Systems and methods for facilitating aerial vehicle services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12175396-B2
Application number	US-202318393994-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2023
Priority date	Sep 1, 2020
Publication date	Dec 24, 2024
Grant date	Dec 24, 2024

Abstract

Systems and methods for facilitating aerial vehicle services are provided. A service entity system can obtain multi-modal transportation services data indicative of a plurality of anticipated aerial transportation service. The service entity system can obtain vehicle attributes associated vehicle(s) of an aerial vehicle provider and determine an expected performance of the vehicle(s) based on the vehicle attributes and the anticipated aerial transportation services. The service entity system can generate an aerial vehicle service request that requests access to the vehicle(s) for providing aerial transportation services for the service entity based on the expected performance of the vehicle(s). A vehicle provider system can obtain a number of different aerial vehicle service requests from a number of different service entities. The vehicle provider system can select portions of the different aerial vehicle service requests to accept and provide access to vehicle(s) of the vehicle provider based on the selected portions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
accessing, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, aerial transportation service data indicative of one or more aerial transportation services;
accessing, by the computing system, aerial vehicle attribute data associated with one or more aerial vehicles;
computing, by the computing system, predicted aerial vehicle performance data for the one or more aerial transportation services based at least in part on the aerial transportation service data and the aerial vehicle attribute data;
computing, by the computing system, an aerial vehicle service request based at least in part on the predicted aerial vehicle performance data, wherein the aerial vehicle service request comprises a request for at least one of the one or more aerial vehicles to provide an aerial transportation service; and
outputting, by the computing system, data indicative of the aerial vehicle service request.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the aerial transportation service data comprises request data indicative of a plurality of requests for the one or more aerial transportation services, wherein the plurality of requests comprise one or more anticipated requests, one or more incoming requests, or one or more scheduled requests.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the aerial transportation service data comprises itinerary data indicative of a plurality of aerial transportation itineraries for facilitating the one or more aerial vehicle transportation services for the plurality of requests.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the itinerary data comprises one or more itinerary attributes associated with the plurality of aerial transportation itineraries, wherein the one or more itinerary attributes comprise one or more time constraints and one or more location constraints.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein the predicted aerial vehicle performance data is based, at least in part, on a comparison of the one or more itinerary attributes and the one or more aerial vehicle attributes associated with the one or more aerial vehicles.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the predicted aerial vehicle performance data is indicative of one or more transportation parameters associated with the one or more aerial transportation services.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the one or more transportation parameters associated with the one or more aerial transportation services comprise one or more usage parameters indicative of a flight time, or one or more routing parameters indicative of one or more predicted routes, or both.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the aerial vehicle service request comprises data indicative of at least a first performance portion of the predicted aerial vehicle performance data, wherein the first performance portion of the predicted aerial vehicle performance data is indicative of a first subset of one or more transportation parameter types associated with the one or more transportation parameters of the one or more aerial transportation services.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein computing the aerial vehicle service request comprises computing, by the computing system, the aerial vehicle service request based, at least in part, on the first performance portion of the predicted aerial vehicle performance data.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein an aerial vehicle provider for the aerial vehicle service request is one of a plurality of aerial vehicle providers associated with a service entity, and wherein the method further comprises:
generating, by the computing system, a second aerial vehicle service request for a second aerial vehicle provider of the plurality of aerial vehicle providers based, at least in part, on second predicted aerial vehicle performance data associated with the second aerial vehicle provider and the aerial transportation service data.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the second aerial vehicle service request comprises data indicative of at least a second performance portion, the second performance portion indicative of a second subset of one or more different transportation parameter types than the first performance portion.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the first performance portion of the aerial vehicle service request and the second performance portion of the second aerial vehicle service request are determined based, at least in part, on historical data associated with the aerial vehicle provider and the second aerial vehicle provider.

13. One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
accessing aerial transportation service data indicative of one or more aerial transportation services;
accessing aerial vehicle attribute data associated with one or more aerial vehicles;
computing predicted aerial vehicle performance data for the one or more aerial transportation services based at least in part on the aerial transportation service data and the aerial vehicle attribute data;
computing an aerial vehicle service request based at least in part on the predicted aerial vehicle performance data, wherein the aerial vehicle service request comprises a request for at least one of the one or more aerial vehicles to provide an aerial transportation service; and
outputting data indicative of the aerial vehicle service request.

14. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein the data indicative of the aerial vehicle service request comprises one or more instructions for performing an aerial transportation leg of a multi-modal transportation service.

15. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein the aerial vehicle service request comprises one or more service entity features and one or more vehicle provider features, the one or more vehicle provider features indicative of a period of operational time or a number of aerial transportation services.

16. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein outputting the data indicative of the aerial vehicle service request comprises:
outputting the data indicative of the aerial vehicle service request to at least one of a pilot device associated with the at least one of the one or more aerial vehicles, a vehicle device associated with that at least one of the one or more aerial vehicles, or a vehicle provider device associated with an aerial vehicle provider.

17. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein the aerial vehicle service request comprises a request for at least one of the one or more aerial vehicles to provide the one or more aerial transportation services.

18. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 17 , wherein the aerial vehicle service request comprises at least a first portion of the predicted aerial vehicle performance data, and wherein the operations further comprise:
obtaining tracking data for the one or more aerial transportation services, the tracking data indicative of a progress of the one or more aerial transportation services;
updating the first portion of the predicted aerial vehicle perfo

Assignees

• Joby Aero Inc

Inventors

• Warmoth Adam
• Courtney Christopher Hill
• Villa Ian Andreas

Classifications

• G06Q50/40

  Business processes related to the transportation industry (shipping G06Q10/083) · CPC title

• G06Q10/0631 Primary

  Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations · CPC title

• G06Q10/06311 Primary

  Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group · CPC title