US 2025/0148839 A1 · MANAGING THE OPERATIONAL STATE OF A VEHICLE

Abstract

A network system facilitates management of the operational states of transportation vehicles. Within a system environment, the network system also coordinates transport service between service providers operating the transportation vehicles and service requestors operating client devices. A transportation vehicle includes a processor or computing device that can determine and change operational states of the transportation vehicle. The transportation vehicle communicates operational states to one or more devices in the environment. Operational states can be communicated as vehicle datasets using a communication port of the transportation vehicle. The network system and client devices can act to enhance transport service using vehicle datasets. For example, the network system and/or client devices can manage an operational state by changing the current operational state off the transportation vehicle to a different operational state. Transport service can be enhanced at various points during the transport service coordination.

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Dependent claims

A network computer system comprising:

one or more processors;
a memory to store instructions;
wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:
communicating, over one or more networks, with multiple service provider devices to determine a current position of each service provider device;
receiving, over the one or more networks, a transport service request from a requester device, the transport service request specifying a pickup location and a destination location;
for each service provider device of the multiple service provider devices, determining (i) a vehicle route from the current position of the service provider device to the pickup location, and (ii) an efficiency score for a vehicle operated by a service provider of the service provider device, the efficiency score being based at least in part on the vehicle route and vehicle data from the vehicle;
selecting a service provider of the multiple service providers based at least in part on the efficiency score;
and
transmitting, over the one or more networks, data associated with the transport service request to the service provider device of the selected service provider.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the computer system to perform operations that include:

communicating, over one or more networks, with multiple computing devices to determine a current position of each computing device, each of the multiple computing devices being associated with a transport vehicle;
receiving, over the one or more networks, a transport service request from a requester device, the transport service request specifying a pickup location and a destination location;
for each computing device of the multiple computing devices, determining (i) a vehicle route from the current position of the computing device to the pickup location, and (ii) an efficiency score for the vehicle associated with the computing device, the efficiency score being based at least in part on the vehicle route and vehicle data from the vehicle;
selecting the transport vehicle associated with one of the multiple computing devices based at least in part on the efficiency score;
and
transmitting, over the one or more networks, data associated with the transport service request to the computing device of the selected transport vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Managing the operational state of a vehicle

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