PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257909
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["455", "420000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for detecting unsafe or suspect activities such as distracted driving associates distracted driving events to the road type, vehicle speed and vehicle acceleration (positive, negative and lateral) at the time of the distracted driving event, and identifies severe distracted driving events from a large population of minor events using a statistical distribution such as a Cauchy distribution equation. The system employs a smartphone application (App) coupled with a central server that computes driver safety scores which relate time of day, road type, vehicle speed, vehicle acceleration (positive, negative and lateral) and distracted driving using the Cauchy distribution equation. The server renders summary and detail reports of driving scores and distracted driving events to concerned parties including insurance companies, fleet managers, vehicle owners and the parents/guardians of teenaged drivers.

Claim (Index 18):
A system for tracking vehicle driving behavior by a monitoring entity, comprising:\n a personal device having an app for gathering driving parameters indicative of vehicle operation; a telematics appliance disposed in the vehicle and operable to pair with the personal device for establishing a driver presence in an operator position in the vehicle the telematics appliance affixed to the vehicle and connected to the vehicle for gathering sensor information indicative of vehicle movement; a remote server in communication with the personal device for receiving, processing and comparing the gathered driving parameters; a network interface in the device and responsive to the app for transmitting the received driving parameters to the server for determining if the associated driver is engaging in a suspect activity while driving the vehicle by performing a Cauchy distribution for comparing the received driving parameters denoting the suspect activity with a severity scale indicative of a relative risk of the suspect activity, the relative risk based on values derived from driving parameters of other drivers; the server further operable for: accumulating the gathered parameters for computing a score of the driver based on the comparison; concluding that a suspect activity is occurring based on the computed score; and reporting the determined suspect activity and the score to a repository for accumulating a driving history of the driver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92308
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15298557', '13848230', '15844114', '15914040', '15345641']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7347911443482216
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5885444704348968
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7201664769568891
- Mean Citation Score: 356.84305800000016
- Max Citation Score: 483.18472
- Similarity Product: 455.1188373697854

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test