SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ON-DEMAND TRANSPORTATION

• US 20160364678A1
• Filed: 06/11/2015
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IP3 2017, Series 200 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Raymond Cao
• Inventors: Cao, Raymond
• Granted Patent: US 9,904,900 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083

Abstract

Systems and methods relating to one or more ride-sharing vehicles, each having a driver mobile device in the vehicle to receive a ride-sharing request from one or more riders. The system includes a server coupled to the mobile device, wherein the server receives a group purchase of rides, the server determining first and second riders interested in purchasing rides and establishing a customer-defined group identity with the first and second rider being group members receiving a benefit, and wherein the one or more ride-sharing vehicles provides one or more rides by the first and second customer using the group identity.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a ride-sharing computer to receive an on-demand requests to deliver the items, wherein the computer includes a travel matching module to determine a match between the package and at least one rider, and to generate a carpool proposal directed at a vehicle driver to pool the rider and the package;

a local demand aggregation network comprising a computer for inviting a set of neighboring users as a group;

purchasing with at least a benefit a plurality of items desired by the group from providers of the items; and

contacting the ride-sharing computer to deliver items packed in one or more packages; and

a ride-sharing vehicle and with a mobile device coupled to the computer, wherein driver picks up the rider and package based on the carpool proposal.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device receives a pick-up location, a delivery location and a delivery time for the package.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device retrieves a social network profile from the rider and recommends one or more items of interests for the group.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the item is at least one of a food product, a perishable, a consumable, a household item, a commodity, a beverage, a fruit, a bread, a meat, a paper product, a tool, a medicine, a plastic product, and a health related product.

5. The system of claim 1, comprising geo-fencing the items in an area that encompasses a neighborhood community in a threshold geographical radius from a user who creates the group.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the geo-fencing is constrained to a street, a neighborhood, a city, and a county.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the benefit includes a discount or a reward.

8. The system of claim 1, comprising a bidding system coupled to the providers of the items with a time constrained auction system.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein each member commits to procuring items when a winning provider is identified.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising identifying the winning provider through at least one of an open auction system, a closed auction system, a dutch auction system, a reverse auction system, and a first to commit to a service level identified in the item group system.

11. The system of claim 9 further comprising providing a voting interface to members of the item group such that the winning provider is determined based on a voted one or more of the set of providers.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer compares a delivery location to existing delivery locations for a same day delivery route, and provides potential delivery times to the group.

13. The system of claim 1, comprising code for correlating the possible delivery times with predetermined delivery windows, presenting to the customer potential delivery windows for the order, and receiving from the customer a selection of a delivery window.

14. The system of claim 1, comprising code for identifying, by a computer, a first set of points of pick-up or drop-off, each point of pick-up or drop-off in the first set reachable from a planned navigation route with a cost less than a first threshold cost;

identifying, by the computer, a second set of points of pick-up or drop-off, the planned navigation route reachable from each point of pick-up or drop-off in the second set with a cost less than a second threshold cost;

determining, by the computer, a third set of points of pick-up or drop-off, the third set including only the points of pick-up or drop-off in both the first and second set;

determining a fourth set of points of pick-up or drop-off, the fourth set including only the points of pick-up or drop-off in the third set wherein a cost to reach the point of pick-up or drop-off from the route plus a cost to return to the route from the point of pick-up or drop-off is less than a third threshold cost; and

displaying the fourth set of points of pick-up or drop-off in the mobile device.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer determines that the rider comprises an elder person and adds a predetermined time buffer to deliver items to the rider.