Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic transportation pooling
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Application No.: US15194958Application Date: 2016-06-28
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Publication No.: US10885472B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Pankaj Dayama , Vijay Ekambaram , Lohit K. Namboodiri , Vinayaka D. Pandit , Santosh Penubothula
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q10/02
- IPC: G06Q10/02 ; G06Q10/10 ; G06Q10/06 ; G06Q20/14

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamic transportation pooling are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining vehicle-sharing user preferences attributed to each of multiple users; identifying vehicle-sharing opportunities involving two or more of the users riding in two or more vehicles, wherein each of the identified vehicle-sharing opportunities comprises (i) a location wherein at least one of the users exits a first of the vehicles and enters a second of the vehicles, wherein the location comprises a vehicle demand that exceeds a pre-determined threshold, and (ii) a temporal range until the vehicles will reach the location, and wherein said identifying is based on the vehicle-sharing user preferences attributed to each of the users, the current location of each of the vehicles, the destination of each of the vehicles, and traffic information; and outputting each of the vehicle-sharing opportunities to a mobile device of each of the users.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170372235A1 Dynamic Transportation Pooling Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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