Transportation information using communication network and method thereof

• US 20040106399A1
• Filed: 06/13/2003
• Published: 06/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joon- Seong Ki
• Original Assignee: Joon- Seong Ki
• Inventors: Ki, Joon- Seong
• Granted Patent: US 7,499,714 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 13/00 Taximeters measuring distance travelled G01C; measuring time G04
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching

Abstract

The system for processing transportation information using a communication network comprises a customer communication means for performing a direct call connection to a transportation vehicle by the operation of a customer who wants to use a transportation service through the transportation vehicle; a plurality of communication means for transportation vehicles provided with the transportation vehicle for providing a transportation service for performing a direct call connection with the customer communication means; an information database means for storing subscriber information on the plurality of transportation vehicles and communication means of transportation vehicles, connection history information of the communication means of each transportation vehicle and information on a charge as a cost for service of the customer communication means; a host server means in which is operated such that the customer communication means makes a direct call connection to the communication means of the transportation vehicles sequentially according to the predetermined order based on the subscriber information and the connection history information in the information database means; and a data relay means for performing a direct call connection to the customer communication means.

Claims

18. (Amended) The system of claim 13, wherein the host server means identifies whether the transportation service of the customer is used or not by searching whether the position information by the GPS satellite transmitted from the customer communication means and the communication means for transportation vehicles is maintained during a constant time at an adjacent position.