Methods and systems related to establishing geo-fence boundaries.

(54) Title: METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GEO-FENCE LIMITS.

(54) Title: METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO ESTABLISHING GEO-FENCE BOUNDARIES.

(57) Summary

Establish geo-fence boundaries and collect data. At least some of the illustrative modalities are methods that include: detecting a vehicle that is located within a first political boundary; establish a first limit of the geo-fence for the vehicle that corresponds to the first political limit, the establishment responds to the detection that the vehicle is within the first political limit; collect data regarding the movement of the vehicle within the first limit of the geofence; and detect that the vehicle has left the first limit of the geofence.

(57) Abstract

Establishing geo-lence boundaries and collecting data. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: detecting a vehicle is located within a first political boundary; establishing a first geo-fence boundary for the vehicle corresponding to the first political boundary, the establishing responsive to detecting the vehicle is within the first political boundary; collecting data regarding the vehicle movement within the first geo-fence boundary; and detecting the vehicle has departed the first geo-fence boundary.

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PATENT TITLE No. 351806

Holders): GORDON * HOWARD ASSOCIATES, INC

Address: 861 Southpark Drive, Suite 200, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, USA

D nomination: METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GEO-FENCE LIMITS.

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CHRFSTOPHER M. 'JA'

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2013

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The patent in question is filed on the basis of the "1st, Frarxi ^ ntife · ^ ftaSWÉÍl", / 89 of the Industrial Property Law.

Pursuant to article 35 of the Law on Indigenous Property, it presents a patent tesftetm'avigenga of twenty years, non-extendable, counted from the date the internal application is presented to me and it will be subject to current rights.

Whoever signs this title has done so on the basis of the provisions of the BSlrfticul¿ β ^ βο «ά #« III and XWs.2 of the Industrial Property Law (Official Gazette of the Federation 06/37/1991, reterminated on ^ 994, φ / 1 &lt;^ &amp;&amp; 12/26/1998¾^{* 1} 1M0SM999, 01/26/2004, 06/16/2005,

01/25/2006, 05/06/2009, 06/01/2010, 1 ^ / 06/2010, 06/28 «Q1jD,» / 01/3012 ^ («(ρ ^ ΖΟΙ ^, ιβΛΛιΛκΙ⁰, 3 »fraec« 5j&gt; V «toteo a), 4” and 12 ° fractions I and III of the Regulations of the Mexican Institute d4 fa ** eptedad Indtfstpal (CW.fe-1<img file="MX351806B_D0003.tif" />¡MHorma ^ jal 01®3Íaíl02 /; W07 / 2004, 07/28/2004 and 09/07/2007);

Articles 1, 3^or, 4°, 5^or fraction V subsection a) ,, tí1 (Hra®iartS4j ^ ll &lt;3 ^ * exicano of Industrial Property (DOF

12/27/1999, amended on 10/10/2002, 07/29/20QO ^ / 2 (»4 p, ¡ί» V o that delegates powers to the Directors

Deputy Generals, Coordinator, Directors DiwoarMbr * 42etulaite $ ela # _ s, Divisional Assistant Directors, Coordinators

Departmentals and other subordinates of the MexiCahofle Institute 1 ^ 80481 ^ 141 (^ 1081: ^^ 8 ^^ 5/12/1999, reformed on 02/04/2000, 07/29/2004, 08/04/2004 and 09/13 / 2007). f F *

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This document is signed with an advanced electronic signature (FIEL), based on articles 7 BIS 2 of the Industrial Property Law; 3 of its Regulations, and 1 section III, 2 section V, 26 BIS and 26 TER of the Agreement establishing the guidelines for the use of the Payment and Electronic Services Portal (PASE) of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, in the procedures indicated.

