Patent ID: 8874279

Claim:
A vehicle-incident detection method, comprising: receiving vehicle data at a cloud computing system from a vehicle, the vehicle data being generated by the vehicle in response to an initial detection of a potential crash event, wherein the cloud computing system is remote from the vehicle; after receiving the data, by the cloud computing system, requesting additional vehicle data from the vehicle, the additional vehicle data being generated by the vehicle at a time subsequent to the initial detection of the potential crash event; receiving the additional vehicle data from the vehicle; and by an application resident in the cloud computing system, analyzing the vehicle data and the additional vehicle data to verify if the initially detected potential crash event occurred, the application including computer readable code embedded on a non-transitory, tangible computer readable medium for performing the analyzing; wherein: both the vehicle data and the additional vehicle data are generated by the vehicle, not by the vehicle occupant; the vehicle data includes at least a vehicle speed and a vehicle location generated by the vehicle at a time t 0 ; t 0 is the time when the potential crash event is initially detected; the additional vehicle data includes at least the vehicle speed and the vehicle location generated by the vehicle at a time t 1 ; and t 1 is a time subsequent to the initial detection of the potential crash event.