Patents by Inventor Alan Paul Greubel

Alan Paul Greubel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Vehicle driver identification using portable device
    Patent number: 9402174
    Abstract: A network device associates a fleet vehicle with a driver of it. The network device receives customer input associating a group of media access control (MAC) addresses of portable devices with driver identifiers and stores, in a memory, the MAC addresses associated with the driver identifiers. The network device also receives, from a vehicle telematics unit, a vehicle identifier of a vehicle connected to the vehicle telematics unit and a MAC address of a particular portable device proximate the vehicle. Based on the MAC address of the particular portable device, the network device associates a particular driver identifier and the vehicle identifier. The vehicle telematics unit may determine that driver is no longer driving when it can no longer detect a signal from the particular portable device that was proximate the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Telematics Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Paul Greubel
  • VEHICLE DRIVER IDENTIFICATION USING PORTABLE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140328248
    Abstract: A network device associates a fleet vehicle with a driver of it. The network device receives customer input associating a group of media access control (MAC) addresses of portable devices with driver identifiers and stores, in a memory, the MAC addresses associated with the driver identifiers. The network device also receives, from a vehicle telematics unit, a vehicle identifier of a vehicle connected to the vehicle telematics unit and a MAC address of a particular portable device proximate the vehicle. Based on the MAC address of the particular portable device, the network device associates a particular driver identifier and the vehicle identifier. The vehicle telematics unit may determine that driver is no longer driving when it can no longer detect a signal from the particular portable device that was proximate the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: HTI IP, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Alan Paul Greubel