Maintaining a distributed ledger for VIN recordkeeping

US10733160B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · US

Inventors

• William J. Leise · Normal, US
• Jacob J. Alt · Downs, US
• Jaime Skaggs · Chenoa, US
• Eric Bellas · Bloomington, US
• Shawn M. Call · Bloomington, US
• Eric R. Moore · Heyworth, US
• Melinda Teresa Magerkurth · Utica, US
• Vicki King · Bloomington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 2, 2018
• Grant date: Aug 4, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2209/56
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems maintain a distributed ledger of transactions pertaining to a particular vehicle. The method may include (1) receiving, by one or more processors, vehicle data from one or more remote computing devices; (2) detecting, by the one or more processors, a vehicle-related event from analysis of the vehicle data; (3) identifying, by the one or more processors, a VIN of the vehicle when a vehicle-related event is detected; (4) generating, by the one or more processors, a transaction including (i) the vehicle's VIN, and (ii) describing the vehicle-related event; and (5) transmitting, by the one or more processors, to a server the transaction to facilitate maintaining a VIN-based distributed ledger for the particular vehicle.