Apparatus for providing car sharing service and method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11651464-B2
Application number	US-201816109398-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2018
Priority date	Dec 13, 2017
Publication date	May 16, 2023
Grant date	May 16, 2023

Abstract

An apparatus for providing a car sharing service includes a processor configured to: extract at least one car-sharing station candidate between a departure point and a destination point; generate at least one route that combines and provides a car-hailing service and a car-sharing service from the departure point to the destination point; determine a priority of the at least one route using at least one of a number of cars providing the car-hailing service, a car-hailing success probability, a state whether traffic is congested around the car-sharing station candidate, a state whether it is possible to return the car, a distance from the car-sharing station candidate to the destination point, a distance from the departure point to the car-sharing station candidate, a fare by the route, a driving distance, an estimate driving time, or an estimate waiting time; and provide the determined priority to a user terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for providing a car sharing service, comprising:
a processor configured to:
extract at least one car-sharing station candidate between a departure point and a destination point,
generate at least one route that combines and provides a car-hailing service and a car-sharing service from the departure point to the destination point via the at least one car-sharing station candidate, the at least one route including a plurality of sections, among which at least one section provides the car-hailing service and another at least one section, different from the at least one section providing the car-hailing service, provides the car-sharing service,
determine a priority of each of the at least one route using a car-hailing success probability, wherein the car-hailing success probability refers to a success rate of a user for receiving a car-hailing service at the at least one car-sharing station candidate, and
provide the determined priority to a user terminal, and allow the user terminal to display the determined priority and to select one from among the at least one route based on the displayed priority; and
a storage configured to store the generated at least one route, information about a car-sharing station, information about a fare on each route, and information about a location of the user terminal,
wherein the at least one car-sharing station candidate is extracted among predetermined car-sharing stations by a service provider.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
extract car-sharing station candidates for providing the car-sharing service to a portion of the at least one route between the departure point and the destination point,
compare the car-sharing station candidates with each other using at least one of a number of cars providing the car-hailing service within a distance from the respective car-sharing station candidates, the car-hailing success probability, a state whether a traffic is congested around the respective car-sharing station candidates, the state whether it is possible to return the car in the respective car-sharing station candidates, the distance from the respective car-sharing station candidates to the destination point, or the distance from the car-sharing station, which exists within the certain distance from the departure point, to the respective car-sharing station candidates, so as to select at least one car-sharing station candidate among the car-sharing station candidates,
generate at least one route among a car-sharing service sole route, a car-hailing service sole route, and a combination route of the car-sharing service and the car-hailing service from the departure point to the destination point via the selected at least one car-sharing station candidate, and
determine the priority using at least one of the fare on each route, a driving distance, an estimated driving time, the estimated waiting time, or information about comparison between the car-sharing station candidates.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to combine and provide the car-hailing service and the car-sharing service when the car-hailing service is solely used from the departure point to the destination point and the fare is equal to or greater than a reference value.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether a car-sharing station exists within a first walkable distance from the departure point and whether a car-sharing station exists within a second walkable distance from the destination point.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein, in a case that the car-sharing station exists within the first walkable distance from the departure point and the car-sharing station does not exist within the second walkable distance from the destination point, the processor provides the car-sharing service from the car-sharing station existing within the first walkable distance from the departure point to a car-sharing station which exists near the destination point but not within the second walkable distance from the destination point, and provides the car-hailing service from the car-sharing station which is not within the second walkable distance from the destination point to the destination point.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein, in a case that the car-sharing station does not exist within the first walkable distance from the departure point and the car-sharing station exists within the second walkable distance from the destination point, the processor determines whether a car-sharing station for alighting exists in the route between the departure point and the destination point, and
wherein, in a case that the car-sharing station for alighting exists, the processor provides the car-hailing service from the departure point to the car-sharing station for alighting and provides the car-sharing service from the car-sharing station for alighting to the car-sharing station existing within the second walkable distance from the destination point.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the car-sharing station for alighting in the route between the departure point and the destination point includes:
a car-sharing station which is not within the first walkable distance from the departure point but within a reference travel distance by car; and
a car-sharing station which is not within the second walkable distance from the destination point but within the reference travel distance by car.

8. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein, in a case that the car-sharing station does not exist within the first walkable distance from the departure point and the car-sharing station does not exist within the second walkable distance from the destination point, the processor:
extracts at least one car-sharing station near the departure point in the route between the departure point and the destination point and at least one car-sharing station near the destination point in the route between the departure point and the destination point;
provides the car-hailing service from the departure point to at least one car-sharing station near the departure point;
provides the car-sharing service from at least one car-sharing station near the departure point to at least one car-sharing station near the destination point; and
provides the car-hailing service from at least one car-sharing station near the destination point to the destination point.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , the processor is further configured to:
extract the departure point corresponding to a location of the user terminal;
extract a location of the car providing the car-hailing service around the departure point;
set the fare on each route; and
perform an authentication operation when the user terminal logs in for requesting the car sharing service.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a communication device, when at least one or more route, which is generated using a number of at least one car-sharing station candidate, traveling from the departure point to the destination point via at least one car-sharing station candidate is selected by the user terminal, configured to perform a communication between a driver terminal providing the car-sharing service of the selected route, a driver terminal providing the car-hailing service, and the user terminal requesting the car sharing service.

11. An apparatus for providing a car sharing service, comprising a processor configured to:
extract one or more car-sharing station candidates in a route between a departure point and a destination point when a user uses a car-sharing service in the departure point,
compare the one or more car-sharing s

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Park Jung Mi
• Anastasia Yarygina
• Han Jimin
• Lee Jia

Classifications

• G01C21/20

  Instruments for performing navigational calculations (G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01C21/3438

  Rendezvous; Ride sharing · CPC title

• G01C21/343

  Calculating itineraries (travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047) · CPC title

• G06Q20/14

  specially adapted for billing systems · CPC title

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title