TW201439935A - System for booking vehicle based on identification of the vehicle and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for booking a vehicle based on identification of the vehicle and a method thereof are provided. By gathering identification corresponding with a vehicle, reading a schedule of the vehicle according to the identification, and determining whether the vehicle can be booked based on the schedule and a booking data sent from a device used by a passenger, the system and the method can book vehicle without noting identification of the vehicle, and can achieve the effect of remembering identification incorrectly.

Description

System for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data and method thereof

A vehicle reservation system and method thereof, in particular, a system for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data and a method thereof.

At present, there are three main ways to take a taxi. One is to park on the roadside, the other is to call the car, and the third is to take a taxi to the taxi.

No matter which way you take a taxi, you will get a taxi that is easy and comfortable. When the passenger wants to be able to take the same taxi again, he can only ask the driver for contact information, such as asking the driver's mobile number or asking the driver for a business card. However, not all drivers have a business card, and not all drivers are willing to hand over their personal mobile phone numbers to strangers, so passengers may no longer be able to get on the same taxi.

If the taxi that the passenger is riding belongs to a specific fleet, the passenger can also call the service center of the taxi team to call the vehicle after recording the identification number of the taxi or the driver number, but if the passenger forgets to remember If you identify the information such as the license plate number or driver number of the taxi, the passenger will not be able to make an appointment for the same car.

In summary, it can be known that in the prior art, there has been a problem in the prior art that the license plate number or the driver number of the taxi that the passenger needs to actively record can be reserved for the same car, and therefore it is necessary to propose an improved technical means to solve the problem. This question.

In view of the prior art that there is a problem that a passenger needs to actively record the identification data of a taxi to make an appointment for the same vehicle, the present invention discloses a system for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data and a method thereof, wherein: The system for reserving a vehicle according to the vehicle identification data disclosed by the present invention comprises at least a mobile device and a server, the mobile device is configured to acquire vehicle identification data, and the server further comprises a transmission module, a data acquisition module, and a reservation processing. Module. The transmission module is configured to receive the reservation data and the vehicle identification data transmitted by the mobile device, wherein the reservation data includes a reservation time, a boarding position, and a boarding position; and the data acquisition module is configured to acquire a row of the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification data. The schedule processing module is configured to determine whether the target vehicle can be reserved based on the reservation data and the schedule data, and to add the reservation data to the schedule information when the target vehicle can be reserved.

The method for reserving a vehicle according to the vehicle identification data disclosed in the present invention is applied to a server, and the server provides a mobile device connection, the steps of the at least comprising: the mobile device acquiring the vehicle identification data; and the mobile device transmitting the reservation data and the vehicle identification data to the server The reservation data includes the appointment time, the boarding position and the boarding position; the server obtains the schedule data of the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification data; and determines whether the target vehicle can be reserved according to the reservation data and the schedule data; when the target vehicle can be reserved When adding the appointment information to the schedule data.

The system and method disclosed in the present invention are different from the prior art in that the present invention acquires the vehicle identification data corresponding to the target vehicle through the mobile device, and reads the schedule data of the target vehicle according to the vehicle identification data, and according to the target The schedule data of the vehicle and the reservation data transmitted by the mobile device determine whether the target vehicle can be reserved, thereby solving the problems existing in the prior art, and achieving the technical effect of avoiding the passenger's wrong identification of the vehicle.

100‧‧‧Server

101‧‧‧ Storage media

110‧‧‧Transmission module

130‧‧‧ Data Acquisition Module

150‧‧‧Reservation processing module

300‧‧‧ mobile devices

400‧‧‧Car equipment

500‧‧‧ storage device

Step 210‧‧‧Mobile devices acquire vehicle identification data

Step 220‧‧‧ The mobile device transmits the vehicle identification data and the location to the server, and the reservation data includes the reservation time, the boarding position and the boarding position.

Step 230‧‧‧ The server obtains the schedule data of the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification data

Step 250‧‧‧ The server judges whether the target vehicle can be reserved based on the reservation data and the schedule data.

