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US 10,475,143 B1Granted
Social journey
AssigneeAllstate Insurance Company
InventorsHoward Hayes, Moises Norena, Robert H. Johnson
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Abstract
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system that may facilitate communications between drivers who share a route. The system may allow communications to be sent from one driver to another driver and allow drivers to post queries to other drivers sharing a route. Computing devices in the vehicle may collect route data for the system to evaluate and to use in identifying drivers sharing a route.
Claims6
A method for reducing fuel consumption through ride sharing using a server computer communicatively coupling a first vehicle computing device, a first mobile user device, and a second mobile user device, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the server computer, a first route associated with the first mobile user device, wherein the first route comprises GPS coordinates of a current location of the first mobile user device and GPS coordinates of points on a driving route of a first vehicle;
- after receiving the first route, determining, by the server computer, that the first route shares at least one of:
- a start location, a destination location, a waypoint, an intersection, and a route segment with a stored route, wherein the stored route is a planned driving route associated with the second mobile user device;
- identifying, by the server computer, that the first route associated with the first mobile user device and the stored route associated with the second mobile user device are a shared route including not matching a first route with a stored route when the driving route of the first route is in an opposite direction along the shared route than a direction of the stored route;
- responsive to the identifying that the first mobile user device and the second mobile user device are associated with the shared route, selecting, by the server computer, the first vehicle for ride sharing by the second mobile user device;
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- transmitting, by the server computer, a notification to the second mobile user device informing a user of the second mobile user device that the first vehicle has been selected for ride sharing,
- wherein fuel consumed by the first vehicle by traversing the driving route associated with the first mobile user device and the stored route associated with the second mobile user device, wherein at least a portion of the driving route and stored route are the shared route, is less than total fuel consumed by the first vehicle and a second vehicle separately traversing, respectively, the first route and the stored route.
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A method for reducing fuel consumption through ride sharing using a server computer communicatively coupling a first vehicle computing device, a first mobile user device, and a second mobile user device, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the server computer, a first route associated with the first mobile user device, wherein the first route comprises GPS coordinates of a current location of the first mobile user device and GPS coordinates of points on a driving route of a first vehicle;
- after receiving the first route, determining, by the server computer, that the first route shares at least one of:
- a start location, a destination location, a waypoint, an intersection, and a route segment with a stored route, wherein the stored route is a planned driving route associated with the second mobile user device;
- identifying, by the server computer, that the first route associated with the first mobile user device and the stored route associated with the second mobile user device are a shared route;
- responsive to the identifying that the first mobile user device and the second mobile user device are associated with the shared route, selecting, by the server computer, the first vehicle for ride sharing by the second mobile user device;
- transmitting, by the server computer, a notification to the second mobile user device informing a user of the second mobile user device that the first vehicle has been selected for ride sharing;
- determining a safety rating for the first route;
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- transmitting the first route to the second mobile user device responsive to the safety rating being above a threshold,
- wherein fuel consumed by the first vehicle by traversing the driving route associated with the first mobile user device and the stored route associated with the second mobile user device, wherein at least a portion of the driving route and stored route are the shared route, is less than total fuel consumed by the first vehicle and a second vehicle separately traversing, respectively, the first route and the stored route.
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A method for reducing fuel consumption through ride sharing using a server computer communicatively coupling a first vehicle computing device, a first mobile user device, and a second mobile user device, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the server computer, a first route associated with the first mobile user device, wherein the first route comprises GPS coordinates of a current location of the first mobile user device and GPS coordinates of points on a driving route of a first vehicle;
- after receiving the first route, determining, by the server computer, that the first route shares at least one of:
- a start location, a destination location, a waypoint, an intersection, and a route segment with a stored route, wherein the stored route is a planned driving route associated with the second mobile user device;
- identifying, by the server computer, that the first route associated with the first mobile user device and the stored route associated with the second mobile user device are a shared route;
- responsive to the identifying that the first mobile user device and the second mobile user device are associated with the shared route, selecting, by the server computer, the first vehicle for ride sharing by the second mobile user device;
- transmitting, by the server computer, a notification to the second mobile user device informing a user of the second mobile user device that the first vehicle has been selected for ride sharing;
- identifying, by the server computer, a merchant in proximity of the shared route;
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- transmitting at a time when the first vehicle is in proximity of the merchant, by the server computer, a notification of the merchant to the first mobile user device and the second mobile user device,
- wherein fuel consumed by the first vehicle by traversing the driving route associated with the first mobile user device and the stored route associated with the second mobile user device, wherein at least a portion of the driving route and stored route are the shared route, is less than total fuel consumed by the first vehicle and a second vehicle separately traversing, respectively, the first route and the stored route.
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