US 12,314,880 B2
Service area maps for autonomous vehicles
David Margines, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Tacettin Guney, San Jose, CA (US); Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Palo Alto, CA (US); Jeffrey Min, Mountain View, CA (US); Laurens Feenstra, San Francisco, CA (US); Peter Pawlowski, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Dirk Haehnel, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to WAYMO LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/536,372.
Application 18/536,372 is a continuation of application No. 18/112,047, filed on Feb. 21, 2023, granted, now 11,893,524.
Application 18/112,047 is a continuation of application No. 16/697,618, filed on Nov. 27, 2019, granted, now 11,615,355, issued on Mar. 28, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/866,670, filed on Jun. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0169290 A1, May 23, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/06 (2023.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)
CPC G06Q 10/06312 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G08G 1/202 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
accessing, by one or more server computing devices, one or more vehicle-specific polygons corresponding to a service area, the service area being defined, in part, by one or more capabilities of a fleet of vehicles;
determining, by the one or more server computing devices, a geographic area based on the one or more vehicle-specific polygons;
providing, by the one or more server computing devices, map information corresponding to the geographic area to a client computing device for display to a user; and
communicating, by one or more server computer devices with a vehicle of the fleet of vehicles, to cause the vehicle to drive in an autonomous mode to the user based on the one or more vehicle-specific polygons.