	US 11,810,053 B2
	Methods and systems for detecting delivery trip events and improving delivery driver safety
Ananda Sankaran, Plano, TX (US); Tiffany Buettner, Plano, TX (US); Taniya Riar, Plano, TX (US); Alex Kuznicki, Plano, TX (US); and Munawer Baig, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to Yum Connect, LLC, Louisville, KY (US)
Filed by Yum Connect, LLC, Louisville, KY (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/559,937.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/133,197, filed on Dec. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0207477 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/35 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)

CPC G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0635 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/35 (2018.02); H04W 4/38 (2018.02); H04W 4/40 (2018.02)]

6 Claims

1. A method for monitoring and detecting driving events occurring during a delivery trip event for delivery of a product from a home store location to a delivery address, the method comprising:

receiving customer order information for delivery of a product, the received customer order information identifying the product and the delivery address;

storing, at a remote server, a customer order associated with the received customer order information;

dispatching for delivery the customer order, comprising, wirelessly communicating a delivery dispatch message identifying the customer order and the delivery address to a mobile delivery device, wherein the mobile delivery device is associated with a delivery driver;

receiving, at the remote server, a dispatch message indicating the customer order has been dispatched to the mobile delivery device and comprising an identification of the mobile delivery device, and associating, at the remote server, the mobile delivery device with the stored customer order;

detecting a start of a delivery trip event;

responsive to detecting the start of the delivery trip event, activating a tracking and safety data collection and transmission process within the mobile delivery device;

responsive to detecting the start of the delivery trip event, determining a sampling rate for obtaining sensor data during the delivery trip event;

responsive to detecting the start of the delivery trip event, automatically collecting and storing, at the mobile delivery device, global positioning sensor (GPS) sensor data generated during the delivery trip event from one or more sensors disposed within the mobile delivery device, wherein the mobile delivery device is carried by a delivery vehicle, wherein the GPS sensor data is collected at the determined sampling rate, and wherein the sensor data comprises acceleration data and position data;

processing, at the mobile delivery device, the acceleration data and detecting an occurrence of one or more predetermined driving events based on the acceleration data, and associating position data with the detected driving event;

determining a priority for information identifying the detected driving event and the associated position data;

determining, based on the priority, a transmission window for the detected driving event and the associated position data,

transmitting to the remote server during the transmission window, information identifying the detected driving event and associated position data;

transmitting from the remote server to a device disposed at the home store location, a notification of the one or more detected driving events; and

displaying on a display at the home store location, information identifying the one or more detected driving events detected during the delivery trip event,

wherein detecting a driving event occurring during the delivery trip event comprises:

comparing the acceleration data to one or more event thresholds stored in the mobile delivery device; and

detecting the occurrence when the acceleration data exceeds the one or more event thresholds stored within the mobile delivery device,

wherein the one or more event thresholds comprise at least one of the following:

greater than about 2 meters/second²for forward acceleration,

greater than about 3 meters/second²for braking, and

greater than about 3 meters/second²for right/left turn acceleration,

wherein transmitting to the remote server during the transmission window, information identifying the detected driving event and associated position data comprises transmitting the information at a predetermined rate equal to a period of time between one of the following:

about 1 second and 100 seconds,

about 5 seconds and 30 seconds, or

about 8 seconds and 15 seconds, and

wherein the GPS sensor data is collected and stored at the mobile delivery device at a rate wherein each sample of GPS sensor data is obtained between about 0.1 second and 2 seconds.