Jennifer Diane Kilpatrick

US Patent:

20170147951, May 25, 2017

Filed:

Nov 23, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/949197

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Jennifer King Kilpatrick - Stanford CA, US
Xudong Yang - Pyrmont, AU
Nicholas Caston - Pyrmont, AU
Harold H.W. Kim - Chippendale, AU

International Classification:

G06Q 10/02
G06Q 50/14

Abstract:

A system is described that infers that a user will need to complete a trip and selects a transportation service that the user can use to complete the trip. The system predicts a time to request a vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip such that the request has sufficiently high degree of likelihood, of causing the vehicle to arrive at a future location by a final departure time; the final departure time being a latest time at which the user is predicted to need to begin traveling. Responsive to determining that a current time is within a threshold amount of time of the predicted time, the system sends, to a reservation system associated with the transportation service, a reservation request for the vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip.