US 2020/0369241 A1 · Method for Vehicle Identification and Communication Between Transportation Network Company (TNC) Service Users

Abstract

A method for effective vehicle identification and communication between riders of transportation network companies (TNC), and the vehicles that are being designated to the riders. Accordingly, a system used to execute the method of the present invention conveys the information of the rider on a display device on the designated vehicle of the rider, so as to notify the rider before getting into the designated vehicle. Additionally, the present invention also helps assist blind people by conveying audio messages, such as pipe messages or announcing their names. Further, the present invention provides riders the ability to send an emergency alert, thereby ensuring a safer ride. Furthermore, the present invention enables TNCs to utilize the display device as a trade dress and as an optional platform for other media advertisements.

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Dependent claims

A vehicle identification method for riders, the system comprising:

(A) providing at least one rider account managed by at least one remote server, wherein the rider account is associated with a rider personal computing (PC) device;
(B) providing at least one vehicle account managed by the remote server, wherein the vehicle account is associated to a vehicle identifier (ID), and wherein the vehicle account is associated with a vehicle display device;
(C) receiving a confirmation notification from the rider account with the remote server, wherein the confirmation notification includes an identifier token;
(D) visually outputting the identifier token with the vehicle display device;
(E) visually outputting the identifier token with the rider PC device;
and
(F) prompting to select at least one desired action from the plurality of rider actions with the rider PC device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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