Method and apparatus for requesting a transport vehicle from a mobile device
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsSai Pradeep Venkatraman, Meghna Agrawal, Weihua Gao
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Abstract
Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to request a transport vehicle. Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a transport vehicle to respond to a request from a mobile device. Various embodiments include customer and transport authentication and security techniques. Various embodiments include location update techniques to enable a transport vehicle to navigate to a mobile device, even in areas of low position accuracy for traditional GNSS and terrestrial transceiver-based systems.
Claims15
A method, in a transport vehicle, of responding to a mobile device pickup request, comprising:
- receiving, at a first transceiver, a pickup request, a location of a mobile device and a response code from a dispatch server;
- navigating to the location of the mobile device or to a proximal location thereof;
- sending, using a second transceiver, a transport identifier code to the mobile device;
- receiving, using the second transceiver, the response code from the mobile device;
- and
- enabling door access to the transport vehicle.
A transport vehicle for responding to a mobile device pickup request, comprising:
- one or more processing units;
- a first wireless transceiver coupled to the one or more processing units;
- and
- a second wireless transceiver coupled to the one or more processing units;
- wherein the one or more processing units are configured to:
- receive, using the first wireless transceiver, a pickup request, a location of a mobile device and a response code from a dispatch server;
- navigate, using a navigation system, to the location of the mobile device or to a proximal location thereof;
- send, using the second wireless transceiver, a transport identifier code to the mobile device;
- receive, using the second wireless transceiver, the response code from the mobile device;
- and
- enable, using a security system on the transport vehicle, door access to the transport vehicle.
A mobile device, comprising:
- means for determining a location of the mobile device;
- means for sending the location of the mobile device and a request for pickup to a dispatch server;
- means for receiving a first transport identifier and a response code from the dispatch server;
- means for receiving a second transport identifier from a transport vehicle;
- means for determining that the first transport identifier and the second transport identifier correspond;
- and
- means for sending the response code to the transport vehicle in response to the determination that the first transport identifier and the second transport identifier correspond.
An apparatus on a transport vehicle for responding to a pickup request from a mobile device, comprising:
- means for receiving, at a first transceiver, the pickup request, a location of the mobile device and a response code from a dispatch server;
- means for navigating to the location of the mobile device or to a proximal location thereof;
- means for sending, from a second transceiver, a transport identifier code to the mobile device;
- means for receiving, at the second transceiver, the response code from the mobile device;
- and
- means for enabling door access to the transport vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.