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US 8,131,307 B2Granted
Method for requesting transportation services
OwnerOlaf M. Lubeck, John H. Hallinventors
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Abstract
A method for safely and efficiently requesting transportation services through the use of mobile communications devices capable of geographic location is described. Individual and package transportation may be provided. New customers may be efficiently serviced, and the requester and transportation provider locations may be viewed in real time on the mobile devices.
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A method for requesting transportation services, comprising:
- providing a wireless communications network for routing messages;
- providing a computer for processing information in cooperation with the wireless communications network;
- sending a request for transportation services to the computer through the communications network using a first communications device having geographic location;
- sending the geographic location of the first communications device to the computer through the wireless communications network;
- storing the request and the determined location on the computer;
- transmitting the stored location of the first communications device to at least one transportation provider having a wireless mobile communications device through the wireless communications network;
- generating a first confirmation signal on the wireless communications network from the at least one transportation provider;
- selecting one transportation provider from the at least one transportation provider using the computer on the basis of at least one chosen criterion;
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- generating a second confirmation signal from the computer to the transportation requester using the wireless communications network notifying the transportation requester that transportation service has been arranged.
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A method for obtaining time-of-arrival information for at least one transportation vehicle following a predetermined route at a chosen location on the route, comprising:
- providing a wireless communications network for routing messages;
- providing a computer for processing information in cooperation with the wireless communications network;
- sending the geographic location of the chosen location on the route using a first communications device;
- sending the geographic location for each vehicle of the at least one transportation vehicle at selected time intervals using a wireless mobile communications device located thereon to the computer through the wireless communications network;
- analyzing the geographic location information at the selected time intervals using the computer;
- comparing the analyzed location information with the scheduled location of the at least one vehicle along the predetermined route;
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- calculating the time-of-arrival of the at least one vehicle at the chosen location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.