Julie C Jordan

US Patent:

8606512, Dec 10, 2013

Filed:

May 9, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/118021

Inventors:

Jason Brian Bogovich - Kent OH, US
Julie A. Jordan - Wheeling IL, US

Assignee:

Allstate Insurance Company - Northbrook IL

International Classification:

G01C 21/00
G08G 1/123
G01C 21/34

US Classification:

701423, 701410, 701414, 701424, 701521, 34099528

Abstract:

A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed.

US Patent:

20180201263, Jul 19, 2018

Filed:

Feb 21, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/900861

Inventors:

- Northbrook IL, US
Jason Brian Bogovich - Kent OH, US
Julie A. Jordan Peters - Libertyville IL, US

International Classification:

B60W 30/14
B60W 50/08
G06Q 40/08
B60W 30/09
G01C 21/00
B60W 50/14

Abstract:

A method is disclosed for analyzing historical accident information to adjust driving actions of an autonomous vehicle over a travel route in order to avoid accidents which have occurred over the travel route. Historical accident information for the travel route can be analyzed to, for example, determine accident types which occurred over the travel route and determine causes and/or probable causes of the accident types. In response to determining accident types and causes/probable causes of the accident types over the travel route, adjustments can be made to the driving actions planned for the autonomous vehicle over the travel route. In addition, in an embodiment, historical accident information can be used to analyze available travel routes and select a route which presents less risk of accident than others.