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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2016
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Mark E. Clauss, Bloomington, IL (US);
David W. Thurber, Sherman, IL (US);
Matthew Eric Riley, Sr., Heyworth, IL (US);
Richard J. Lovings, Bloomington, IL (US);
Steven J. Balbach, Bloomington, IL (US);
Nicholas R. Baker, Normal, IL (US);
J. Lynn Wilson, Normal, IL (US);
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory media are described for verifying a vehicle's odometer mileage that is associated with an insurance policy. The described techniques include sending a notification to a mobile computing device requesting an update of the odometer mileage. The notification may be generated in response to the current date being within a threshold number of days prior to the insurance policy's expiration date. In response to the notification, a user may capture an image of the odometer with the mobile computing device, which may also include data indicative of the status of the mobile computing device. One or more optical character recognition (OCR) processes may be applied to the captured image to determine various odometer mileages. Aspects include verifying the odometer mileage when different OCR processes produce the same odometer mileage result and using the status of the mobile computing device to flag potentially fraudulent images.