Patent SG-11201810513S-A (SG)
Title: Method, apparatus, device, and system for predicting future travel volumes of geographic regions based on historical transportation network data
Inventor: WANG YU
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 2017-07-12
Abstract: INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 001111110111111111111111111111111 Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number 0 (43) International Publication Date ......0\" WO 2018/013631 Al 18 January 2018 (18.01.2018) W I P0 I P C T (51) International Patent Classification: (71) Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED GO1C 21/34 (2006.01) GOOF 17/00 (2006.01) [ /US]; Fourth Floor, One Capital Place, P.O.Box 847, GO1C 21/36 (2006.01) H04W 4/02 (2009.01) Grand Cayman (KY). (21) International Application Number: (72) Inventors: WANG, Yu; c/o Alibaba Group Legal Depart- PCT/US2017/041630 ment, 5/F, Building 3, No. 969 West Wen Yi Road, Yu (22) International Filing Date: Hang District, Hangzhou, 311121 (CN). WANG, Rui; c/o 12 July 2017 (12.07.2017) Alibaba Group Legal Department, 5/F, Building 3, No. 969 West Wen Yi Road, Yu Hang District, Hangzhou, 311121 (25) Filing Language: English (CN). YE, Zhou; c/o Alibaba Group Legal Department, 5/ F, Building 3, No. 969 West Wen Yi Road, Yu Hang Dis- (26) Publication Language: English trict, Hangzhou, 311121 (CN). WANG, Jinming; c/o Al- (30) Priority Data: ibaba Group Legal Department, 5/F, Building 3, No. 969 201610545484.7 12 July 2016 (12.07.2016) CN West Wen Yi Road, Yu Hang District, Hangzhou, 311121 15/646,132 11 July 2017 (11.07.2017) US (CN). (74) Agent: DECARLO, James, J.; Greenberg Traurig, LLP, 200 Park Avenue, 38th fl., New York, NY 10166 (US). _ (54) Title: METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING FUTURE TRAVEL VOLUMES OF GEO- GRAPHIC REGIONS BASED ON HISTORICAL TRANSPORTATION NETWORK DATA = = = = = = = VOc4ER /WW2 - >.• ?0G3 = = = _ = = = WX4EP .. .., WX4DZ WX4G0 WX46 1 - WX4F)3, iix4E9 • = = ,-, FIG. 1 .4 M (57) : The present application provides a method, apparatus, device, and system for predicting future travel volumes of ge- ographic regions based on historical transportation network data. In one embodiment, the disclosure describes a method comprising M receiving first historical travel data associated with a plurality of users, the first historical travel data including a plurality of first his- Il 0 torical travel bookings for a plurality of regions of a map; predicting user travel information in a selected region of the plurality of —. regions in a future time range based on the first historical travel data, the user travel information including, within the future time range GC for the selected region, a future travel booking quantity and a future travel booking response quantity; and transmitting the user travel 1-1 © information to one of a service device or a user device. ei O [Continued on next page] WO 2018/013631 Al MIDEDIMOMOIDEIREEMOOMMOMMIMOMOIIIMEHOIS (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JO, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Published: — with international search report (Art. 21(3))