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Driverless vehicle commerce network and community

  • US 9,459,622 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2013
  • Issued: 10/04/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of an automobile sharing server comprising:

  • associating a unique identifier associated with a driverless vehicle with the automobile sharing server;

    periodically analyzing a location of the driverless vehicle based on a geospatial data associated with the location of the driverless vehicle;

    declaring a non-transitory location of the driverless vehicle based on a predictable behavior algorithm;

    permitting an owner of the driverless vehicle to list the driverless vehicle on an automobile sharing network;

    processing a payment of a renter of the driverless vehicle in a threshold radial distance from the driverless vehicle when the driverless vehicle is predictable at the non-transitory location for a predictably available period of time;

    crediting a financial account of the owner of the driverless vehicle with the payment of the renter of the driverless vehicle in the threshold radial distance from the driverless vehicle when the driverless vehicle is predictable at the non-transitory location for the predictably available period of time;

    automatically instructing the driverless vehicle to navigate to a location of the renter;

    periodically updating the owner and the renter based on at least one of a time in transit, a time to arrival, a time to destination, and a payment earned status;

    processing a criteria associated with an automotive listing data including at least one of a description, a photograph, a video, a rental fee, a category, a vehicle make, a vehicle model, and a functional status;

    populating an availability chart when the driverless vehicle associated with a listing criteria is posted, wherein the availability chart includes at least one of an operation area radius, a start timing, an end timing, an hours per day, an hours per user;

    determining that the automotive listing data is generated by a verified user of a neighborhood broadcast system when validating that the automotive listing data is associated with a mobile device;

    determining that an application on the mobile device is communicating the automotive listing data to the automobile sharing network when the automotive listing data is processed;

    associating the verified user with a verified user profile in the automobile sharing network through the application on the mobile device; and

    presenting the automotive listing data generated through the mobile device as an automobile sharing alert pushpin of the automotive listing data in a geospatial map surrounding pre-populated residential and business listings in a surrounding vicinity, such that the automobile sharing alert pushpin of the automotive listing data is automatically presented on a geospatial map in addition to being presented on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the automotive listing data generated through the mobile device of the verified user of the automobile sharing server;

    wherein the automotive listing data generated through the mobile device is radially distributed through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to desktop and mobile devices associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geo spatial coordinates associated with the automotive listing data generated through the mobile device to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area defined by a threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the automotive listing data generated through the mobile device through a radial algorithm of the automobile sharing network that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from a current geospatial location at the epicenter.

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