Patents by Inventor Samuel Ross Madden

Samuel Ross Madden 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).

  • Patent number: 11932257
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
  • Publication number: 20230386269
    Abstract: A system can include a mobile device that includes one or more sensors for sensing information during a trip in a vehicle. A hardware processor can execute operations including receiving telematics information produced by one or more sensors during a trip in a vehicle; processing, by a hardware processor, the received telematics information to identify vehicle movement information for the vehicle during the trip; determining, by the hardware processor, a probability that an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) feature of the vehicle was operational during the trip based, at least in part, on the vehicle movement information for the vehicle during the trip; and determining, by the hardware processor, a risk score for the vehicle or a driver of the vehicle based, at least in part, on the probability that the ADAS feature was operational.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Samuel Ross Madden, William Francis Bradley
  • Publication number: 20230159034
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
  • Patent number: 11485369
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
  • Publication number: 20220327406
    Abstract: Data processing techniques and systems for processing telematics data associated with a vehicle, such as an automobile, to classify how the vehicle is being operated by a driver. The telematics data can include the use of image data captured by a camera of the vehicle. The image data is processed in conjunction with vehicular telematics data such as position, speed, and acceleration data of the vehicle obtained from, for example, smartphone sensors. The image data is processed and used by a processing system to provide a context for the telematics data. The image data and the telematics data are classified by the processing system to identify driving behavior of the driver, determine driving maneuvers that have occurred, scoring driving quality of the driver, or a combination of them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden
  • Patent number: 11315026
    Abstract: Data processing techniques and systems for processing telematics data associated with a vehicle, such as an automobile, to classify how the vehicle is being operated by a driver. The telematics data can include the use of image data captured by a camera of the vehicle. The image data is processed in conjunction with vehicular telematics data such as position, speed, and acceleration data of the vehicle obtained from, for example, smartphone sensors. The image data is processed and used by a processing system to provide a context for the telematics data. The image data and the telematics data are classified by the processing system to identify driving behavior of the driver, determine driving maneuvers that have occurred, scoring driving quality of the driver, or a combination of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden
  • Publication number: 20220114846
    Abstract: Personal safety concerns for users of vehicles can be indicated, identified, communicated, analyzed, or acted on to make the users and other participants in the technology aware of the safety concerns and to reduce the risks to the users associated with the safety concerns. Personal safety concerns can be recognized based on safety concern triggers. Once recognized, the personal safety concerns can be reported to the users and other participants in the technology by safety alerts. The safety alert can prompt one or more telematics devices at the vehicle to capture, store, or transmit telematics data, including, for example, audio, image, or video data or combinations of them. The captured telematics data can be used to verify the safety alert and the safety concern and present the captured data to a third party participant to enable the third party participant to determine an appropriate response or action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Ben Bowne, Lewis David Girod, James E. Hicks, JR., Samuel Ross Madden, Katherine Wellman
  • Patent number: 11210873
    Abstract: Personal safety concerns for users of vehicles can be indicated, identified, communicated, analyzed, or acted on to make the users and other participants in the technology aware of the safety concerns and to reduce the risks to the users associated with the safety concerns. Personal safety concerns can be recognized based on safety concern triggers. Once recognized, the personal safety concerns can be reported to the users and other participants in the technology by safety alerts. The safety alert can prompt one or more telematics devices at the vehicle to capture, store, or transmit telematics data, including, for example, audio, image, or video data or combinations of them. The captured telematics data can be used to verify the safety alert and the safety concern and present the captured data to a third party participant to enable the third party participant to determine an appropriate response or action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Ben Bowne, Lewis David Girod, James E. Hicks, Jr., Samuel Ross Madden, Katherine Wellman
  • Publication number: 20210304314
    Abstract: Among other things, instructions stored in a tangible storage medium are executable by a processor to receive data representing an attitude of a vehicle being driven relative to a frame of reference and process the received attitude data to determine a risk factor in the driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Gregory David Padowski
  • Patent number: 11074769
    Abstract: Personal safety concerns for users of vehicles can be indicated, identified, communicated, analyzed, or acted on to make the users and other participants in the technology aware of the safety concerns and to reduce the risks to the users associated with the safety concerns. Personal safety concerns can be recognized based on safety concern triggers. Once recognized, the personal safety concerns can be reported to the users and other participants in the technology by safety alerts. The safety alert can prompt one or more telematics devices at the vehicle to capture, store, or transmit telematics data, including, for example, audio, image, or video data or combinations of them. The captured telematics data can be used to verify the safety alert and the safety concern and present the captured data to a third party participant to enable the third party participant to determine an appropriate response or action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Ben Bowne, Lewis David Girod, James E. Hicks, Jr., Samuel Ross Madden, Katherine Wellman
  • Publication number: 20210114601
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
  • Publication number: 20200312063
    Abstract: Personal safety concerns for users of vehicles can be indicated, identified, communicated, analyzed, or acted on to make the users and other participants in the technology aware of the safety concerns and to reduce the risks to the users associated with the safety concerns. Personal safety concerns can be recognized based on safety concern triggers. Once recognized, the personal safety concerns can be reported to the users and other participants in the technology by safety alerts. The safety alert can prompt one or more telematics devices at the vehicle to capture, store, or transmit telematics data, including, for example, audio, image, or video data or combinations of them. The captured telematics data can be used to verify the safety alert and the safety concern and present the captured data to a third party participant to enable the third party participant to determine an appropriate response or action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Ben Bowne, Lewis David Girod, James E. Hicks, JR., Samuel Ross Madden, Katherine Wellman
  • Publication number: 20200312062
    Abstract: Personal safety concerns for users of vehicles can be indicated, identified, communicated, analyzed, or acted on to make the users and other participants in the technology aware of the safety concerns and to reduce the risks to the users associated with the safety concerns. Personal safety concerns can be recognized based on safety concern triggers. Once recognized, the personal safety concerns can be reported to the users and other participants in the technology by safety alerts. The safety alert can prompt one or more telematics devices at the vehicle to capture, store, or transmit telematics data, including, for example, audio, image, or video data or combinations of them. The captured telematics data can be used to verify the safety alert and the safety concern and present the captured data to a third party participant to enable the third party participant to determine an appropriate response or action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Ben Bowne, Lewis David Girod, James E. Hicks, JR., Samuel Ross Madden, Katherine Wellman
  • Patent number: 10759441
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
  • Patent number: 10672249
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, William Bradley, Samuel Ross Madden, Jun-geun Park
  • Publication number: 20200074326
    Abstract: Data processing techniques and systems for processing telematics data associated with a vehicle, such as an automobile, to classify how the vehicle is being operated by a driver. The telematics data can include the use of image data captured by a camera of the vehicle. The image data is processed in conjunction with vehicular telematics data such as position, speed, and acceleration data of the vehicle obtained from, for example, smartphone sensors. The image data is processed and used by a processing system to provide a context for the telematics data. The image data and the telematics data are classified by the processing system to identify driving behavior of the driver, determine driving maneuvers that have occurred, scoring driving quality of the driver, or a combination of them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden
  • Patent number: 9661480
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: Discovery Limited, Cambridge Mobile Telematics
    Inventors: Ilan Ossin, Samuel Ross Madden
  • Publication number: 20170086038
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicants: Discovery Limited, Cambridge Mobile Telematics
    Inventors: Ilan Ossin, Samuel Ross Madden
  • Patent number: 9228836
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics
    Inventors: Lewis D. Girod, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden
  • Publication number: 20150300827
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Paresh Govind Malalur, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Ross Madden