Patent ID: 9355423
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G05D,G06Q,G07F,G08G,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An autonomous droning reward system comprising: a vehicle operational data collector, wherein the vehicle operational data collector is configured to collect driving data from at least one of vehicle sensors, vehicle OBD systems, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems; and an autonomous droning reward device, comprising a processing unit comprising at least one computer processor; a memory unit; and a wireless receiver; wherein an autonomous droning reward device is configured to receive, via the wireless receiver, the driving data; determine, from the driving data, whether a lead vehicle is in an autonomous droning relationship with at least one following vehicle, wherein the driving data indicates that lead vehicle is in the autonomous droning relationship so long as the lead vehicle transmits commands to the at least one following vehicle on at least a regular interval and the at least one following vehicle uses the commands to follow the lead vehicle and automate driving based on the driving of the lead vehicle; calculate a reward amount based on at least that the lead vehicle is in the autonomous droning relationship; determine an account associated with the lead vehicle; and credit the account associated with the lead vehicle by the reward amount.