THE DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR OF PATENTS

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METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT

OF GEO-FENCE LIMITS

BACKGROUND

Governments, including state and federal governments, have traditionally financed public infrastructure projects from tax revenues derived from fuel taxes. States can tax fuel purchased not only by drivers within the state, but also by drivers who travel across the state. With the development and availability of hybrid and electric cars on the market, governments will need to consider new ways to derive tax revenue to finance public infrastructure. Therefore, any invention that provides information related to calculating and collecting transportation taxes would be useful.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

For a detailed description of the exemplary embodiments, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings in which:

The figure ^? 1 shows, in block diagram form, a general architecture of a system according to at least some embodiments;

Figure 2 shows an exemplary embodiment for

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Figure 3 shows an exemplary embodiment of establishing a second geofence;

Figure $ shows, in block diagram form, a monitoring module according to at least some modalities;

Figure 5 shows, in block diagram form, an after-sales system connected to a vehicle according to at least some embodiments;

Figure 6 shows a computing system according to at least some modalities; Y

Figure 7 shows, in block flow diagram form, a method according to at least some embodiments.

ANNOTATION AND NOMENCLATURE

Certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular components of the system. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, different companies may refer to a component and / or a method by different names. This document is not intended to distinguish between components and / or methods that differ in name but not in function.

In the following discussion and in the claims, the terms including and comprising r&gt; and 1 a are used in an open manner, and thus should be construed as including, but not limited to ... Also, the term couple or couple is intended to mean either an indirect or direct connection. In this way, if a first device is coupled to a second device, that connection can be through a direct connection or through an indirect connection through other devices and connections.

Remote must mean a kilometer or more.

Political Boundary must mean the geographic boundary of a political entity or legal jurisdiction.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The following discussion addresses various embodiments of the invention. Although one or more of these embodiments may be preferred, the described embodiments should not be construed, or otherwise used, to limit the scope of the description, including the claims. Furthermore, one skilled in the art will understand that the following description has broad application, and the disclosure of any embodiment is to be understood only as exemplary of that embodiment, and not intended to suggest that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, is limited to that modality.

Various modalities are aimed at configuring and creating a geo-fence boundary that corresponds to the size and shape

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of a political boundary once it is detected that a vehicle has crossed into the area defined by the political boundary, as well as collecting data related to the movement of the vehicle within the boundary of the geo-fence. The specification first moves toward an illustrative system.

Figure 1 shows, in block diagram form, a system according to at least some embodiments. In particular, the system comprises an operations center 100 communicatively coupled to a vehicle 120 via a wireless network 112. The operations center 100 comprises a processor 102. In some embodiments, the processor 102 may be a standalone computer system, or the processor may comprise a plurality of computer systems communicatively coupled and performing the operations center functions, the functions being discussed more fully below. . Processor 102 can be coupled to an administrative user interface 104. The administrative user interface 104 may allow a system administrator 114 to control or configure the operation of the system. In some embodiments, the processor 102 can also be coupled to a proprietary user interface 106, which likewise allows the vehicle owner to interact with the system.

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The operations center 100 can further understand a mapping module 110 coupled to the processor 102. According to at least some embodiments, the mapping module 110 is a self-contained computing system that runs software to perform a mapping function associated with the location. vehicle 120 and any geofence boundaries that can be set. In still other embodiments, the mapping module 110 may be a computer program or program package that operates or executes on the processor 102.

To communicate with the vehicle 120, the operations center may further comprise a network interface 108 communicatively coupled to the processor 102. Via the network interface, the processor 102, and any program running on it, may communicate with vehicle 120, such as via wireless network 112. Wireless network 112 is illustrative of any suitable communication network, such as a cellular network, pager network, or other mechanism for transmitting information between operations center 100 and vehicle 120.

According to at least some embodiments, the operations center 100 is located remotely from the vehicle 120. In some cases, the operations center 100 and vehicle 120 may be located within the same city or state. In other cases, the operations center 100 may be many hundreds or thousands of miles from the vehicle 120, and

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in this way the illustrative wireless network 112 can span several different types of communication networks.

Still referring to FIG. 1, the system further comprises a vehicle 120 communicatively coupled to operations center 100 via illustrative wireless network 112. Vehicle 120 may comprise a computer system 126 communicatively coupled to an interface of wireless network 122 and To a monitoring system 124. Wireless network interface 122 allows computer system 126 to communicate with operations center 100 via wireless transmission over wireless network 112. Monitoring system 124 can assist computer system 126 and / or operations center 100 in determining when vehicle 120 has crossed into, or exited from, a geofence boundary, and can also assist computer system. 126 and / or operations center 100 to collect data regarding the movement of vehicle 120 within an established geofence boundary. Various techniques for detecting a vehicle that is within a political boundary, as well as for determining whether vehicle 120 has left the geofence boundary, will be discussed more fully later.

