US 12,105,526 B2
Household service matching system
Kiyoto Sasaki, Susono (JP); Makoto Kawaharada, Susono (JP); Satoshi Nakamura, Susono (JP); Kenichi Okumura, Gotemba (JP); and Naotoshi Kadotani, Shizuoka-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/959,648.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-165232 (JP), filed on Oct. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0110846 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 50/10 (2012.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC G05D 1/0297 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06Q 50/10 (2013.01); G08G 1/202 (2013.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.02); B60W 60/00253 (2020.02)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A household service matching system built on a communication network to perform household service matching between a client who entrusts household service and a consignee who is entrusted with the household service, the household service matching system comprising:
a request receiving unit configured to receive a household service request for requesting the household service, from a terminal apparatus related to the client;
a request disclosing unit configured to disclose on the communication network the received household service request together with at least a part of the client's address, for viewing on each of a plurality of terminal apparatuses;
an acceptance receiving unit configured to receive an acceptance transmitted from a terminal apparatus among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, the terminal apparatus being related to a consignment applicant wishing to be entrusted with the household service related to the household service request disclosed;
a determination unit configured to determine a formal consignee based on the acceptance received;
a vehicle dispatching unit configured to dispatch a vehicle to a designated position designated by the formal consignee determined, or to encourage dispatching of the vehicle to the designated position; and
a vehicle control unit configured to control the vehicle so as for the vehicle having picked up the formal consignee at the designated position to arrive at an address of the client, or so as to encourage the vehicle having picked up the formal consignee at the designated position to arrive at the address.