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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2016
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Pietro Buttolo, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
Annette Lynn Huebner, White Lake, MI (US);
Paul Kenneth Dellock, Northville, MI (US);
James Stewart Rankin, Novi, MI (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for queueing transportation providers and passengers are described. A method includes queuing in a first queue, first broadcast messages received from passenger mobile devices and queuing in a second queue, second broadcast messages received from transportation provider mobile devices. The method also includes comparing, via a processor, each of the first broadcast messages in the first queue to the second broadcast messages in the second queue to identify a match between one of the first broadcast messages and one of the second broadcast messages.