Fleet managment user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021181762-A1
Application number	US-201916716427-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 16, 2019
Priority date	Dec 16, 2019
Publication date	Jun 17, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for fleet vehicle management. According to various embodiments, a status is determined for each fleet vehicle of a plurality of fleet vehicles. Based on the status, a service task is determined for at least a subset of the plurality of fleet vehicles. A location is determined for each service task. A service task list is generated based on the service tasks and the locations of the service tasks. A user to perform the service task list is determined based on the service tasks and the service task locations. The service task is communicated to the user and progress of the service task list is monitored.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for managing servicing of a plurality of fleet vehicles comprising:
determining a status for each of the plurality of fleet vehicles; determining, based on the status, a service task for at least a subset of the plurality of fleet vehicles; determining a location for each of the service tasks; generating a service task list based, at least in part, on the service tasks and the locations; determining a user to perform the service task list, at least in part, on the service tasks and the locations; communicating the service task list to a computing device associated with the user; and monitoring a progress of the service task list.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a location of the computing device, wherein the generating the service task list is further based on the location of the computing device.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising
receiving from the computing device a partial acceptance of the service task list, wherein the partial acceptance is an acceptance of less than all of a total number of service tasks in the service task list, and wherein the generating the service task list is further based on the partial acceptance of the service task list.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring the progress of the service task list comprises:
receiving a status update for each fleet vehicle of the subset of the plurality of fleet vehicles; and updating the progress based, at least in part, on the status updates.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the updating the progress comprises changing a status indicator of a service task in the service task list in correlation with the status update.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the location corresponds to a location of a fleet vehicle, and wherein the service task comprises one or more of a type of fleet vehicle, a type of fleet vehicle service, and a fleet vehicle identifier.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the type of fleet vehicle service comprises one or more of a fleet vehicle inspection, a fleet vehicle battery replacement, a fleet vehicle retrieval, a fleet vehicle relocation, or a fleet vehicle delivery.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the service task list comprises a task map indicating the location of each service task in the service task list, and wherein each location is market by a task status icon in the task map.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the task map includes a task route indicator comprising at least one route leg configured to indicate a route between adjacent service tasks of the service task list.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein each task in the service task list has a time budget allotted to complete the task.

11 . A method for servicing of a plurality of fleet vehicles comprising:
receiving a service task list comprising one or more service tasks; and displaying the service task list in a graphical user interface in a display screen of a user device.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
determining a location of the user device; and rearranging an order of service tasks in the service task list based, at least in part, on the location of the user device.

13 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
generating a task map having a task route indicator, wherein the task route indicator comprises at least one route leg configured to indicate a navigational route between adjacent service tasks in the service task list; and displaying the task map in the graphical user interface.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the displaying the service task list in the graphical user interface comprises displaying a graphical progress indicator that indicates a remaining number of incomplete service tasks of the service task list.

15 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the task list comprises one or more service tasks, wherein each service task comprises one or more of a location associated with the task, a type of fleet vehicle associated with the task, a type of service associated with the task, or a fleet vehicle identifier corresponding to a fleet vehicle associated with the task.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the type of service of the task comprises one or more of an inspection of the fleet vehicle, a battery replacement of the fleet vehicle, a retrieval of the fleet vehicle, a drop-off of the fleet vehicle, a replacement of the fleet vehicle, or no service currently needed for the fleet vehicle.

17 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
receiving a status update for each fleet vehicle associated with one or more service tasks in the service task list; and updating the service task list based on the status updates.

18 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the service task list comprises a task status indicator corresponding to each service task in the service task list, and wherein the method further comprises updating the task status indicator as a corresponding service task is completed.

19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein a color of the task status indicator is changed from a first color to a second color in the updating the task status indicator.

20 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the service task list is displayed as an icon in a task map in the graphical user interface, and wherein the icon has a numerical indication of a number of tasks associated with the service task list.

Assignees

• Lyft Inc

Inventors

• Zhao Emily
• Chen Linwe
• Viti Amalia Nicole
• Nelson Carl Richardson
• Hu Samuel
• Bromwich David Keith

Classifications

• G05D1/69

  Coordinated control of the position or course of two or more vehicles · CPC title

• G05D1/227

  Handing over between remote control and on-board control; Handing over between remote control arrangements · CPC title

• G08G1/205

  Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental · CPC title

• G08G1/202 Primary

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

• G05D2201/0213

  Physics · mapped topic