Patents by Inventor Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.

Stephen Paul McFarland, JR. 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).

  • Publication number: 20210255619
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, that a transport is unsafe to drive, decreasing functionality of the transport, by the server, by sending a cryptographic key to the transport disabling one or more component keys of the transport, and disabling the one or more component keys. Disabling the one or more component keys results in one or more of limiting the transport to not move greater than a speed, limiting the transport to not come closer than a distance to another transport, and limiting the transport to not travel greater than a threshold distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210253121
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by one or more sensors of a transport, that the transport is unsafe to operate, providing, by the one or more sensors, sensor data related to the unsafe operation to a server, receiving, from the server, transport operating parameters, and operating the transport within the transport operating parameters. The transport operating parameters limit transport functionality and are in proportion to the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210253112
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of operating, by a transport, within a boundary and determining, by the transport, that the operating of the transport within the boundary is desired to be exceeded. In response to a consensus based on one or more operations of the transport and one or more occupant characteristics of the transport, the method includes operating, by the transport, within the exceeded boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210220197
    Abstract: A method includes receiving sensor data relating to an environment from a plurality of mobility deices, determining locations of one or more points of accessibility within the environment based on the sensor data, creating an environment map based on the sensor data, and transmitting the environment map to a mobility device. The environment map includes the one or more points of accessibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
  • Patent number: 11062605
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, first data related to a damaged portion of a transport from one or more of the transport and one or more devices in proximity to the transport, analyzing, by the server, the first data to determine missing data related to the damaged portion, and requesting, by the server, the missing data from one or more other devices in first proximity to the transport when damage occurred to the damaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210174674
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of establishing geolocation boundaries based on decibels associated with an impact involving one or more transports, transmitting, by a communication device, multimedia content related to the impact to one or more other communication devices within the geolocation boundaries, and receiving, by the one or more other communication devices, the multimedia content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210174684
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of identifying a dangerous driving situation, capturing first media by a vehicle involved in the dangerous driving situation, establishing a geofence based on a distance associated with the dangerous driving situation, and capturing second media by one or more other vehicles within the geofence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210173866
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of associating a vehicle with an impact, saving media captured before and after the impact as a media segment, transmitting, by a computing device associated with the vehicle, the media segment to another computing device, and building a sound profile from the media segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210174825
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of associating a transport with an impact in proximity to one or more other transports, transmitting, by a device in proximity to the impact, media related to the impact, receiving, by a server, the media, determining, by the server, one or more sounds based on the media, and associating, by the server, the one or more sounds with one or more of the transport and the one or more other transports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210110622
    Abstract: A system for capturing data stored on a volatile memory located within a vehicle includes one or more processors, a volatile memory, and a memory device. The memory device includes a triggering module and a storage module. The triggering module causes the one or more processors to receive a first triggering signal at a first moment in time and a second triggering signal at a second moment in time. The storage module causes the one or more processors to store at least a portion of data stored on the volatile memory at the first moment in time as a first data store in a secondary memory in response to the first triggering signal and store at least a portion data stored on the volatile memory at the second moment in time as a second data store in the secondary memory in response to the second triggering signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210018587
    Abstract: A Mobility-as-a-Service (“MaaS”) system and related method for locating at least one MaaS asset includes one or more processors and a memory device in communication with the one or more processors. The memory device stores information receiving module, a location module, and a map generating module. The map generating module includes instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to receive information from at least one secondary asset having an electronic sensing device. The location module includes instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to determine a location of the MaaS asset based on the information from the secondary asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Alyssa M. Pipe, Gagandeep Singh Saini, Stephen Paul McFarland, JR., Armin Lange, Felipe G. Salles, Michael B. Murray
  • Patent number: 10832699
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of associating a transport with an impact in proximity to one or more other transports, transmitting, by a device in proximity to the impact, media related to the impact, receiving, by a server, the media, determining, by the server, one or more sounds based on the media, and associating, by the server, the one or more sounds with one or more of the transport and the one or more other transports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20200351630
    Abstract: In one embodiment, example systems and methods relate to a providing a regional server directory that identifies local servers and vehicles that can provide services to a requesting vehicle. A geographic area such as a country is divided into a plurality of regions. Each region is associated with a plurality of local servers that provide one or more driving related services with respect to the roads and highways that pass through their associated region. The services may include traffic light statuses, traffic speed and flow information, weather information, accident information, etc. The regional servers may further identify one or more other vehicles in their associated region that can similarly provide services. On a periodic basis, each of these regional servers communicates their associated regions and provided services to a directory server. The directory server may be one or more servers who address is known to vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Vladimeros Vladimerou, Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.