Patent ID: 11930129
Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a primary personal device within a motor vehicle for identifying personal devices associated with occupants of the motor vehicle, comprising:
detecting when the motor vehicle is moving at a velocity that exceeds a predetermined threshold velocity;
broadcasting pings that include a time stamp reporting when each ping was broadcast; and
receiving, from at least one secondary personal device associated with an occupant of the motor vehicle, a responsive ping that reports a position of the at least one secondary personal device relative to the primary personal device in response to calculating that it is probable that the secondary personal device is collocated with the primary personal device;
wherein one of the occupants of the motor vehicle is a driver of the motor vehicle, and the method further comprises identifying which of the personal devices is associated with the driver of the motor vehicle.