Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
705417000 | Distance (e.g., taximeter) | 6 |
20100094780 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus for a taxi meter comprises a processor ( | 04-15-2010 |
20100191675 | WIRELESS POSITIONAL BASED ROUTE TOLLING - A system for determining a distance a vehicle transits within a road system has a mobile device and a main processing unit. The mobile device has a device identification signature and a processing unit to process wireless communication signals received from a network of base stations having positional coordinates, each base station having a base stations identity signature. The processing unit creates data sets containing the base stations identity signatures, and a base station transmits the sequence of data sets. The main processing unit is configured to receive the sequence of data sets and to associate the base stations identification signatures to the positional coordinates of the base stations, to perform trend analysis upon the positional coordinates, to determine a change in trend, to set route positional coordinates at a change in trend, and to determine the distance taking the set route positional coordinates and the road system into account. | 07-29-2010 |
20120290507 | CARPOOL FARE ORGANIZER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CARPOOL FARES - A carpool fare organizer is useful when there is at least one passenger and comprises a distance recording unit, a passenger calculating unit, a fare calculating module and at least one display device. The distance recording unit records a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger. The passenger calculating unit calculates a number of passengers. The fare calculating module calculates an original fare, an accumulated discount and an economical fare. A method for generating carpool fares comprises steps of recording a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger and a number of passengers, and calculating an economical fare with the get-in distance, the get-out distance, the accumulated distance and the number of passengers. | 11-15-2012 |
20130060721 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PAIRING OF FOR-HIRE VEHICLE METERS AND MEDALLIONS - For-hire vehicles, such as taxis, may operate with a for-hire vehicle meter (taximeter) and may be required to have a regulatory agency assigned medallion to accept passenger fares. The meter may determine if it is connected with its assigned medallion and may shut down if it is not connected to the proper medallion. In some embodiments, medallions may place conditions on the operation of the for-hire vehicle including, for example, time and location of passenger pick-up restrictions. Before engaging a passenger fare, the meter may check the conditions associated with the medallion and may not engage if the conditions are not satisfied. A central server may track the meters that have become disconnected from their medallions, or it may track the medallions that are not connected to a meter. | 03-07-2013 |
20140074757 | ESTIMATING TAXI FARE - A method, computer usable program product or system for providing an estimated taxi fare to a passenger including providing a user interface (UI) for identifying a route and the estimated taxi fare for travelling the route in a taxi from a point of origin to a destination meeting a set of criteria, and responsive to the passenger utilizing the UI with the point of origin and identifying the destination, accessing a set of databases with a set of real-time information including traveling related information and pricing information, identifying the route and the estimated taxi fare for the route based upon the point of origin, the destination, the set of criteria, and the set of real-time information, and presenting the estimated taxi fare to the passenger. | 03-13-2014 |
20140149321 | ELECTRONIC REVENUE MANAGMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS - A system and method is provided for revenue management in multi-modal transportation networks. A corridor is constructed for each origin-destination pair of a transportation network based on one or more parameters. Monotonicity constraints and triangle constraints are generated for each origin-destination pair. An objective function is constructed and convexified using point-price elasticity for consistent price optimization. The one or more parameters and coefficients for a mathematical optimization program are then computed and the mathematical optimization problem is solved for a consistent optimal pricing scheme. | 05-29-2014 |