Patent Issued for Risk Behavior Detection Methods Based on Tracking Handset Movement within a Moving Vehicle (USPTO 9672568)

Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Allstate Insurance Company (Northbrook, IL) has been issued patent number 9672568, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors (see also Insurance Companies).

The patent's inventors are Slusar, Mark V. (Chicago, IL); Kleinhenz, Joseph (Bolingbrook, IL); Huls, Eric D. (Chicago, IL).

This patent was filed on May 15, 2014 and was published online on June 6, 2017.

From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: "Telematics devices are used by insurance companies to monitor driving behavior for the purpose of setting insurance premiums based on an analysis of the monitored data. These devices transmit various types of information to a data analysis server, including information such as the time of day in which a vehicle is most frequently operated, the mileage reading of the vehicle, the number of times the vehicle is driven over a predetermined threshold (e.g., 80 mph, etc.), and instances of hard braking and quick acceleration, among other things.

"Telematics programs by insurance companies may offer participants the opportunity to reduce the cost of their insurance premium based on their driving behavior. While information such as the time of day and mileage reading may be helpful, additional information may be valuable to an insurance company when determining the cost of the insurance premium."

Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent: "In light of the foregoing background, the following presents a simplified summary of the present disclosure in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the disclosure. This summary is not an extensive overview of the disclosure. It is not intended to identify key or critical elements of the disclosure or to delineate the scope of the disclosure. The following summary merely presents some concepts of the disclosure in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description provided below.

"Aspects of the exemplary embodiments provide at least a method for determining a risk associated with a vehicle being driven by a driver based on data received by a computer based system. The data may comprise information that identifies movement and a position of a mobile communications device used by a driver of the vehicle over unit time. The data may further comprise telematics data such as speed, acceleration, deceleration, times of operation, duration of operation, mileage driven per day, and day of the week the vehicle is used.

"The various aspects of the exemplary embodiments are substantially shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the following figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.

"These and other advantages, aspects, and novel features of the present disclosure, as well as details of illustrated embodiments, thereof, will be more fully understood from the following description and drawings."

For the URL and additional information on this patent, see: Slusar, Mark V.; Kleinhenz, Joseph; Huls, Eric D.. Risk Behavior Detection Methods Based on Tracking Handset Movement within a Moving Vehicle. U.S. Patent Number 9672568, filed May 15, 2014, and published online on June 6, 2017. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9672568.PN.&OS=PN/9672568RS=PN/9672568

Keywords for this news article include: Insurance Companies, Allstate Insurance Company.