Autonomous presentation of a self-driving vehicle

• US 10,580,305 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2017
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Greenberger, Jeremy Adam, Kozloski, James Robert, Pickover, Clifford A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Whittington, Jess
• Application Number:
  US15/837,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20180217597A1
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching

Abstract

Techniques for facilitating the autonomous presentation of a self-driving vehicle are provided. In one example, a method can include a system operatively coupled to a processor, where the system: determines a feature of a self-driving vehicle based on information regarding an entity in a pending transaction; determines a task to be performed by the self-driving vehicle based on the feature; and generates an instruction for the self-driving vehicle to perform the task.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining, by a self-driving vehicle operatively coupled to a processor, a feature of a self-driving vehicle based on information regarding an entity having an interest in completing an event associated with the self-driving vehicle;

determining and performing, by the self-driving vehicle, a task based on the feature, wherein the task demonstrates the feature to the entity;

determining, by the self-driving vehicle, that the feature is a high available occupancy based on an observation by the self-driving vehicle of a video of the entity with a greater than a defined number of accompanying entities;

generating, by the self-driving vehicle, an instruction for the self-driving vehicle to perform the task; and

controlling, by the self-driving vehicle, the self-driving vehicle to perform a motor operation of the self-driving vehicle.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the processor is electrically coupled to the self-driving vehicle.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising determining, by the self-driving vehicle, a requirement based on the information, wherein the requirement represents a need or want of the entity.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising identifying, by the self-driving vehicle, the feature of the self-driving vehicle based on the requirement.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein software is provided as a service in a cloud environment to facilitate the determining the task.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information is a custom preference set by the entity.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the event is a sales transaction to purchase the self-driving vehicle.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising:

causing, by the self-driving vehicle, the self-driving vehicle to initiate the event based on receipt by of geographic information indicating the entity is located at a car dealership.