Patent ID: 11887030
Assignee: TELEPORT MOBILITY, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. A method within a network for improving efficiency in securing conveyance services by a vehicle controlled by a representative in communication with the network, the method comprising:
(a) receiving at a central server in communication with the network in substantially real time, in any order:
(i) conveyance service requests and vehicle-related data from at least one external server associated with a business entity that provides goods or services, the conveyance service requests submitted on behalf of one or more client and comprising conveyance data corresponding to at least one feature of the conveyance service requests, wherein, the at least one external server comprises one or more of a substantially real time source of the conveyance service requests and a substantially real time source of conveyance data, at least a portion of the conveyance data comprising vehicle-related data relating to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle-related data includes vehicle capacity;
(ii) geographical location data; and
(iii) one or more representative preference entered by the representative;

(b) filtering, in any order, the conveyance service requests and the vehicle-related data to:
(i) identify a filtered subset of conveyance service requests using one or a combination of the one or more representative preference and the geographical location data; and
(ii) identity a filtered subset of vehicle-related data using one or a combination of the one or more representative preference and the geographical location data;

(c) identifying one or more matches between the filtered subset of conveyance service requests and the filtered subset of vehicle-related data based on one or a combination of the one or more representative preference and the geographical location data;
(d) securing the one or more matches by communicating conveyance service instructions to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to provide one or more conveyance services on behalf of the client; and
(e) automatically and repeatedly analyzing one or more of the conveyance service requests, updated vehicle-related data, and updated geographical location data and repeating steps (a) through (d) to pool additional conveyance services to be provided by the vehicle until one or more of the vehicle capacity has been substantially filled and an ending service location has been reached; and
(f) generating on a display device of at least one terminal in communication with the network a visual representation corresponding to a route followed by the vehicle in providing the one or more conveyance services, wherein the visual representation is dynamically updated to display progression of the one or more conveyance services.