Method and apparatus for proactive booking of a shared vehicle
AssigneeHERE Global B.V.
InventorsJerome Beaurepaire, Jens Unger, Sven Krome, Andreas Graf
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Abstract
An approach is provided for proactive booking of a shared vehicle. A routing platform determines that a user is leaving a location for a destination. The routing platform calculates a probability that the user will use a transport mode employing the shared vehicle for a route segment to the destination based on a context and a profile of the user. The routing platform initiates a creation of a proactive reservation of the shared vehicle based on determining that the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value. The proactive reservation is created without intervention of the user.
Claims17
A method for proactive booking of a shared vehicle comprising:
- monitoring a location of a user with a routing platform to determine that the user is leaving for a destination, wherein the routing platform and a mobile terminal device of the user are operatively connected over a communication network to determine the location of the user;
- calculating a probability that the user will use a transport mode employing at least one of a plurality of shared vehicles for a route segment to the destination based on the monitored location of the user, a context, and a profile of the user;
- displaying, as a map overlay in a user interface of the mobile terminal device of the user, each of the plurality of shared vehicles relative to the location of the user based on real-time transport data, and the probability of each of the plurality of shared vehicles, wherein the probability is displayed in the user interface as a probability value;
- initiating a creation of a proactive reservation of the shared vehicle based on determining that the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value;
- and
- presenting the proactive reservation as an option to select or ignore the proactive reservation in the user interface,
- wherein the proactive reservation is created without intervention of the user.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,
- monitoring a location of a user with a routing platform to determine that the user is leaving for a destination, wherein the routing platform and a mobile terminal device of the user are operatively connected over a communication network to determine the location of the user;
- calculate a probability that the user will use a transport mode employing the shared vehicle for a route segment to the destination based on the monitored location of the user, a context and, a profile of the user;
- displaying, as a map overlay in a user interface of the mobile terminal device of the user, each of the plurality of shared vehicles relative to the location of the user based on real-time transport data, and the probability of each of the plurality of shared vehicles, wherein the probability is displayed in the user interface as a probability value;
- initiate a creation of a proactive reservation of the shared vehicle based on determining that the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value;
- and
- presenting the proactive reservation as an option to select or ignore the proactive reservation in the user interface,
- wherein the proactive reservation is created without intervention of the user.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:
- monitoring a location of a user with a routing platform to determine that the user is leaving for a destination, wherein the routing platform and a mobile terminal device of the user are operatively connected over a communication network to determine the location of the user;
- calculating a probability that the user will use a transport mode employing the shared vehicle for a route segment to the destination based on the monitored location of the user, a context, and a profile of the user;
- displaying, as a map overlay in a user interface of the mobile terminal device of the user, each of the plurality of shared vehicles relative to the location of the user based on real-time transport data, and the probability of each of the plurality of shared vehicles, wherein the probability is displayed in the user interface as a probability value;
- initiating a creation of a proactive reservation of the shared vehicle based on determining that the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value;
- and
- presenting the proactive reservation as an option to select or ignore the proactive reservation in the user interface,
- wherein the proactive reservation is created without intervention of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.