US 12,456,090 B2
Management server and service method for pet care
Hee Jeong You, Seoul (KR); Bouk Goo Song, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Wonseok Choi, Seoul (KR); and Junsoo Park, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/512,226.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0023121 (KR), filed on Feb. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0270037 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0832 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0834 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0835 (2023.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0832 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/08345 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pet care management server for providing pet care services, comprising:
a communication unit including a transmitter and receiver and configured to communicate with an outside of the pet care management server through a communication network; and
a controller including a processor configured to:
obtain and generate information necessary for a pet care service based on an information received through the communication unit;
transmit the information to the outside through the communication unit,
when one of a pet transport service and a total service that combines the pet transport service and a goods delivery service is reserved by a user terminal, determine a vehicle for providing the reserved service and a pickup time at a departure point for a pet transportation based on a reserved service time, and the departure point and a destination of the pet transportation; and
receive information on a pet from a driver terminal in the case of a pet transport service or a total service being selected and a pet traveling alone;
identify a pet to board to the vehicle based on the received information on the pet; and
derive environmental information necessary to provide a vehicle environment suitable for the identified pet based on the received information on the pet;
wherein the environmental information includes information about at least one of temperature, humidity, or music;
transmitting, by the pet care management server, the derived environmental information to a vehicle terminal of the vehicle;
receiving, by the vehicle terminal, the derived environmental information;
adjustings, by the vehicle terminal, the vehicle according to the derived environmental information; and
wherein the pet care management server charges a travel cost when payment for the travel cost is approved by the user terminal after the pet arrives at the pet transport destination by interworking with a payment server.