IP Library Granted Patent US 10,720,060
Granted Patent B2
US 10,720,060 · App. 16/435,824 · Granted Jul 21, 2020

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

Inventors: Yeonseo Kim (Miyoshi, JP); Shin Sakurada (Toyota, JP); Daisuke Tanabe (Nagoya, JP); Ayana Takeshita (Toyota, JP); Hiroyuki Tokita (Toyota, JP); Koichi Asamoto (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G08G1/202G06Q10/02H04M1/72563
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Patent No.
US 10,720,060
App. No.
16/435,824
Granted
Jul 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform, in a case where a possibility of communication interruption due to an insufficient remaining amount of battery is detected for a first wireless communication terminal used by a first user for whom a ride reservation for a vehicle is established with a driver of the vehicle, a process regarding a meet-up schedule of the driver and the first user of the ride reservation. The process regarding a meet-up schedule may be cancellation of the ride reservation, change of a scheduled meet-up location, or the like.

Claims (26)

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processor programmed to

perform detection of a possibility of communication interruption due to an insufficient remaining amount of battery of a first wireless communication terminal, by detecting an interruption of communication with the first wireless communication terminal that continues for a first time length or longer, the first wireless communication terminal being used by a first user for whom a ride reservation for a vehicle is established with a driver of the vehicle; and

when the possibility of communication interruption due to the insufficient remaining amount of battery is detected for the first wireless communication terminal, perform a process regarding a meet-up schedule of the driver and the first user of the ride reservation.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is programmed to

perform, as the process regarding the meet-up schedule, cancellation of the ride reservation.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is programmed to

perform, as the process regarding the meet-up schedule, change of a scheduled meet-up location according to the meet-up schedule to a predetermined location that is possibly an existing location of the first user.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the processor is programmed to perform, when the interruption of communication with the first wireless communication terminal is detected continuously for a second time length or longer, change of a schedule meet-up location according to the meet-up schedule to a predetermined location that is possibly an existing location of the first user, where the second time length is shorter than the first time length.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is programmed to

perform detection of the possibility of communication interruption due to the insufficient remaining amount of battery, by detecting that a remaining amount of battery in the first wireless communication terminal is below a first threshold, and

perform, as the process regarding the meet-up schedule, change of a scheduled meet-up location according to the meet-up schedule to a predetermined location where the first user and the driver can meet up before the first wireless communication terminal stops operation because of the insufficient remaining amount of battery, and notification of the scheduled meet-up location after change to at least a wireless communication terminal that is used by the driver.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to

perform transmission, to the first wireless communication terminal, of options for the process regarding the meet-up schedule, when a remaining amount of battery in the first wireless communication terminal is detected to be below a second threshold, and

perform a process selected by the first user from the options, when the possibility of communication interruption due to the insufficient remaining amount of battery is detected for the first wireless communication terminal.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is programmed to

perform detection of the possibility of communication interruption due to the insufficient amount of battery, by detecting that a remaining amount of battery in the first wireless communication terminal is below a first threshold, and

change turns in an order of meet-up in such a way that the first user comes first, when the remaining amount of battery in the first wireless communication terminal is below the first threshold, and there is a second user whose riding period on the vehicle overlaps the riding period of the first user and whose turn in the order of meet-up with the driver comes before the turn of the first user.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein, when a change in the scheduled meet-up location causes an increase in a traveling distance and/or a traveling time of the vehicle relative to before the change, the processor is programmed to provide a predetermined incentive to the driver according to an amount of the increase.

9. An information processing system comprising

a processor programmed to

perform detection of a possibility of communication interruption due to an insufficient remaining amount of battery of a first wireless communication terminal, by detecting an interruption of communication with the first wireless communication terminal that continues for a first time length or longer, the first wireless communication terminal being used by a first user for whom a ride reservation for a vehicle is established with a driver of the vehicle; and

perform, when the possibility of communication interruption due to the insufficient remaining amount of battery is detected for the first wireless communication terminal, a process regarding a meet-up schedule of the driver and the first user of the ride reservation.

10. An information processing method comprising:

detecting a possibility of communication interruption due to an insufficient remaining amount of battery of a first wireless communication terminal, by detecting an interruption of communication with the first wireless communication terminal that continues for a first time length or longer, the first wireless communication terminal used by a first user for whom a ride reservation for a vehicle is established with a driver of the vehicle; and

performing, when where the possibility of communication interruption due to the insufficient remaining amount of battery is detected for the first wireless communication terminal, a process regarding a meet-up schedule of the driver and the first user of the ride reservation.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE EXECUTION DATE OF FIRST ASSIGNOR PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 049418 FRAME 0050. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jul 1, 2019
From: KIM, YEONSEO; SAKURADA, SHIN; TANABE, DAISUKE; TAKESHITA, AYANA; TOKITA, HIROYUKI; ASAMOTO, KOICHI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 049644/0595 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2019
From: KIM, YEONSEO; SAKURADA, SHIN; TANABE, DAISUKE; TAKESHITA, AYANA; TOKITA, HIROYUKI; ASAMOTO, KOICHI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 049418/0050 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-117928 · Jun 21, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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