Patents by Inventor James Stephen Higgins

James Stephen Higgins 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).

  • ADAPTATION(S) BASED ON CORRELATING HAZARDOUS VEHICLE EVENTS WITH APPLICATION FEATURE(S)
    Publication number: 20240059149
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be correlated with certain distracting application features. For example, an application of a computing device can determine that a user is occupying a vehicle and is driving toward a destination. While driving, data available to the application can indicate that an unsafe driving event, such as a hard braking event, has occurred while the user was interacting with another application. Thereafter, and based on this data, the application can render an output characterizing the correlation between the hard braking event and the other application, and/or provide the user with an option to interact with the other application via driving optimized feature(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Effie Goenawan, Austin Chang, James Stephen Higgins, David Black
  • Adaptation(s) based on correlating hazardous vehicle events with application feature(s)
    Patent number: 11801750
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be correlated with certain distracting application features. For example, an application of a computing device can determine that a user is occupying a vehicle and is driving toward a destination. While driving, data available to the application can indicate that an unsafe driving event, such as a hard braking event, has occurred while the user was interacting with another application. Thereafter, and based on this data, the application can render an output characterizing the correlation between the hard braking event and the other application, and/or provide the user with an option to interact with the other application via driving optimized feature(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Effie Goenawan, Austin Chang, James Stephen Higgins, David Black
  • ADAPTATION(S) BASED ON CORRELATING HAZARDOUS VEHICLE EVENTS WITH APPLICATION FEATURE(S)
    Publication number: 20220242233
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be correlated with certain distracting application features. For example, an application of a computing device can determine that a user is occupying a vehicle and is driving toward a destination. While driving, data available to the application can indicate that an unsafe driving event, such as a hard braking event, has occurred while the user was interacting with another application. Thereafter, and based on this data, the application can render an output characterizing the correlation between the hard braking event and the other application, and/or provide the user with an option to interact with the other application via driving optimized feature(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Effie Goenawan, Austin Chang, James Stephen Higgins, David Black