IP Library Granted Patent US 12,242,262
Granted Patent B2
US 12,242,262 · App. 16/802,995 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Intelligent transportation systems

Inventor: Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, MA)
Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLC
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Patent No.
US 12,242,262
App. No.
16/802,995
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Transportation systems have artificial intelligence including neural networks for recognition and classification of objects and behavior including natural language processing and computer vision systems. The transportation systems involve sets of complex chemical processes, mechanical systems, and interactions with behaviors of operators. System-level interactions and behaviors are classified, predicted and optimized using neural networks and other artificial intelligence systems through selective deployment, as well as hybrids and combinations of the artificial intelligence systems, neural networks, expert systems, cognitive systems, genetic algorithms and deep learning.

Claims (30)

1. A transportation system for negotiation-based vehicle routing comprising:

a route adjustment negotiation system through which users in a set of users negotiate a route-adjustment value for at least one of a plurality of parameters used by a vehicle routing system to route at least one vehicle in a set of vehicles, wherein the users are riders of the at least one vehicle in the set of vehicles, wherein negotiating the route-adjustment value includes offering an item of value to at least one user in the set of users, and wherein the route-adjustment value is based at least in part on user-indicated values and at least one negotiation response thereto by the at least one user in the set of users, the user-indicated values being derived from a behavior of the user;

a vehicle-based route negotiation interface through which the user-indicated values for the plurality of the parameters used by the vehicle routing system are captured, wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface includes a touch screen or an audio interface, the touch screen or audio interface being configured to capture user behavior and being integral to the at least one vehicle, and wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface is configured to facilitate converting user behavior to the user-indicated values;

a user route optimizing circuit to optimize a portion of a route of the at least one vehicle based on the route-adjustment value for the at least one of the plurality of parameters; and

an artificial intelligence system in communication with the vehicle-based route negotiation interface, the artificial intelligence system operative on at least one processor having access to a non-transitory storage medium that stores computer executable instructions to be executed by the at least one processor, the artificial intelligence system to operate the transportation system to provide negotiation-based vehicle routing based on the user-indicated values for the plurality of the parameters used by the vehicle routing system that are captured by the vehicle-based route negotiation interface.

2. The transportation system of claim 1 wherein the at least one of the plurality of parameters facilitates adjusting a route of the at least one vehicle.

3. The transportation system of claim 2 wherein adjusting the route includes prioritizing a determined parameter for use by the vehicle routing system.

4. The transportation system of claim 1 wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface facilitates expression of rating one or more route parameters.

5. The transportation system of claim 1 wherein the behavior of the user includes touching the touch screen or making an utterance to convey the user-indicated values.

6. The transportation system of claim 1 wherein the user-indicated values indicated by the at least one user correlate to an item of value provided by the at least one user.

7. The transportation system of claim 6 wherein the item of value is provided by the at least one user through an offering of the item of value in exchange for a result of routing based on the at least one of the plurality of the parameters used by the vehicle routing system.

8. The transportation system of claim 7 wherein the negotiation is between a first rider and a second rider, wherein the second rider is ahead of the first rider on a shared route, and wherein the negotiation includes an explicit offer from the first rider to reward the second rider for temporarily leaving the shared route as the first rider passes.

9. The transportation system of claim 1 wherein the route-adjustment value is in units of at least one of currency, tokens, points, cryptocurrency or rewards.

10. A method for negotiation-based vehicle routing comprising:

negotiating, a route-adjustment value for at least one of a plurality of parameters used by a vehicle routing system to route at least one vehicle in a set of vehicles, wherein the negotiating is by users in a set of users, wherein the users are riders of the at least one vehicle in the set of vehicles, wherein the negotiating the route-adjustment value includes offering an item of value to at least one user in the set of users, and wherein the route-adjustment value is based at least in part on user-indicated values and at least one negotiation response thereto by the at least one user in the set of users, the user-indicated values being derived from a behavior of the user;

capturing, through a vehicle-based route negotiation interface, the user-indicated values for the plurality of the parameters used by the vehicle routing system, wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface includes a touch screen or an audio interface, wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface is integral to the at least one vehicle, wherein the capturing the user-indicated values includes:

capturing user behavior by the touch screen or audio interface; and

converting the user behavior to the user-indicated values;

optimizing, via a user route optimizing circuit, a portion of a route of the at least one vehicle based on the route-adjustment value for the at least one of the plurality of the parameters; and

operating an artificial intelligence system in communication with the vehicle-based route negotiation interface, the artificial intelligence system operative on at least one processor having access to a non-transitory storage medium that stores computer executable instructions to be executed by the at least one processor, the artificial intelligence system to operate a transportation system to provide negotiation-based vehicle routing based on the user-indicated values for the plurality of the parameters used by the vehicle routing system that are captured by the vehicle-based route negotiation interface.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising adjusting a route of the at least one vehicle based on the at least one of the plurality of parameters.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the adjusting the route includes prioritizing a determined parameter for use by the vehicle routing system.

13. The method of claim 10 further comprising expressing a rating of one or more route parameters by the at least one user in the set of users via the vehicle-based route negotiation interface.

14. An artificial intelligence system for negotiation-based vehicle routing comprising:

at least one processor having access to a non-transitory storage medium that stores computer executable instructions to be executed by the at least one processor, the artificial intelligence system in communication with a vehicle-based route negotiation interface, the artificial intelligence system to operate a transportation system to provide negotiation-based vehicle routing based on user-indicated values for a plurality of parameters used by a vehicle routing system that are captured by the vehicle-based route negotiation interface;

wherein users in a set of users negotiate a route-adjustment value for at least one of the plurality of parameters used by the vehicle routing system to route at least one vehicle in a set of vehicles, wherein the users are riders of the at least one vehicle in the set of vehicles, wherein negotiating the route-adjustment value includes offering an item of value to at least one user in the set of users, and wherein the route-adjustment value is based at least in part on the user-indicated values and at least one negotiation response thereto by the at least one user in the set of users, the user-indicated values being derived from a behavior of the user;

wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface is to capture the user-indicated values for the plurality of the parameters used by the vehicle routing system, wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface includes a touch screen or an audio interface, the touch screen or audio interface being configured to capture user behavior and being integral to the at least one vehicle, and wherein the vehicle-based route negotiation interface is configured to facilitate converting user behavior to the user-indicated values;

wherein a user route optimizing circuit is configured to optimize a portion of a route of the at least one vehicle based on the route-adjustment value for the at least one of the plurality of parameters.

15. The artificial intelligence system of claim 14 wherein the user-indicated values indicated by the at least one user correlate to an item of value provided by the at least one user.

16. The artificial intelligence system of claim 15 wherein the item of value is provided by the at least one user through an offering of the item of value in exchange for a result of routing based on the at least one of the plurality of the parameters used by the vehicle routing system.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 2, 2022
From: STRONG FORCE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, LLC
To: STRONG FORCE TP PORTFOLIO 2022, LLC
Reel/Frame 061960/0235 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2020
From: CELLA, CHARLES HOWARD
To: STRONG FORCE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, LLC
Reel/Frame 052753/0215 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTUS2019053857 · Sep 30, 2019
Provisional Application 62739335 · Sep 30, 2018
Related Publication 20200202374A1 · Jun 25, 2020
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