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Shared transport system and service network

  • US 10,083,608 B2
  • Filed: 09/28/2010
  • Issued: 09/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising the steps ofproviding a transport user device for identifying a transport user;

  • providing a transport provider device for identifying a transport provider;

    providing a central server for network communications between said central server and said transport user device and between said central server and said transport provider device;

    communicating said central server with said transport user device to determine a first geographic position of said transport user device;

    communicating said central server with said transport provider device to determine a second geographic position of said transport provider device;

    determining a geographic proximity of said first geographic position and said second geographic position in said central server;

    triggering a start of a transport journey in said central server in response to said geographic proximity being within a predetermined range of distances indicative of a co-ordinated proximity of said transport user device and said transport provider device to each other;

    thereafter continuously communicating said central server with said transport user device and said transport provider device during said transport journey to verify said transport user device and said transport provider device remaining in said co-ordinated proximity to each other;

    triggering an end of said transport journey in said central server in response to said transport user device and said transport provider device not being in said co-ordinated proximity to each other; and

    thereafter communicating a message from said central server to said transport user device containing details of said transport journey in response to triggering of the end of said transport journey in said central server.

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