RIDE TRADING AVAILABILITY USING VEHICLE TELEMATICS

• Main Author: KAR Krishnendu
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.11.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A system and method of communicating vehicle-based service offers between wireless devices includes: receiving, at a central facility, a location from a wireless device used by a potential service consumer; determining, at the central facility, a community from the received location, wherein the community represents a geofenced boundary the location exists within; associating the wireless device with the community in a database at the central facility; receiving at the central facility a service offer and a location or community from a second wireless device used by a vehicle owner; searching the database for the community associated with the second wireless device; determining that the community associated with the second wireless device is also associated with the wireless device in the database; and transmitting the service offer received from the second wireless device to the wireless device.