Step 251‧‧‧ The server plans the driving route according to the boarding position and the scheduled arrival time of the scheduled information in the schedule information.

Step 253‧‧‧Server calculates the travel time required to drive the driving route

Step 255‧‧‧ The server determines whether the target vehicle can be reserved based on the arrival time, travel time, and appointment time

Step 260‧‧‧Server joins the appointment data to the schedule data

Step 270‧‧‧ The server transmits the reservation success message to the mobile device

Step 280‧‧‧ The server transmits the reservation failure message to the mobile device

FIG. 1A is a system architecture diagram of a vehicle reserved according to the vehicle identification data according to the present invention.

FIG. 1B is a structural diagram of another system for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data according to the present invention.

Figure 2A is the side of the present invention for making a reservation for a vehicle based on vehicle identification data. Law flow chart.

FIG. 2B is a flow chart showing a detailed method for determining whether a target vehicle can be reserved according to the present invention.

The features and embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and embodiments, which are sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to fully understand the technical means to which the present invention solves the technical problems, and The achievable effects of the present invention.

The present invention allows a user to record vehicle identification data using a mobile device and to reserve a vehicle based on the recorded vehicle identification data. After the user enters the appointment information through the mobile device, the present invention will be able to respond to the result of the user's appointment.

The mobile device provided by the present invention is a device including a positioning function and a mobile communication function, including but not limited to a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a tablet computer, a notebook computer, and the like. The reservation information proposed by the present invention includes at least an appointment time, a boarding place, and a boarding place.

The vehicle identification data provided by the present invention is information that can search for a corresponding vehicle, for example, a license plate number, a fleet number, a driver's business license number, etc., or even a QR-code or a two-dimensional barcode, but the present invention Not limited to this.

Hereinafter, the system operation of the present invention will be described with reference to the system architecture diagram of the vehicle for making a reservation based on the vehicle identification data in the "1A". As shown in "FIG. 1A", the system of the present invention includes a server 100 and a mobile device 300. The server 100 further includes a transmission module 110, a data acquisition module 130, and a reservation processing module 150.

The mobile device 300 is responsible for acquiring vehicle identification data. The mobile device 300 can download or retrieve vehicle identification data from the vehicle device 400 disposed in the target vehicle. In addition, the mobile device 300 may read the vehicle identification data from the storage device 500. The storage device 500 is connected to the vehicle device 400 installed in the target vehicle, and is downloaded and stored in the storage device 500. Vehicle identification data in the vehicle device 400.

The mobile device 300 can also provide an input interface for inputting the reservation data, thereby providing the user to input the reservation information on the mobile device 300, and the user can complete the reservation data transmission. After the entry, the entered reservation data is transmitted to the present invention through the mobile communication network, and thus, the transmission module 110 receives the reservation data transmitted by the mobile device 300.

The mobile device 300 can also obtain the current location through any positioning system, for example, through satellite positioning such as a Global Positioning System (GPS) to obtain the current latitude and longitude, the base station or the mobile communication network through the mobile phone network. The location of the access point of the road is positioned with the signal strength, and after the current location is obtained, the obtained location is transmitted to the present invention through the mobile communication network, so that the transmission module 110 receives the mobile device 300. The location of the transfer. The mobile device 300 is not limited to transmitting a location to the transmission module 110, and may also transmit a plurality of consecutively acquired locations to the transmission module 110.

In general, the mobile device 300 transmits the reservation data and the location during the same transmission process, but the invention is not limited thereto.

In addition, in some embodiments, the mobile device 300 can also record the time at which the location is obtained, and when transmitting the location, transmit the recorded time to the present invention, so that the transmission module 110 can receive the mobile device. 300 Get the time of your location.

The transmission module 110 is responsible for transmitting data to the mobile device 300. In addition, the transmission module 110 can also receive the data transmitted by the mobile device 300.

The data acquisition module 130 is responsible for acquiring schedule data of the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification data received by the transmission module 110. In general, the data acquisition module 130 can read the schedule data from the storage medium 101 set by the server 100 that executes the present invention, but the invention is not limited thereto. For example, the data acquisition module 130 can also The schedule data is read through the transmission module 110 to a storage device (not shown) external to the server 100 executing the present invention.

The schedule data acquired by the data acquisition module 130 includes one or more reserved materials, and each of the reserved materials includes at least a registration time for the target vehicle, a login location, a login location, and a reservation. The arrival time and/or travel time may, in some embodiments, even include personal information such as the name, gender, and telephone number of the person making the appointment.

The reservation processing module 150 is responsible for determining whether the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification data received by the transmission module 110 can be reserved according to the reservation data received by the transmission module 110 and the schedule data acquired by the data acquisition module 130.

The reservation processing module 150 may be based on the location of the vehicle in the reservation data and the arrival time in the schedule data (if only the travel time is recorded in the schedule data without recording the arrival time, the reservation processing module 150 needs to add the registration to the vehicle. Time and travel time as the arrival time). The travel route that is closest to the travel time of the reserved data earlier than the reservation time in the reservation data, and the travel time required to travel the planned route, and then according to the travel time The arrival time of the reserved data, the calculated travel time, and the appointment time in the reservation data determine whether the target vehicle can be reserved, for example, after adding the arrival time of the reserved data and the calculated travel time, judging the location Calculate whether the time exceeds the appointment time. If it indicates otherwise, the reservation can be made. If yes, it means that the reservation cannot be made, or whether the difference between the calculated time and the appointment time is greater than the predetermined value. If yes, it means that the reservation can be made. The reservation is made, but the manner in which the reservation processing module 150 determines whether or not the reservation is possible is not limited to the above.

It is worth mentioning that the reservation processing module 150 is not limited to planning a driving route, that is, the reservation processing module 150 can plan a plurality of driving paths, and calculate the driving time of each driving route, and then, the shortest The travel time is combined with the arrival time of the reserved data and the appointment time in the reservation data to determine whether the target vehicle can be reserved.

The reservation processing module 150 is also responsible for adding the reservation data to the schedule information of the target vehicle when it is determined that the target vehicle can be reserved. For example, the reservation processing module 150 may add a reservation data to the schedule data, and write the reservation time, the boarding position, and the boarding position in the reservation data into the login time and login in the reserved data. In the items such as the boarding position, the log-in location, and the like, the arrival time or driving time is written in the reserved data.

The reservation processing module 150 may also transmit the reservation success message to the mobile device 300 through the transmission module 110 when determining that the target vehicle can be reserved, or may transmit the reservation failure message through the transmission module 110 when determining that the target vehicle is not available for reservation. To the mobile device 300.

Next, an operation system and method of the present invention will be described with reference to an embodiment. Referring to FIG. 2A, a flowchart of a method for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data according to the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, the fake design vehicle will transmit the instant position to the server 100 executing the present invention.

After the user stops on the roadside or calls the taxi, if the user is satisfied with the taxi and wishes to continue to ride the taxi afterwards, the user can reserve the taxi through the invention.

First, the user needs to acquire the vehicle identification data corresponding to the taxi in a mobile device 300 such as a smart phone, PDA, or tablet (step 210). In this embodiment, if the vehicle identification data is QR-code, when the corresponding QR-code is attached to the taxi or the vehicle device 400 disposed on the taxi vehicle displays the QR-code, the user can The mobile device 300 captures the QR-code to obtain the vehicle identification data, and if the vehicle identification data is a series of digits such as the license plate number, the user can use the mobile device 300 to connect with the vehicle device 400 installed on the taxi. The vehicle identification data recorded by the vehicle device 400 is downloaded. The user may also use the storage device 500 to store the vehicle identification data recorded by the vehicle device after the storage device 500 is connected to the vehicle device 400, and then read the vehicle identification data stored in the storage device 500 using the mobile device 300. .

After the mobile device 300 acquires the vehicle identification data corresponding to the taxi (step 210), the mobile device 300 can transmit the reservation data and the vehicle identification data to the server 100. In this embodiment, the user can input the reservation data in the user interface displayed by the application that is pre-installed on the mobile device 300 and compatible with the present invention, or the mobile device 300 is connected to perform the present invention. The server 100 downloads an input interface to input the reservation data in the input interface downloaded by the mobile device 300. After the user completes the input of the reservation data, the mobile device 300 can transmit the acquired vehicle identification data and the reservation data input by the user to the server 100.

After the transmission module 110 of the server 100 receives the reservation data and the vehicle identification data transmitted by the mobile device 300 (step 220), the data acquisition module 130 can acquire the vehicle identification data corresponding to the transmission module 110. Schedule data for the target vehicle (step 230). In this embodiment, if the schedule data of all the vehicles is stored in the database, and the schedule data of each vehicle is indexed by the vehicle identification data corresponding to each vehicle, the data acquisition module 130 may be in the data. The library can obtain the schedule data of the target vehicle by querying the vehicle identification data.

After the data acquisition module 130 acquires the schedule data of the target vehicle (step 230), the reservation processing module 150 can determine whether the target vehicle can be reserved by the user according to the reservation data and the schedule data (step 250). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the reservation processing module 150 will arrive in accordance with the boarding position in the reservation data and the schedule data as shown in the "Fig. 2B" process. The travel time of the registered departure position of the reserved data that is earlier than and closest to the scheduled time (step 251), and the travel time required to travel the planned travel route is calculated after the travel route is planned (step 253), and then Determining whether the target vehicle can be reserved according to the arrival time of the reserved data in the schedule data, the calculated travel time, and the appointment time in the reservation data (step 255), if there are three in the schedule data of the target vehicle The appointment information is 5:03, 08:02, 13:04, and when the appointment time for the appointment is 10:00, the reservation processing module 150 will select the appointment with the arrival time of 08:02. The information is judged based on the arrival time of the reserved data at 08:02, the calculated travel time, and the appointment time of the reservation data at 10:00 to determine whether the user can reserve the target vehicle. If the driving time is 30 minutes, the reservation processing module 150 can determine that the user can reserve the target vehicle, and if the driving time exceeds 118 minutes, since the target vehicle cannot reach the boarding position at the scheduled time, the reservation processing module 150 It will be judged that the user cannot reserve the target vehicle.

Continuing back to the "FIG. 2A", after the reservation processing module 150 determines that the target vehicle can be reserved by the user based on the reservation data and the schedule data, the reservation processing module 150 can add the reservation data to the schedule data of the target vehicle ( Step 260). In this embodiment, the reservation processing module 150 uses the reservation time, the boarding place, the drop-off point, and the calculated arrival time in the reservation data as the login time in the newly established reserved materials. , log in to the pick-up location, log in to the pick-up location, and arrival time, and write the newly created reserved materials into the database. In this way, the user does not need to know the identification number of the vehicle to be boarded or the identification number of the driver's number, and can also directly reserve the vehicle to be boarded.

In addition, after the reservation processing module 150 determines that the target vehicle can be reserved by the user according to the reservation data and the schedule data, the reservation processing module 150 can also transmit the reservation success message to the mobile device 300 through the transmission module 110 (step 270). ).

If the reservation processing module 150 determines that the target vehicle cannot be reserved by the user based on the reservation data and the schedule data, the reservation processing module 150 can transmit the reservation failure message to the mobile device 300 through the transmission module 110 (step 280).

In summary, it can be seen that the difference between the present invention and the prior art is that after the mobile device acquires the vehicle identification data corresponding to the target vehicle, the schedule data of the target vehicle is read according to the vehicle identification data, and according to the scheduling of the target vehicle. Information and reservations transmitted by mobile devices The technical means for judging whether the target vehicle can be reserved, and the technical means can solve the problem that the identification information of the taxi that the passengers need to take the initiative to record in the prior art can reserve the same vehicle, thereby achieving the problem of avoiding the passenger's wrong decision. The technical efficacy of the vehicle's identification data.

