Patent ID: 11876690
Assignee: NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle data collection and evaluation system comprising:
a first vehicle data collection device and a second vehicle data collection device, each of the first vehicle data collection device and second vehicle data collection device configured to collect data associated with an operation of a vehicle, the first vehicle data collection device configured to collect a first data stream and the second vehicle data collection device configured to collect a second data stream, wherein each of the first data stream and the second data stream include time-stamped data associated with the operation of the vehicle, the time-stamped data including one or more of time-stamped speed data and time-stamped location data; and
an analytics server configured to receive the first data stream from the first vehicle data collection device and the second data stream from the second vehicle data collection, wherein the analytics sever is configured to determine a distance between the first vehicle data collection device and the second vehicle data collection device, the analytics server further configured to process the first data stream and the second data stream, the processing comprising:
(i) identifying a first time stamp associated with the first data stream, the first time stamp indicating a first time when the first data stream is collected and a second time stamp associated with the second data stream, the second time stamp indicating a second time when the second data stream is collected, the first time being within a predetermined amount of time of the second time;
(ii) comparing, within a time interval, the time-stamped data of the first data stream at the first time stamp to the time-stamped data of the second data stream at the second time stamp to generate a comparison value; and
(iii) based on the comparison value, determining whether the first data stream and the second data stream are associated with a same trip or a different trip.