The specification now goes to a high-level description to detect a vehicle that falls within a political boundary and automatically set a boundary

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Still referring to FIG. 2, in response to the detection that vehicle 120 has crossed a political boundary 202, a boundary of geofence 204 is automatically set which has the shape and size corresponding to political boundary 202. More particularly, a limit of the geo-fence 204 is automatically established that corresponds to the borders of the political limit 202. The establishment is without any entry being made by an administrator, the owner of the vehicle, or an outside agent when the vehicle 120 crosses into the state. Note that in this example, the boundary of geo-fence 204 lines up with the Texas state line; However, the geo-fence boundary may align with another political boundary such as county boundaries, city limits, or

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Figure 3 shows a graphic representation of vehicle 120 crossing from the first political boundary to a second political boundary. In particular, in the example of Figure 3, vehicle 120 crossed from the political boundary 202 which is the state of Texas to the political boundary 302 which is the state of New Mexico. In the example of FIG. 3, the system determines that vehicle 120 has crossed from political boundary 202 to political boundary 302. Upon detecting that the vehicle 120 is now located within the political limit 302, in this example, a limit of the geofence 304 is automatically established that has the shape and size corresponding to the political limit 302. Additionally, at this point, the limit of geo-fence 202 that corresponds to the size and shape of the political boundary of the state of Texas is unsettled. The establishment of the boundary of the geo-fence 302 is without any entry being made by an administrator, vehicle owner, or external agent when the vehicle 120 crosses into the state. It should be noted that in this example the boundary of the geofence aligns with the

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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GEO-FENCE

Establishment of the Geo-Fence Operations Center

In some cases, the mapping module 110 of the remote operations center 100 may play a role in establishing the geofence when the vehicle 120 crosses into a political boundary. In particular, the mapping module can periodically receive information from the vehicle regarding the location of the vehicle. In the example of FIG. 3, at or near the time vehicle 120 crosses a political boundary, the location of vehicle 120 can be provided to mapping module 110. The mapping module 110 can then determine that the vehicle 120 has crossed the political boundary 202 that corresponds to the Texas state boundary and into the 302 political boundary that corresponds to the state of New Mexico. Mapping module 110 (in combination with programs running on processor 102) upon detecting that vehicle 120 is located within New Mexico's 302 political boundary in this example, creates a geo-fence 304 boundary that corresponds to the size and shape of the state of New Mexico. Thus, in these modalities, the operations center 100 establishes the corresponding geo-fence boundary. Additionally, at this point, the boundary of geo-fence 202, which corresponds to the size and shape of the political boundary of the state of Texas, is disestablished.

Establishment of the Geo-Fence Vehicle

In still other cases, systems within vehicle 120 establish the geofence. In order to deal with the modalities of the vehicle that establishes the limits of the qeo-fence, the discussion briefly addresses a more detailed description of the monitoring system 124. In particular, Figure 4 shows, in block diagram form, the monitoring system 124 in greater detail. According to at least some embodiments, the monitoring system 124 comprises a GPS receiver 402, as well as an odometer 404 (discussed below in connection with determining the mileage traveled within the political limit). The GPS system comprises a plurality of satellites that transmit very precise timing signals. The GPS receiver 402, which receives a plurality of the timing signals, can determine not only the location of the GPS receiver

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126. The computer system 126 processes the information received from the GPS receiver 402, and establishes an appropriate geo-fence boundary related to the political boundary through which the vehicle 122 has crossed (eg, the crossing from the state of Texas to the state of New Mexico, discussed with respect to figure 3).

Regardless of how the geofence boundary is established, once the geofence boundary is established, according to various modalities, data is collected regarding the movement of vehicle 120 within the political boundary. In this way, the specification is now directed to exemplary systems for collecting data regarding the movement of the vehicle.

