Vehicle identification system and method
AssigneeRideShare Displays, Inc.
InventorsDereje M. Demisse, Steve Rose
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Abstract
A vehicle identification system includes one or more displays associated with a vehicle, and a network-accessible controller. The one or more displays are located to be visible from an exterior of the vehicle. The controller is adapted to generate a first signal with an identifier to be transmitted to a mobile communication device associated with a vehicle or its driver in response to receiving a ride request from a user. The mobile communication device associated with the vehicle or its driver is adapted to generate a second signal indicative of the identifier to be transmitted to the one or more displays. The controller is also adapted to generate a further signal for displaying an advertisement on the one or more displays.
Claims12
A computer-implemented method for a ride share service controller, comprising the steps of:
- receiving from a mobile communication device a signal indicative of a ride request for a rider;
- identifying a mobile communication device associated with a vehicle selected for responding to the ride request;
- generating an identifier for the ride request, the identifier being unique for a geographic region proximate a pickup location of the ride request;
- transmitting the identifier via a first signal to the mobile communication device associated with the vehicle for displaying the identifier on one or more displays associated with the vehicle;
- transmitting the identifier via a second signal to the mobile communication device associated with the rider;
- receiving a notification signal from at least one of the mobile communication devices associated with the vehicle or rider indicative that the rider has found the vehicle;
- receiving an ad request signal from the mobile communication device associated with the vehicle;
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- transmitting an advertisement for display on at least one of the displays associated with the vehicle in response to the ad request signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.