System for identifying high risk parking lots

US10204518B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · US

Inventors

• John A. Nepomuceno · Bloomington, US
• Leo Nelson Chan · Normal, US
• Steven C. Cielocha · Bloomington, US
• Roxane Lyons · Chenoa, US
• Matthew S. Megyese · Bloomington, US
• William J. Leise · Normal, US
• Jennifer Criswell Kellett · Lincoln, US
• Kristopher Keith Gaudin · Bloomington, US
• Jennifer L. Crawford · Normal, US
• Jeremy Myers · Normal, US
• Edward P. Matesevac, III · Normal, US
• Rajiv C. Shah · Bloomington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 12, 2018
• Grant date: Feb 12, 2019
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/148
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying high risk parking lots. High risk parking lots may be, for example, parking lots that pose a higher than average risk of collisions and/or theft. Auto insurance claim data may be analyzed to identify hazardous areas. A virtual navigation of roads within the hazardous area may be identified. Public parking lots within the virtual navigation map may be defined, with each public parking lot determined as either in a hazardous area or not. A vehicle may be determined to be approaching or parking in a parking lot in a hazardous area, and a nearby public parking lot not associated with the hazardous area may be selected instead. A route from a current position to the nearby public parking lot may be generated, and the vehicle may be routed to the nearby public parking lot. As a result, collisions and thefts may be reduced.