Computing timing intervals for vehicles through directional route corridor

US11854404B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Uber Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kenneth Kuhn · San Francisco, US
• Eoin O'Mahony · San Francisco, US
• Miraj Ramhematpura · San Francisco, US
• Mustafa Sahin · San Francisco, US
• Lior Seeman · San Francisco, US
• Philippe Sekine · San Francisco, US
• Vishnu Sundaresan · San Francisco, US
• Meisam Vosoughpour · San Francisco, US
• Danhua Guo · San Francisco, US
• Robert Paine · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 7, 2022
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2023
• Expiry date: Jul 7, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/127
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system computes a timing interval between high-capacity vehicles (HCVs) for each of a plurality of HCV corridors within a geographic region, each respective HCV corridor of the plurality of HCV corridors including a start area. For each respective HCV corridor, the system transmits, via a network communication interface, (i) first data to a first computing device associated with a first HCV, the first data indicating the start area of the respective HCV corridor, and a first start time for the first HCV, and (ii) second data to a second computing device associated with a second HCV, the second data indicating the start area of the respective HCV corridor and a second start time for the second HCV, wherein the first start time for the first HCV and the second start time for the second HCV are based on the computed timing interval for the respective HCV corridor.