DATA COLLECTION REGARDING MOVEMENT

Mileage Tracking via GPS and Vehicle

The GPS receiver 402, in addition to helping to determine the location of the vehicle with respect to various political boundaries, in some cases also plays a role in collecting data regarding the movement of the vehicle.

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For example, in some embodiments the GPS receiver 402 alone can track the mileage traveled by the vehicle 120 while the vehicle is within political jurisdiction. In still other cases, GPS receiver 402 may work with computer system 126 to track mileage. For example, the computer system 126 may receive periodic or continuous location information from the GPS receiver, and may use the information to calculate the updated vehicle locations, thereby determining the number of miles traveled between updates.

Mileage Tracking through GPS and Operations Center

In still other embodiments, operations center 100 may be responsible for tracking mileage traveled within a political boundary. For example, GPS receiver 402 and computer system 126 may periodically send vehicle location indications to operations center via wireless network 112. In some embodiments, the periodic dispatch could be time-based (eg, the GPS receiver 402 and computer system 126 send a location indication every minute when the vehicle is in motion, or every ten minutes). In still other cases, periodic dispatch may be location-based (eg, the GPS 402 receiver and computer system

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126 they send a location indication every mile, ten miles, or 100 miles when the vehicle is in motion). In this way, the processor 102 of the operations center 100 can track the mileage traveled by the vehicle based on the data collected by the devices associated with the vehicle; the data indicates directly or indirectly the mileage traveled. In yet another embodiment, the GPS receiver 402 and computer system 126 may send a vehicle location indication 120 only during times that the vehicle's ignition system is on (eg, the engine is running). In this way, in this mode, the miles are tracked by the GPS receiver if the vehicle is being driven, and not if the vehicle is moving in another way due to means other than driving (eg, being towed or another method of driving). transport).

Furthermore, in some cases the operations center 100 may track the mileage despite the fact that the devices associated with the vehicle have the ability (eg, to prevent tampering). Determining the amount of mileage traveled is not limited to the GPS system, and other methods of determining mileage driven are possible.

Determination of Odometer / Vehicle Mileage

Still referring to figure 4, in addition to, or in

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Determination of Mileage from Odometer / Operations Center

In still other embodiments, the data collection regarding the vehicle movement can be performed by the operations center 100 which receives information from the odometer 404. In particular, in some cases the operations center may receive periodic or continuous updates regarding the indication of the odometer 404, updates are sent from vehicle 120 via

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Data Storage and Access

Regardless of the method by which the mileage traveled by the vehicle 120 is determined, collected and transmitted, the data collected corresponding to the mileage traveled is eventually provided to the external agent 118, such as a representative of the political boundary in which the vehicle is located or from which it just came out. The representative of the political boundary in Figure 1 can be an external agent 118, but the external agent 118 is not limited to a representative of the political boundary and can be another interested party, such as the driver or owner of the vehicle or a system administrator . The exposure of the provision of data to the external agent 118 begins with cases where the indication of the mileage traveled is determined by the devices of the vehicle 120 without assistance from the operations center. In particular, in one embodiment, the collected data corresponding to the mileage traveled can be stored in memory within the computer system 126. The extraction of the data stored in memory within the computer system 126 can be performed by communicatively coupling a system computing directly to

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In yet another embodiment, vehicle 120 may have the ability to transmit data directly, either continuously or periodically, such as via wireless network interface 122 through wireless network 112. However, in other cases, the collected data by vehicle 120 they may be transmitted via wireless transmission over wireless network 112 to operations center 100 before being sent to a foreign agent 118.

Now consider the situation where operations center 100 is responsible for data collection

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Consider still the cases where the indication of the mileage traveled is determined by the operations center 100, in another mode the collected mileage data can be stored in a removable storage device coupled to the processor 100, such as: a USB memory drive ; CompactFlash card; or Secure Digital card. At some point after the data has been collected on the removable storage device, an external agent can remove the removable storage device to manually extract the data stored in memory.

In yet another embodiment, the data center 100 may directly transmit data, either continuously or periodically to the external agent. The direct transmission of the data can be through the wireless network 112, but

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In cases where the data is stored and then sent to the outside agent, and regardless of whether the storage is at the operations center 100 or the vehicle 120, the data can be sent periodically, such as at five mile intervals, 50 miles, or 100 mile intervals. In yet another embodiment, odometer readings can be stored or sent the moment the vehicle enters a political boundary, and again when the vehicle exits a political boundary.

