Patents by Inventor W. Ward Warkentin

W. Ward Warkentin 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: 20190236543
    Abstract: A system for backing-up tracked working hours of a driver includes a vehicle fleet, a default, system, a backup system, an internal office and operations system, and a harmonizing system. The harmonizing system harmonizes data between the default system and backup system and provides a backup if one such system should fail to provide data for a time. The default system may provide data that is used to generate driver log books. The default system may fail, in which case the data harmonization subsystem may use any available data from the backup system in place of any missing data so as to generate the generate driver log books.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventor: W. Ward Warkentin
  • Patent number: 8948996
    Abstract: Vehicle operations data is received from a plurality of data capturing devices installed at a plurality of transport vehicles. The vehicle operations data is representative of sensor output captured by the data capturing devices. Data sets are processed to obtain different vehicle safety metrics defined by the different types of sensors. An indication of non-conformance can be output when a compared vehicle safety metric does not conform to a threshold. Vehicle safety metrics can be combined into a combined representation of a categorical aspect of vehicle safety, which can be dynamically updated whenever a metric is added or removed. Combined representations can be filtered or grouped according to a reporting criterion to generate reports for drivers, units, company divisions, and the like. Vehicle operations data can be converted from multiple different formats used by different data sources to a common format used for processing metrics and combined representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fleetmetrica Inc.
    Inventor: W. Ward Warkentin
  • Publication number: 20140180556
    Abstract: Vehicle operations data is received from a plurality of data capturing devices installed at a plurality of transport vehicles. The vehicle operations data is representative of sensor output captured by the data capturing devices. Data sets are processed to obtain different vehicle safety metrics defined by the different types of sensors. An indication of non-conformance can be output when a compared vehicle safety metric does not conform to a threshold. Vehicle safety metrics can be combined into a combined representation of a categorical aspect of vehicle safety, which can be dynamically updated whenever a metric is added or removed. Combined representations can be filtered or grouped according to a reporting criterion to generate reports for drivers, units, company divisions, and the like. Vehicle operations data can be converted from multiple different formats used by different data sources to a common format used for processing metrics and combined representations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: FLEETMETRICA INC.
    Inventor: W. Ward Warkentin