METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RIDESHARE

• US 20130054281A1
• Filed: 08/27/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amit Vasani, Sohil Thakkar, Wai Cheng
• Original Assignee: Greenmiles Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Thakkar, Sohil, Vasani, Amit, Cheng, Wai Fan
• Application Number:
  US13/595,579
• Publication Number:
  US 20130054281A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for rideshare. In some embodiments, this includes receiving at least one participant data, at least one vehicle data, and at least one trip interest, wherein each of the one participant data comprises a personal communication device identifier associated with a personal communication device, forming a contract for a rideshare trip among participants, wherein the contract includes trip cost payment terms and alternative transportation cost payment terms in case of a plurality of contract transactions, monitoring from a rideshare platform a performance of the rideshare trip, based on the performance, calculating costs associated with the rideshare trip and determining contract transactions according to the contract, performing the contract transactions, and allocating carbon credits in the rideshare trip.

Claims

1. A method of a rideshare comprising:

receiving at least one participant data, at least one vehicle data, and at least one trip interest, wherein each of the one participant data comprises a personal communication device identifier associated with a personal communication device;

forming a contract for a rideshare trip among participants;

monitoring from a rideshare platform a performance of the rideshare trip;

based on the performance, calculating costs associated with the rideshare trip and determining contract transactions according to the contract; and

performing the contract transactions.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

deriving revenues from the contract transactions, wherein the revenues includes at least one carbon credit, an advertisement revenue, monthly fees, and fees derived from the contract transactions in forms of, but not limited to, at least one national currency, and at least one virtual currency; and

allocating the at least one carbon credit among the participants.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein forming a contract for a rideshare trip among participants comprises:

wherein each of the at least one participant data comprises a bio-graphic information, and the personal communication device identifier, and a travel mode preference;

generating at least one rideshare trip proposal based on matches among the at least one trip interest;

based on the at least one vehicle data, calculating vehicle green scores;

ranking the at least one rideshare trip proposal based on social interest scores derived from the bio-graphic information, personality likability scores derived from at least one past rideshare experience, trip experience scores derived from at least one performance of at least one past rideshare trip, and travel model role recommendations, wherein the travel mode role recommendations are made based on the vehicle green scores and the travel mode preference;

providing the at least one rideshare trip proposal to the participants according to the ranking; and

based on responses from the participants, scheduling the rideshare trip and forming the contract for the rideshare trip among the participants.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein scheduling the rideshare trip among the participants comprises:

wherein the rideshare trip is associated with the participants, a route plan, a pickup location, a drop off location, a driver role, a rideshare trip vehicle, and a rideshare trip start window;

prior to the performance of the rideshare trip, sending one or more modification requests of the rideshare trip submitted by one or more participants within the participants;

obtaining responses from the participants regarding the one or more modification requests;

based on the responses, determining the contract transactions according to the contract; and

performing the contract transactions.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the at least one vehicle data comprises a vehicle information associated with a vehicle and a vehicle interface device identifier, wherein the vehicle interface device identifier is associated with a vehicle interface device coupled with the vehicle.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, further comprising:

during the rideshare trip, querying the vehicle to obtain a carbon emission through the personal communication device and the vehicle interface device;

calculating a carbon emission reduction based on the carbon emission, the at least one participant data, and the at least one vehicle data;

applying the carbon emission reduction to individual emission accounts associated with the participants; and

generating carbon credits.

11. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein monitoring from the rideshare platform a performance of the rideshare trip comprises:

prior to the rideshare trip, authenticating the participants through the personal communication device; and

based on a positive authentication, during the rideshare trip, through the personal communication device, obtaining trip data, communicating the trip data to the rideshare platform, and determining a number of occupants.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein based on the performance, calculating costs associated with the rideshare trip and determining contract transactions according to the contract comprises:

determining the costs based on the trip data, wherein the costs includes a distance travelled, a fuel usage, a trip cost, and a trip carbon emission;

calculating at least one passenger trip cost and at least one driver trip compensation based on the cost and the number of occupants;

determining a vehicle co-occupancy information based on the trip data;

based on the determination that a driver and a passenger are co-occupants, registering a successful trip contract transaction;

based on the determination that a driver and a passenger are not co-occupants, determining if both the driver and the passenger were present at a beginning of the rideshare trip;

if both the driver and the passenger were present at the beginning of the rideshare trip, registering a both parties failure contract transaction;

if both the driver and the passenger were not present at the beginning of the rideshare trip, registering a both parties failure contract transaction;

if the driver was not present at the beginning of the rideshare trip, registering a driver failure contract transaction; and

otherwise, registering a passenger failure contract transaction.

13. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein performing the contract transactions comprises:

wherein the contract includes trip cost payment terms and alternative transportation cost payment terms in case of a plurality of contract transactions;

for each of the contract transactions, according to the contract, determining for a contract transaction the trip cost payment terms and the alternative transportation cost payment terms to apply;

if the contract transaction is a successful trip contract transaction, having a passenger pay a passenger trip cost and giving a driver a driver trip compensation;

if the contract transaction is a both parties failure transaction, applying a contract termination penalty to both the driver and the passenger;

if the contract transaction is a driver failure transaction, having the driver pay a driver penalty and giving the passenger an alternative transportation cost payment; and

otherwise the contract transaction is a passenger failure transaction, having the passenger pay the passenger trip cost and an additional penalty and giving the driver the driver trip compensation.

14. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the advertisement revenue includes a revenue obtained by sending at least one advertisement to the participants at an opportune time.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein the sending includes sending to the personal communication device.

5. A method of allocating carbon credits in a rideshare comprising:

during a rideshare trip, obtaining trip data through at least one personal communication device;

calculating a carbon emission reduction based on a trip carbon emission obtained from the trip data, at least one participant data, and at least one vehicle data associated with participants;

applying the carbon emission reduction to individual emission accounts associated with the participants; and

generating the carbon credits.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein obtaining trip data through at least one personal communication device includes querying a vehicle to obtain the trip data through the at least one personal communication device.

7. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein calculating a carbon emission reduction based on a trip carbon emission obtained from the trip data, at least one participant data, and at least one vehicle data associated with participants comprises:

obtaining at least one emission co-efficient from the at least one vehicle data; and

calculating the carbon emission reduction for each of the participants based on the at least one emission co-efficient, the trip carbon emission, and the number of the occupants in the rideshare trip.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the at least one emission co-efficient includes a plurality of emission co-efficients, wherein the carbon emission includes a pluralities of carbon emissions corresponding to the series of emission co-efficients.

16. A system for a rideshare comprising:

at least one personal communication device capable of communications and location determination provided to at least one participant during the rideshare; and

a rideshare platform containing

a participant ride matching and contract module for receiving at least one participant data, at least one vehicle data, and at least one trip interest,

revenue methods for deriving revenues and allocating carbon credits among the participants, and

a communication network interface coupled to the rideshare platform for sending and receiving communications over a communication network with the at least one personal communication device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein allocating carbon credits comprises:

during a rideshare trip, obtaining trip data through the at least one personal communication device;

calculating a carbon emission reduction based on a trip carbon emission obtained from the trip data, the at least one participant data, and the at least one vehicle data associated with participants;

applying the carbon emission reduction to individual emission accounts associated with the participants; and

generating the carbon credits.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

at least one vehicle interface device coupled with a rideshare vehicle capable of communicating with the last least one personal communication device, wherein each of the at least one vehicle interface device is identified by a vehicle interface identifier, wherein obtaining trip data through the at least one personal communication device includes querying the rideshare vehicle to obtain the trip data through the at least one personal communication device.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the rideshare platform comprises:

the participant ride matching and contract module for receiving the at least one participant data, the at least one vehicle data, and the at least one trip interest and forming a contract for a rideshare trip among the participants, wherein each of the at least one participant data comprises a personal communication device identifier associated with a personal communication device of the at least one personal communication device, wherein each of the at least one vehicle data comprises a vehicle information associated with a vehicle,

the trip and contract monitoring module for monitoring from the rideshare platform a performance of the rideshare trip, based on the performance, calculating costs associated with the rideshare trip, determining contract transactions according to the contract, and performing the contract transactions,

the revenue methods for deriving revenues from the contract transactions and allocating carbon credits among the participants, and

the communication network interface coupled to the rideshare platform for sending and receiving communications over a communication network with the at least one personal communication device.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the revenues includes at least one carbon credit, an advertisement revenue, monthly fees, and fees derived from the contract transactions in forms of, but not limited to, at least one national currency, and at least one virtual currency,

wherein the advertisement revenue includes revenues obtained by sending at least one advertisement to the participants at an opportune time, wherein the at least one advertisement is received by the at least one personal communication device over the communication network.