Referring now to FIG. 5, in some embodiments, wireless network interface 122, computer system 126, and monitoring system 124 may be part of vehicle 120 as purchased from the manufacturer or dealer. However, in other embodiments, the wireless network interface, the computer system, and the monitoring system may be a third party aftermarket system 502. In particular, Figure 5 shows, in block diagram form, the aftermarket system 502 coupled to the vehicle 120 by means of an electrical connector 504. In some embodiments, the aftermarket system 502 can be mechanically coupled to the interior of a vehicle 120, such as as inside the board. In other embodiments, the aftermarket system 502 can be attached to any suitable location, such as

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In some modes, the operations center can be configured to receive periodic transmissions from the on-board device even when there is no active data collection, so if the on-board device is disabled or inoperative, the lack of transmissions can cause an alert is issued to indicate tampering with the device, such as attempting to alter the number of miles driven by turning off the device, or by physically altering the value of mileage collected.

Now the specification goes to the preconfiguration and specification of the geo-fence boundary. In particular, the size and shape of any geofence boundary that can be created in response to a vehicle entering a political boundary, can be initially preconfigured by a system administrator or external agent before a vehicle is sold, rented, or otherwise given to a driver (eg, before the vehicle is driven). The geo-fence boundary can be preconfigured as a region corresponding to the size and shape of a political boundary. In one embodiment, the boundary of the geofence can correspond to the size and shape of a state. In another embodiment, the geo-fence boundary may correspond to the size and shape of a county. In yet another

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Figure 6 shows a computer system 600, which is illustrative of a computer system in which the various modalities can be practiced. The computing system 600 may be illustrative of, for example, the computing system 126 coupled to the vehicle 120. In another embodiment, the computing system 600 may be illustrative of the processor 102. In yet another embodiment, the computing system may be illustrative of computer system 508 coupled to after-sales system 502 of a third party. The computer system 600 comprises a processor 602, and the processor is coupled to a main memory 604 by means of a bridge device 606. In addition, the processor 602 can be coupled to a long-term storage device 608 (eg, a hard disk, a solid-state disk, memory card, optical disk) via the bridge device 606, and can be coupled to a storage device. removable storage 610 (eg, USB memory stick, CompactFlash card, Secure Digital card). Programs executable by processor 602 may be stored in storage device 608, or removable storage device 610, and accessed when necessary by processor 602. The program stored in storage device 608 may comprise programs to implement the various modalities of the present

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The method for setting a geofence boundary and collecting the mileage data will now be discussed in more detail. Figure 7 shows a flow chart depicting a general method for establishing a geofence and collecting data based on vehicle movement within the geofence. The method starts (blog 700), and moves to detect a vehicle that is located within a political boundary (block 702). At the point where a vehicle is detected to be located within a political boundary, a geofence boundary is automatically established that corresponds to the size and shape of the political boundary (block 704). Once the geofence is established, the system of

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From the description provided therein, those skilled in the art will easily be able to combine the created software, as described, with the special purpose or general purpose computer hardware to create a computing system and / or computing subcomponents in accordance with the various modalities to create a computing system and / or computing subcomponents to carry out the methods of the various modalities and / or create a non-transient computer-readable medium (i.e. not a carrier wave) that stores a software program to implement the method aspects of the various modalities.

References to one embodiment, the embodiment, some embodiments, various embodiments, or the like indicate that a particular element or feature is included in at least one embodiment of the invention. Although phrases can appear in multiple places, phrases do not necessarily refer to the same modality.

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The foregoing discussion is to be illustrative of the principles and various embodiments of the present invention. Numerous variations and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art once the above description is fully appreciated. For example, although the various modalities have been described in terms of a vehicle traveling within a state, however, this context should not be read as a limitation as to the scope of one or more of the described modalities, they can be used the same techniques for another automatic geofence setting, vehicle movement detection, and data calculation. The following claims are intended to be construed to include all such variations and modifications.

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