Systems and methods for curating online vehicle reservations to avoid electric vehicle battery depletion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12340323-B2
Application number	US-202318151660-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2023
Priority date	Jan 9, 2023
Publication date	Jun 24, 2025
Grant date	Jun 24, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments may include a system for curating online vehicle reservations. The system may determine, from received vehicle data including first timing data and indicating a selected vehicle, that the selected vehicle is electric. The system may receive accommodation data including second timing data and indicating a selected accommodation. The system may determine, from comparing the first timing data to the second timing data, that the selected vehicle will likely require charging at the selected accommodation. The system may determine whether the accommodation data includes an indication of electric vehicle charging facilities. Responsive to determining that the selected accommodation does not provide the indication of electric vehicle charging facilities, the system may generate a first graphical user interface warning that no charging station is available for the selected vehicle at the selected accommodation and transmit the first graphical user interface to a user device for display.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle reservation curation system comprising:
one or more processors;
memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing instructions that are configured to cause the vehicle reservation curation system to:
monitor, via a web browser extension, whether a user is accessing a reservation website and detect vehicle data as it is entered into the reservation website by the user;

receive, via the web browser extension, the vehicle data as it is entered into the reservation website by the user, the vehicle data comprising first timing data and indicating a selected vehicle, wherein the first timing data indicates a period of time for which the selected vehicle is requested for reservation;
determine, from the vehicle data, that the selected vehicle is electric;

receive accommodation data comprising second timing data and indicating a selected accommodation, wherein the second timing data indicates a period of time for which the selected accommodation is requested for reservation;
determine, from comparing the first timing data to the second timing data, that the selected vehicle will likely require charging at the selected accommodation;
determine whether the accommodation data associated with the selected accommodation comprises an indication of electric vehicle charging facilities;
responsive to determining that the selected accommodation does not provide the indication of electric vehicle charging facilities:
generate a first graphical user interface warning that no charging station is available for the selected vehicle at the selected accommodation, wherein the first graphical user interface provides a suggestion to modify a reservation, the suggestion comprising an alternative accommodation having electric vehicle charging facilities or an alternative vehicle; and
transmit the first graphical user interface to a user device for display in near real-time.

2. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 1 , wherein the memory stores further instructions that are configured to cause the vehicle reservation curation system to prevent a reservation with the selected accommodation and the selected vehicle in response to determining that the selected accommodation does not provide electric vehicle charging facilities.

3. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 1 , wherein the system determines whether the accommodation data associated with the selected accommodation comprises the indication of electric vehicle charging facilities by using natural language processing to parse data of a web page or listing.

4. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 3 , wherein the vehicle reservation curation system is part of a travel reservation portal, a browser extension, or combinations thereof, and wherein the selected accommodation is a non-traditional accommodation.

5. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 1 , wherein the alternative vehicle comprises an hybrid electric vehicle or internal combustion engine vehicle.

6. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 1 , wherein the system determines that the selected vehicle is electric using a first machine learning model.

7. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 1 , wherein the system determines that the selected vehicle will require charging using a second machine learning model.

8. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 7 , wherein the second machine learning model uses inputs of the vehicle data to determine a vehicle type, the accommodation data to determine an accommodation type, the first timing data, and the second timing data.

9. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 1 , wherein the system determines that the selected vehicle will require charging using coded rules.

10. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 1 , wherein the system utilizes metatags to determine whether the accommodation data associated with the selected accommodation comprises the indication of electric vehicle charging facilities.

11. A vehicle reservation curation system comprising:
one or more processors;
memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing instructions that are configured to cause the vehicle reservation curation system to:
monitor, via a web browser extension, whether a user is accessing a reservation website and detect vehicle data as it is entered into the reservation website by the user;

receive, via the web browser extension, the vehicle data as it is entered into the reservation website by the user, the vehicle data comprising first timing data and indicating a selected vehicle, wherein the first timing data indicates a period of time for which the selected vehicle is requested for reservation;
determine, from the vehicle data, that the selected vehicle is electric;

receive accommodation data comprising second timing data and indicating a selected accommodation, wherein the second timing data indicates a period of time for which the selected accommodation is requested for reservation;
determine, from comparing the first timing data to the second timing data, that the selected vehicle correlates with the selected accommodation using a first machine learning model;
determine whether the accommodation data associated with the selected accommodation comprises an indication of electric vehicle charging facilities;
responsive to determining that the selected accommodation does not provide the indication of electric vehicle charging facilities:
generate a first graphical user interface warning that no charging station is available for the selected vehicle at the selected accommodation, wherein the first graphical user interface provides a suggestion to modify a reservation, the suggestion comprising an alternative accommodation having electric vehicle charging facilities or an alternative vehicle; and
transmit the first graphical user interface to a user device for display in near real-time.

12. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 11 , wherein the vehicle data and the accommodation data are received from transaction data from a transaction card.

13. The vehicle reservation curation system of claim 11 , wherein the memory stores further instructions that are configured to cause the vehicle reservation curation system to:
determine, after a predetermined period of time, whether the selected accommodation or the selected vehicle have been changed;
responsive to determining that the selected accommodation or the selected vehicle have not been changed:
generate a second graphical user interface warning reminding the user that no charging station is available for the selected vehicle at the selected accommodation; and
transmit the second graphical user interface to the user device for display.

14. A method comprising:
monitoring, via a web browser extension, whether a user is accessing a reservation website and detecting vehicle data as it is entered into the reservation website by the user;
receiving, via the web browser extension, the vehicle data as it is entered into the reservation website by the user, the vehicle data comprising first timing data and indicating a selected vehicle, wherein the first timing data indicates a period of time for which the selected vehicle is requested for reservation;
determining, from the vehicle data, that the selected vehicle is electric;
receiving accommodation data comprising second timing data and indicating a selected accommodation, wherein the second timing data indicates a period of time for which the selected accommodation is requested for reservation;
determining, from comparing the first

Assignees

• Capital One Services Llc

Inventors

• Edwards Joshua
• Maiman Tyler
• Yip Samuel
• Yee Bryant
• Yaghi Haytham

Classifications

• G06Q50/40 Primary

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

• B60L53/66

  Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles · CPC title

• G06F40/40

  Processing or translation of natural language (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30) · CPC title

• B60L53/68

  Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control · CPC title

• G06F40/205

  Parsing · CPC title