PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "029300"]

Abstract:
A vehicle electronic logging device (ELD) hour-of-service (HoS) audit and correction guidance system provides preemptive pre-violation and violation alerts and interactive vehicle log entry correction guidance for commercial vehicle operations regulatory compliance. The vehicle ELD HoS audit and correction guidance system incorporates in-vehicle sensor data output values that are machine-interpreted by a vehicle OBD device, a driver's on-duty or off-duty confirmation entries, and other driver log adjustments to analyze an electronically-generated vehicle log. Subsequently, the system determines whether some log entries are anomalous and indicative of driver log entry or adjustment errors, which may result in commercial vehicle regulatory violation if left uncorrected. The vehicle ELD HoS audit and correction guidance system then prompts and assists a driver to correct anomalous log entries to prevent regulatory violations via interactive driver auditing-mode interfaces, multimedia alerts, sirens, and multi-language voice guidance.

Claim (Index 1):
A commercial fleet-level electronic logging device (ELD) log audit and correction guidance system comprising:\n a vehicle on-board diagnostics (OBD) device connected to an engine control unit (ECU) or a vehicular control chip in a vehicle to record, diagnose, and generate an engine on or off status, vehicle speed data, acceleration and deceleration data, ambient air temperature data, and OBD fault codes as a raw OBD data stream; a vehicle electronic logging device (ELD) connected to the vehicle OBD device, wherein the vehicle ELD is configured to generate a driver-specific ELD log that contains a currently logged-in driver's on-duty, off-duty, and resting activities associated with the vehicle; an ELD and OBD data transceiver connected to the vehicle ELD, wherein the ELD and OBD data transceiver is configured to transmit ELD and OBD data to components of the commercial fleet-level ELD log audit and correction guidance system that are located outside the vehicle; a commercial vehicle-specific ELD log audit and correction guidance application executed in a first portable electronic device for the currently logged-in driver, wherein the commercial vehicle-specific ELD log audit and correction guidance application detects and identifies a potential error in the driver-specific ELD log that contains the currently logged-in driver's on-duty, off-duty, and resting activities associated with the vehicle, and wherein the commercial vehicle-specific ELD log audit and correction guidance application generates a driver auditing-mode interface and an interactive voice guidance to prompt the currently logged-in driver to correct the potential error to avoid a regulatory violation; a commercial fleet-level multiple vehicle ELD log and database management system that analyzes, stores, and categorizes a plurality of driver-specific ELD logs for a plurality of drivers and vehicles in a commercial fleet operation; and a data communication network configured to provide a wireless data information transfer among the vehicle ELD, the ELD and OBD data transceiver, the first portable electronic device, and the commercial fleet-level multiple vehicle ELD log and database management system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80233
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15497179', '15449950', '15690218', '11203280', '15843750']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4979875156992699
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5820413355773956
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5063928976870825
- Mean Citation Score: 331.589442
- Max Citation Score: 495.1961
- Similarity Product: 469.8602255661368

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test