Method for supporting the formation of car pools
First Claim
1. A method for supporting formation of a car pool comprising:
- (a) data-connecting a plurality of user terminals with a server comprising a database, the database containing a plurality of user data sets, each user data set being associated with a respective user terminal, each use terminal being associated with a respective navigation device, each navigation device transmitting current coordinates of the navigation device to the server at regular or irregular intervals, the server deriving travel routes from the current coordinates transmitted and entering the travel routes into the data set associated with the user terminal associated with the navigation device;
(b) calculating a first travel route by a first navigation device associated with a first user terminal of the plurality of user terminals;
(c) entering the first travel route into a first user data set of the plurality of user data sets; and
(d) causing the server to search for correlating user data sets within the database having travel routes comprising sections identical to sections of the first travel route upon receiving a query from the first user terminal and, upon successfully locating a correlating user data set, to transmit a public part of the correlating user data set to the first user terminal.
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Abstract
To allow drivers of different vehicles to make contact with one another, a user terminal is provided in the vehicle, which accesses a server having a connected database. By way of this database, contact with another user who is also entered in the database, might be using the same travel route, and is therefore noticed by the user, can be established by inputting a vehicle license plate as a user ID. When a travel destination is input into a navigation device, the travel route calculated is entered in the database, and the server automatically undertakes a comparison with travel routes of other users who are contained in the database, and establishes contact between the users who have correlating user data sets.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for supporting formation of a car pool comprising:
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(a) data-connecting a plurality of user terminals with a server comprising a database, the database containing a plurality of user data sets, each user data set being associated with a respective user terminal, each use terminal being associated with a respective navigation device, each navigation device transmitting current coordinates of the navigation device to the server at regular or irregular intervals, the server deriving travel routes from the current coordinates transmitted and entering the travel routes into the data set associated with the user terminal associated with the navigation device; (b) calculating a first travel route by a first navigation device associated with a first user terminal of the plurality of user terminals; (c) entering the first travel route into a first user data set of the plurality of user data sets; and (d) causing the server to search for correlating user data sets within the database having travel routes comprising sections identical to sections of the first travel route upon receiving a query from the first user terminal and, upon successfully locating a correlating user data set, to transmit a public part of the correlating user data set to the first user terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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