Method of providing call taxi service and call taxi service server

• US 10,387,984 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2016
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Naver Corporation
• Original Assignee: Naver Corporation
• Inventors: Baek, Jong Eun
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Alan S
• Application Number:
  US15/069,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20160267618A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,254 Days
• Field of Search: 705 711- 742
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063118 Staff planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/60 Business processes related to postal services shipping G06Q10/083; franking apparatus G07B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Abstract

Provided are a method of providing a call taxi service and a call taxi service server providing the method, in which a call taxi service is provided by using human and physical network resources of a plurality of call taxi companies. Accordingly, human and physical networks for the call taxi service become abundant, and thus a dispatch success rate regarding a call taxi request is increased and a dispatch time is reduced.

Claims

1. A method of providing a call taxi service to a mobile communication terminal of a user, the method comprising:

establishing communication between the mobile communication terminal of the user and a taxi call service server through a communication network, responsive to a call taxi request from the mobile communication terminal of the user;

generating, by the taxi call service server, call request information based on the call taxi request from the mobile communication terminal of the user;

transmitting, through the communication network, the call request information from the taxi call service server to at least one call taxi control server in communication with a plurality of predetermined call taxis, requesting to dispatch a call taxi;

generating, by the taxi call service server, dispatch information upon receiving a dispatch response from the call taxi control server;

providing, by the taxi call service server, the dispatch information to the mobile communication terminal through the communication network;

receiving, by the taxi call service server from the mobile communication terminal of the user, a boarding confirmation regarding a dispatched call taxi; and

generating and transmitting, by the taxi call service server, boarding information including the dispatch information to a contact number pre-set correspondingly to the user or to a contact number input by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, by the taxi call service server to the mobile communication terminal, responsive to the receiving of the call taxi request, a call taxi service screen having an input box for at least one of destination information and departure point information;

wherein the call request information includes at least one of the destination information, the departure point information, and member information of the user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the call taxi service screen is provided according to a call taxi search of the user through an integrated search screen provided to the mobile communication terminal or according to selection of a call taxi request icon included in a map search screen provided to the mobile communication terminal.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

calculating and providing, by the taxi call server to the mobile communication terminal, at least one expected route based on the departure point information and the destination information; and

generating driving route information based on an expected route selected by the user, and

after the requesting to dispatch a call taxi, providing the driving route information to a terminal of the dispatched call taxi.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the providing of the driving route information comprises transmitting the driving route information to the terminal of the dispatched call taxi through the call taxi control server.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the dispatch response comprises connection information about the terminal of the dispatched call taxi, and

the providing of the driving route information comprises transmitting the driving route information to the terminal of the dispatched call taxi through the connection information.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the generating of the driving route information comprises:

providing a route setting screen to the mobile communication terminal; and

generating the driving route information by modifying the expected route according to a route setting of the user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting to dispatch a call taxi comprises:

providing at least one piece of call taxi company information to the mobile communication terminal of the user;

requesting a call taxi control server corresponding to call taxi company information selected by the user to dispatch a call taxi, and receiving a dispatch response from the call taxi control server corresponding to call taxi company information selected by the user; and

generating the dispatch information based on the dispatch response.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting to dispatch a call taxi comprises:

requesting a plurality of call taxi control servers corresponding to a plurality of call taxi companies according to a set order of the plurality of call taxi companies to dispatch a call taxi, wherein, when a pre-set response time exceeds or a dispatch inability response is received from any of the plurality of call taxi control servers, a call taxi control server corresponding to a next call taxi company is requested to dispatch a call taxi based on the set order;

receiving a dispatch response from one of the plurality of call taxi control servers; and

generating the dispatch information based on the dispatch response from one of the plurality of call taxi control servers.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting to dispatch a call taxi comprises:

simultaneously requesting a plurality of call taxi control servers corresponding a plurality of call taxi companies to dispatch a call taxi;

receiving a dispatch response from at least one of the plurality of call taxi control servers; and

generating the dispatch information based on the dispatch response received from the call taxi control server that transmitted the dispatch response first.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting to dispatch a call taxi comprises:

receiving dispatchability information from the at least one call taxi control server by inquiring of the at least one call taxi control server about dispatchability based on the call taxi request, and generating at least one piece of call taxi information based on the dispatchability information;

providing the at least one piece of call taxi information to the mobile communication terminal of the user;

requesting a call taxi control server corresponding to call taxi information selected by the user to dispatch a call taxi, and receiving a dispatch response from the call taxi control server corresponding to call taxi information selected by the user; and

generating the dispatch information based on the dispatch response.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the call taxi information comprises at least one of taxi company information, taxi type information, license plate number information, driver information, and taxi location information.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the providing of the at least one piece of call taxi information comprises providing call taxi information about at least one dispatchable call taxi to a map screen based on the taxi location information.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the dispatch response comprises location information of the dispatched call taxi, and

the providing of the dispatch information comprises providing the dispatch information to a map screen on the mobile communication terminal based on the location information of the dispatched call taxi.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating and transmitting of the boarding information comprises generating and transmitting uniform resource locator (URL) information about a storage location in which the boarding information is stored.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, by the taxi call service server, location information from the mobile communication terminal of the user periodically or in real-time and generating moving route information based on the location information; and

storing the moving route information in the storage location corresponding to the URL information.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the taxi call service server, an alighting confirmation from the mobile communication terminal of the user; and

accumulating call taxi service using history of the user and calculating credibility of the user based on the call taxi service using history, and storing information about the credibility correspondingly to member information of the user.

18. A call taxi service server for providing a call taxi service to a mobile communication terminal of a user through a communication network, said call taxi service server comprising:

a request processor configured to receive a call taxi request from the mobile communication terminal of the user and generate call request information based on the call taxi request; and

a control server interworking unit configured to request at least one call taxi control server, in communication with the call taxi service server through the communication network, to dispatch a call taxi based the call request information, and generate and provide, to the mobile communication terminal, dispatch information according to a dispatch response from the at least one call taxi control server,

wherein the at least one call taxi control server is in communication with a plurality of predetermined call taxis for dispatching at least one of the predetermined call taxis, and

wherein said control server interworking unit receives a boarding confirmation regarding a dispatched call taxi from the mobile communication terminal of the user and, generates and transmits boarding information including the dispatch information to a contact number pre-set correspondingly to the user or to a contact number input by the user.

19. The call taxi service server of claim 18, wherein the request processor is configured to interwork with a search service server providing an integral search service to the mobile communication terminal or with a map service server providing a map search service to the mobile communication terminal, to provide the call taxi service linked to the integral search service or the map search service.