Systems and methods for on-demand transportation

• US 9,904,900 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2015
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IP3 2017, Series 200 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Bao Tran
• Inventors: Cao, Raymond
• Primary Examiner(s): Hayles, Ashford S
• Application Number:
  US14/737,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20160364678A1
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 705 263
• 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 demand aggregation network that invites prospective buyers to join the network, the network operating a purchasing module with a benefit of buying a plurality of items from a plurality of providers, the prospective buyers committing to buying the items when a winning provider is determined by the group;

a computer receiving a trip request from one or more potential riders and a delivery request from the network to deliver the items to the buyers, including a module for;

matching, by the computer, the trip request and delivery request to one or more routes having a common route and satisfying a cost effective navigation route; and

dispatching by a computer, a vehicle to pick up the items and the rider along the cost effective route.

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

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle 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, 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.

10. 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.

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

12. The system of claim 1, comprising code for identifying, by the 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, and 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.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer determines that one or more riders is an elder person and adds a predetermined time buffer to deliver items to the rider.

15. The method of claim 13, comprising 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;

and identifying, by the computer, and 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.

14. A method for delivery, comprising:

aggregating with a demand aggregation network that invites prospective buyers to join the network, the network operating a purchasing module with a benefit of buying a plurality of items from a plurality of providers, the prospective buyers committing to buying the items when a winning provider is determined by the group;

receiving by a computer a trip request from one or more potential riders and a delivery request from the network to deliver the items to the buyers;

matching, by the computer, the trip request and delivery request to one or more routes having a common route and satisfying a cost effective navigation route; and

dispatching by a computer, a vehicle to pick up the items and the rider along the cost effective route.