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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2018
Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook, IL (US);
Hiral T. Shah, Chicago, IL (US);
Chetan Prakash Singh, Wheeling, IL (US);
Subbu Arunachalam Sankara Narayanan, Chicago, IL (US);
Paul R. Turnbull, Chicago, IL (US);
Byron J. Williams, Chicago, IL (US);
Nedier Janvier, Chicago, IL (US);
Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook, IL (US);
Abstract
According to some aspects of this disclosure a roadside assistance application programming interface (API) may allow any type of application, internet of things device, voice recognition device, and others to provide roadside assistance functionality. According to some aspects of this disclosure a device may communicate with sensors or an on-board diagnostics system of a vehicle and retrieve vehicle data. The device may recommend a service based on the vehicle data. The device may send a request for roadside assistance. The device may be used to enroll a user as a member of a roadside assistance benefits program. The above mentioned steps may all be performed via a single application running on the device. According to some aspects of this disclosure a device may process a roadside assistance request and determine a roadside assistance service provider to send to a user that requested roadside assistance.