Patent ID: 9618353
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G01C,G08G,H04W

Claim:
1. A vehicle request device for requesting a plurality of vehicles by multiple users to a location associated with the device, the device comprising: at least one processor: an input device arranged to cause the at least one processor to generate a vehicle request for each one of multiple users upon receipt of a user input by each one of said multiple users; and a communications device for communicating with a remote device, said communications device being arranged to transmit the generated vehicle requests to the remote device, said vehicle requests comprising data indicative of the location associated with the vehicle request device, and said communications device being further arranged to receive information from the remote device relating to the status of each transmitted vehicle request; wherein said vehicle request device is arranged, for each vehicle request, to generate a message indicative of the status of the vehicle request using the received information and to simultaneously display a plurality of generated messages, each generated message relating to a vehicle request, on a display; and wherein said communications device is further arranged to receive an indication from the remote device that a vehicle that has accepted a vehicle request has departed from the location associated with the vehicle request device, said vehicle request device being arranged to stop updating the status of a pending vehicle request and stop displaying on the display the message associated with said pending vehicle request on receipt of said indication.