US 2004/0177109 A1Published application

Method of providing automatic connection service for taxis using communication network

OwnerJae-Wook Leeinventor

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Abstract

Disclosed herein is the present invention relates generally to a method of providing an automatic connection service for taxis using a communication network, and more particularly to a method of providing an automatic connection service for taxis using a communication network, in which a client can call a taxi using his mobile phone through a communication network without the client personally ascertaining his position and informing a taxi call service provider his position, a central control office ascertains a client's position and transmits information of an available taxi closest to the client's position to the client by the client accessing the central control office of the taxi call service provider, and the client selects and calls the available taxi, thus enabling the client automatically connect to a selectable taxi.

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Dependent claims

A method of providing an automatic connection service for taxis using a communication network comprising the steps of:

a client who desires to use a taxi accessing a central control office through his own mobile communication terminal;
the central control office tracking the location of the client by running its internal client location tracking database installed therein to ascertain the location information of the client;
the central control office storing an ascertained client information;
the central control office ascertaining service states of taxis under the control of the central control office, selecting an available taxi closest to the location of the client, and transmitting the location information of the client to a car navigation system of the selected available taxi;
the car navigation system of the available taxi that received the location information of the client from the central control office displaying map information in which the location information of the client is indicated on a display device of the car navigation system;
a driver of the available taxi checking the location of the client, determining whether he can reach the location of the client by considering current travel conditions such as the current state of his taxi, and informing the central control office of the determination result;
if receiving an approval signal, which indicates that it is possible to reach the location of the client, from the available taxi, the central control office calculating an optimal route to the location of the client, and tracking, ascertaining and storing a predicted arrival time and taxi information to identify the available taxi which the client has called, such as the color and number of the available taxi, extracting a phone number of the client from the stored client information, and transmitting taxi information of the available taxi to the client terminal;
and
the available taxi that received the client information from the central control office moving to the location of the client.

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A method of providing an automatic connection service for taxis using a communication network comprising the steps of:

a client who desires to use a taxi accessing a central control office through his own mobile communication terminal;
the central control office tracking the location of the client by running its internal client location tracking database installed therein to ascertain the location information of the client;
the central control office storing an ascertained client information;
if the location of the client is ascertained, the central control office ascertaining service states of taxis under the control of the central control office, and searching for an available taxi within a certain search radius;
the central control office transmitting a map page on which the location information of the searched available taxi within the certain search radius is displayed and taxi information of the available taxi within the certain search radius such as the type and number of the available taxi to the client terminal;
the client that received the location information of the available taxi from the central control office selecting the available taxi displayed in the client terminal;
the client transmitting the taxi information of the selected available taxi to the central control office;
the central control office transmitting the location information of the client to the available taxi selected by the client;
and
a driver of the available taxi that received the location information of the client moving to the location of the client.

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A method of providing an automatic connection service for taxis using a communication network comprising the steps of:

a client who desires to use a taxi accessing a central control office by executing an Internet Web browser through his own mobile communication terminal;
if receiving a call signal of the client, the central control office transmitting a page to allow the client to determine whether he requires the central control office to search for an available taxi within a certain search radius from the current location of the client or a search radius desired by the client;
the client entering his own request conditions to the page transmitted from the central control office and transmitting the entered request conditions to the central control office;
if the client requires the central control office to search for an available taxi within the certain search radius from the current location of the client, the central control office tracking the location of the client by running its internal client location tracking database installed therein to ascertain the location information of the client;
the central control office storing an ascertained client information;
the central control office ascertaining service states of taxis under the control of the central control office and searching for an available taxi within the certain search radius from the current location of the client;
if an available taxi exists within the certain search radius from the current location of the client as the search result, the central control office transmitting a map page on which the location information of the available taxi within the certain search radius is displayed and taxi information of the available taxi within the certain search radius to the client terminal;
the client that received the location information of the available taxi from the central control office selecting the available taxi displayed in the client terminal and transmitting the taxi information of the selected available taxi to the central control office;
the central control office transmitting the location information of the client to the available taxi selected by the client;
and
the available taxi moving to the location of the client.

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A method of providing an automatic connection service for taxis using a communication network comprising the steps of:

a client who desires to use a taxi accessing a central control office by executing an Internet Web browser through his own mobile communication terminal;
if receiving a call signal of the client, the central control office transmitting a page to allow the client to determine whether he requires the central control office to search for an available taxi within a certain search radius from the current location of the client or a search radius desired by the client;
the client entering his own request conditions to the page transmitted from the central control office and transmitting the entered request conditions to the central control office;
if the client requires the central control office to search for taxis within the desired search radius, the central control office searching for an available taxi within the desired search radius;
if an available taxi exists within the desired search radius as the search result, transmitting a map page on which the location information of the available taxi within the desired search radius is displayed and taxi information of the available taxi within the desired search radius, such as the type of the available taxi, the number of the available taxi and the like, to the client terminal;
the client that received the location information of the available taxi from the central control office selecting the available taxi displayed in the client terminal and transmitting taxi information of the selected available taxi to the central control office;
the central control office that received taxi information of the available taxi tracking the location of the client by running its internal client location tracking database installed therein to ascertain the location information of the client;
the central control office storing an ascertained client information;
the central center transmitting the location information of the client to the available taxi selected by the client;
and
the available taxi moving to the location of the client.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.