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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2009
Michelle Felt, Randolph, NJ (US);
Nader Gharachorloo, Ossining, NY (US);
Afshin Moshrefi, Newburyport, MA (US);
Michelle Felt, Randolph, NJ (US);
Nader Gharachorloo, Ossining, NY (US);
Afshin Moshrefi, Newburyport, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A mobile taxi dispatch system may receive a request for a taxi vehicle from a user, select one or more taxi vehicles to contact in response to receiving the request and send the request to the selected one or more taxi vehicles. The mobile taxi dispatch system may further receive acceptances of the request from at least one of selected one or more taxi vehicles, select a particular taxi vehicle from the at least one of the selected one or more taxi vehicles that accepted the request. The selecting may be based on one or more criteria. The mobile taxi dispatch system may also send a confirmation to the user and to the particular taxi.