Patent SG-11201804943V-A (SG)
Title: Autonomous vehicle services
Inventor: URMSON CHRISTOPHER
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 2016-12-27
Abstract: Anavailable vehicle is on its way to your location! Would you like to take a trip? Accept Decline S 0 710 W O 20 17 / 117 095 Al FIGURE 7A 420 (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/117095 Al 6 July 2017 (06.07.2017) WIPO I PCT 111111111111110111010101111101011111011101110101110110111111111111111111110111111 (51) International Patent Classification: GO6Q 50/30 (2012.01) H04W 12/06 (2009.01) H04W 4/02 (2009.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2016/068650 (22) International Filing Date: 27 December 2016 (27.12.2016) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 62/273,067 30 December 2015 (30.12.2015) US 15/358,729 22 November 2016 (22.11.2016) US (71) Applicant: WAYMO LLC [US/US]; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). (72) Inventors: URMSON, Christopher, Paul; 218 Central Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). COLIJN, Peter; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). DOLGOV, Dmitri, A.; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). FAIRFIELD, Nathaniel; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). PANDIT, Salil; 1600 Amphitheatre Park- way, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). PATEL, Nirmal; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). POWELL, Ryan; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). CHAN, Min Li; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (US). (74) Agents: CACCIABEVE, Noelle, L. et al.; Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP, 600 South Avenue West, Westfield, NJ 07090 (US). (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, 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, [Continued on next page] (54) Title: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SERVICES (57) : The technology relates to facilitating transportation services between a user 422, 432 and a vehicle 100, 100A having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, one or more server computing devices 410 having one or more processors may information identifying the current location of the vehicle. The one or more server computing devices may determine that the user is likely to want to take a trip to a particular destination based on prior location history for the user. The one or more server computing devices may dispatch the vehicle to cause the vehicle to travel in the autonomous driving mode towards a location 660, 662 of the user. In addition, after dispatching, the one or more server computing devices sending a notification 710, 720 to a client computing device 420, 430 as- sociated with the user indicating that the vehicle is currently available to take the passenger to the particular destination. WO 2017/117095 Al MIDEDIMOMMION01013101011101MODEVOIMIE 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). Declarations under Rule 4.17: as to applicant's entitlement to apply for and be granted a patent (Rule 4.17(ii)) as to the applicant's entitlement to claim the priority of the earlier application (Rule 4.17(iii)) Published: with international search report (Art. 21(3))