Google' Patents * USA - Organizing the World’s Transit Information
Using Your Phone
Newark,Del, USA -Seo by the Sea, by Bill Slawski -9 June 2007: -- When you ride public transportation, you usually have to rely upon published route maps and vehicle schedules to find which vehicle to take, where the stops are located, and when the plain, train, or bus departs from those locations... It’s possible for route maps and vehicle schedules to be erroneous, out-of-date, or adjusted for weather, broken tracks, road construction, and other problems...
"Vehicle Information Systems and Methods"
Publication Number: WO/2007/061734 - International Application No.: PCT/US2006/044455 - Publication Date: 31.05.2007 - International Filing Date: 16.11.2006 - Invented by Lalitesh Katragadda, and Sanjay Jain
"Abstract:
In some of the embodiments described herein, a vehicle information system may be used to generate route map information, schedule information, estimated time of arrival information, or the like based upon location information received from passenger-carried or cargo-carried wireless devices, such as passengers’ cellular phones..."
The heart of this system is that riders often carry wireless devices and cellular phones. Gathering and filtering information from those systems, as to the locations of their passengers may allow a transportation information system to track and display information about route map information and schedule information...
* USA - Providing information about transit and driving directions
Newark,Del, USA -Seo by the Sea (originally: Oct/2006), by Bill Slawski -9 June 2007: -- Looking at a new patent application from Google gives us a peek at ways they may help folks connect with taxi cabs, shuttles, and limousines, as well as finding local and long haul company transportation for goods and business service vehicles that are part of a fleet:
"User location driven identification of service vehicles"
Invented by Mark Crady, Michael J. Chu and Russell Y. Shoji - US Patent Application 20060217885 - Published September 28, 2006 - Filed: March 24, 2005
"Abstract
A vehicle position aggregation system receives position information for service vehicles from various fleet management systems, and maintains the current location of the vehicles in a database, including information identifying each vehicle’s associated fleet and related contact information. End users can query the vehicle position aggregation system to obtain information about service vehicles in the vicinity of the user’s input location."
* Canada - Transit Trip Planner in Toronto? - Possible expansion of Google’s Transit Trip Planner service to Toronto
Toronto,Ont,CAN -SEO by the SEA, by Angie McKaig - 9 June 2007: -- Presently the service is only available in the Portland, Oregon, area according to the Google Transit FAQ, but that page tells us that they “plan to expand to cities throughout the United States and around the world”... Ms. McKaig noted an article in this morning’s Metro News on the creation of such a service. The article reports that the City was considering creating its own online service with transit information which would have cost more than $2 million. They also note that there are no estimates of a cost involving partnering with Google, nor has a time frame been established if they move forward together... Gary Price wrote back in December that Google has registered the domain names “GoogleTransitplanner.com., .info.,.org. and .net” when writing about the launch of the Portland Transit service... (See: google.com/transit)
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