Building access and layout mapping for an autonomous vehicle based transportation system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10169934-B2
Application number	US-201715400145-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 6, 2017
Priority date	Jan 26, 2016
Publication date	Jan 1, 2019
Grant date	Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

Enhanced features of a vehicle-based transportation system are presented here. In accordance with one methodology, the transportation system receives a ride request that identifies a passenger, a pickup location, and a destination location. The transportation system determines that the passenger requires user-specific security clearance to access a secured area at or near the destination location, and coordinates with a security system to grant the user-specific security clearance to the passenger. The transportation system can also determine a vehicle drop-off location based on the passenger destination, and coordinate with a navigation system to obtain navigation instructions to guide the passenger from the vehicle drop-off location to the passenger destination.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-based system comprising a memory element and a processor device communicatively coupled to the memory element, the memory element having computer-executable instructions stored thereon and configurable to be executed by the processor to cause the computer-based system to:
receive a ride request for a vehicle based transportation system, the ride request identifying a passenger, a pickup location, and a destination location;
determine that the passenger requires user-specific security clearance to access a secured area that is outside of the vehicle and at or near the destination location; and
coordinate with a security system associated with the secured area to grant the user-specific security clearance to the passenger.

2. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the user-specific security clearance is linked to a security badge registered to the passenger.

3. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the computer-executable instructions cause the computer-based system to activate the user-specific security clearance after an autonomous vehicle of the vehicle based transportation system has reached the identified destination with the passenger.

4. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the computer-executable instructions cause the computer-based system to send a confirmation to the passenger, the confirmation indicating that the passenger has been granted the user-specific security clearance.

5. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein:
the ride request identifies a passenger destination; and
the computer-executable instructions cause the computer-based system to provide navigation instructions to guide the passenger to the identified passenger destination.

6. The computer-based system of claim 1 , the computer based system determines that the passenger requires user-specific security clearance to access a secured area based on passenger calendaring information.

7. A computer-based system comprising a memory element and a processor device communicatively coupled to the memory element, the memory element having computer-executable instructions stored thereon and configurable to be executed by the processor to cause the computer-based system to:
receive a ride request at a vehicle based transportation system, the ride request identifying a passenger, a pickup location, and a passenger destination;
determine, by the vehicle based transportation system, a vehicle drop-off location based on the passenger destination, wherein the vehicle drop-off location and the passenger destination are at different locations;
coordinate, by the vehicle based transportation system, with a navigation system to obtain navigation instructions to guide the passenger from the vehicle drop-off location to the passenger destination; and
generate, by the vehicle based transportation system, a confirmation to a device associated with the passenger, the confirmation indicating the navigation instructions to the passenger.

8. The computer-based system of claim 7 , wherein the coordinating comprises accessing building layout data maintained for the building.

9. The computer-based system of claim 7 , wherein the device is a mobile device associated with the passenger and wherein the computer-executable instructions cause the vehicle based transportation system to provide the navigation instructions to the mobile device associated with the passenger.

10. The computer-based system of claim 7 , wherein the navigation instructions include walking directions from the vehicle drop-off location to the passenger destination.

11. The computer-based system of claim 7 , wherein the coordinating comprises accessing passenger calendaring information to determine a meeting location.

12. The computer-based system of claim 11 , wherein the meeting location is a room within a building, and wherein the navigation instructions include directions from the vehicle drop-off location to the room within the building.

13. The computer-based system of claim 7 , wherein the meeting location is an outside area, and wherein the navigation instructions include directions from the vehicle drop-off location to the outside area.

Assignees

• Gm Global Tech Operations Llc

Inventors

• Diehl Jason E
• Rainbolt Jim K
• Decaluwe Mary E
• Goings Janet S

Classifications

• G08G1/202

  Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching · CPC title

• G08G1/005

  including pedestrian guidance indicator · CPC title

• G01C21/3461

  Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types or segments such as motorways, toll roads or ferries · CPC title

• G07C9/20 Primary

  involving the use of a pass · CPC title

• G07C9/00103

  Physics · mapped topic