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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Paul Hart, Dyersburg, TN (US);
Paul Hart, Dyersburg, TN (US);
Other;
Abstract
Methods, systems and apparatus for vehicle and communication monitoring. In an aspect, a vehicle device comprising a processing subsystem, a communication subsystem that communicates over a wireless medium, and a memory subsystem that stores processing instructions that are executable by the processing subsystem and upon such execution cause the vehicle device to perform operations comprising: determining an operational status of a vehicle in which the vehicle device is located; receiving, from a communication device, operating data describing an operation being performed by the communication device; accessing usage policy data that describes a usage policy of the communication device during vehicle operation; and in response to determining, based on the operational status of the vehicle and the operation being performed by the communication device, that a usage policy violation has occurred, generating policy violation data describing the usage policy violation.