Furthermore, the method for reserving a vehicle according to the vehicle identification data of the present invention can be implemented in a combination of hardware, software or hardware and software, or can be implemented in a centralized manner in a computer system or spread over several interconnections with different components. The decentralized implementation of the computer system.

While the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the above description is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Any modification of the form and details of the practice of the present invention, which is a matter of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains, is a patent protection of the present invention. range. The scope of the invention is to be determined by the scope of the appended claims.

Step 210‧‧‧Mobile devices acquire vehicle identification data

Step 220‧‧‧ The mobile device transmits the vehicle identification data and the location to the server, and the reservation data includes the reservation time, the boarding position and the boarding position.

Step 230‧‧‧ The server obtains the schedule data of the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification data

Step 250‧‧‧ The server judges whether the target vehicle can be reserved based on the reservation data and the schedule data.

Step 260‧‧‧Server joins the appointment data to the schedule data

Step 270‧‧‧ The server transmits the reservation success message to the mobile device

Step 280‧‧‧ The server transmits the reservation failure message to the mobile device

Claims (10)

A method for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data, the method comprising at least the following steps: a mobile device acquires a vehicle identification data; the mobile device transmits a reservation data and the vehicle identification data to a server, the subscription data includes a reservation time And a boarding position and a vehicle position; the server obtains one of the target vehicles corresponding to the vehicle identification data; the server determines, according to the reservation data and the scheduling data, whether the target vehicle can be reserved; And when the target vehicle can be reserved, the server joins the reservation data to the schedule data. A method for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data as described in claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of transmitting, by the server, a reservation success message to the mobile device when the target vehicle is available for reservation. A method for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data as described in claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of transmitting, by the server, an appointment failure message to the mobile device when the target vehicle is not available for reservation. The method for obtaining a vehicle according to the vehicle identification data according to the first aspect of the patent application, wherein the step of acquiring the vehicle identification data by the mobile device further comprises: downloading, by the storage device, a vehicle device installed in the target vehicle. The vehicle identification data and the mobile device are connected to the storage device, and the step of storing the vehicle identification data is read by the storage device. The method for reserving a vehicle according to the vehicle identification data according to claim 1, wherein the step of acquiring the vehicle identification data by the mobile device further comprises the mobile device download setting. The step of storing the vehicle identification data by one of the vehicle devices in the target vehicle. A system for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data, the system comprising: at least one mobile device for acquiring a vehicle identification data; and a server, further comprising: a transmission module for receiving the mobile device An appointment data and the vehicle identification data, wherein the reservation data includes a reservation time, a boarding position, and a vehicle location; and a data acquisition module for acquiring one of the target vehicles corresponding to the vehicle identification data And an appointment processing module for determining whether the target vehicle can be reserved based on the appointment information and the schedule data, and for adding the reservation to the schedule information when the target vehicle can be reserved data. The system for reserving a vehicle based on the vehicle identification data according to claim 6, wherein the transmission module is further configured to transmit an appointment success message to the action when the reservation processing module determines that the target vehicle can be reserved. Device. The system for reserving a vehicle based on the vehicle identification data according to the sixth aspect of the patent application, wherein the transmission module is further configured to transmit an appointment failure message to the action when the reservation processing module determines that the target vehicle is not available for reservation. Device. A system for reserving a vehicle based on vehicle identification data as described in claim 6 wherein the mobile device downloads the vehicle identification data from a vehicle device disposed in the target vehicle. The system for reserving a vehicle according to the vehicle identification data according to claim 6, wherein the system further comprises a storage device for downloading the vehicle identification data stored in one of the vehicle devices installed in the target vehicle. The mobile device is read by the storage device Vehicle identification data.