Ossin, Samuel Ross Madden
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Patent number: 9228836Abstract: Accurate longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration (perpendicular to the principal direction of motion, and velocity, is inferred by processing raw data from a commodity three-axis accelerometer that may be oriented arbitrarily in a moving vehicle (or carried by a moving user), and whose orientation and position may change arbitrarily during the motion. The approach is applicable to a range of applications, including insurance telematics, driver behavior and risk assessment, and road surface quality assessment.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Lewis D. Girod, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden
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Publication number: 20140278206Abstract: Accurate longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration (perpendicular to the principal direction of motion, and velocity, is inferred by processing raw data from a commodity three-axis accelerometer that may be oriented arbitrarily in a moving vehicle (or carried by a moving user), and whose orientation and position may change arbitrarily during the motion. The approach is applicable to a range of applications, including insurance telematics, driver behavior and risk assessment, and road surface quality assessment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Lewis D. Girod, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden
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Patent number: 8457880Abstract: An approach to telematics using mobile devices provides battery-efficient trajectory and mileage inference from inaccurate and intermittent location data. Accurate trajectories of how users or vehicles move in the physical world are formed by processing raw position estimates obtained from noisy, inaccurate, and error-prone position sensors on mobile devices, where the position data may also arrive intermittently with long time gaps. The trajectory is formed using the process of map matching, which determines the trajectory on a map that best explains the sequence of position observations.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Cambridge Mobile TelematicsInventors: Paresh Govind Malalur, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden