COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GAMIFYING RIDE SHARING

• US 20140194198A1
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Published: 07/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Trapeze Software ULC (Constellation Software Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Ecology and Environment Incorporated (WSP Global, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gale, Anthony Bruce, Mehalick, David Andrew, Lent, Jeffrey Scott, Ohnmeiss, Thomas Edwin
• Application Number:
  US14/024,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20140194198A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/29
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/48 Starting a game, e.g. activating a game device or waiting for other players to join a multiplayer session
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A computer-based method for gamifying ride sharing, including: storing computer readable instructions in at least one memory element of at least one computer; and executing, using at least one processor for the at least one computer, the computer readable instructions to: accept a first input including a sign-up by a user for a game; accept a second input including information regarding single occupant vehicle trips reduced by the user; assign, according to the information, a position of the user on a virtual board for the game, a ranking of the user in the game and at least one reward to the user; and transmit, for display, a graphical representation of the virtual board including the position of the user.

Claims

1. A computer-based method for gamifying ride sharing, comprising:

storing computer readable instructions in at least one memory element of at least one computer; and

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executing, using at least one processor for the at least one computer, the computer readable instructions to;

accept a first input including a sign-up by a user for a game;

accept a second input including information regarding single occupant vehicle trips reduced by the user;

assign, according to the information;

a position of the user on a virtual board for the game;

a ranking of the user in the game; and

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at least one reward to the user; and

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transmit, for display, a graphical representation of the virtual board including the position of the user.