Appeal No. 2006-0165
Application 10/292,721
THE INVENTION
The appellant claims a method and system for providing
combined dispatching, mapping and metering data to a mobile unit
such as a taxicab. Claims 1 and 10 are illustrative:
1. A method to provide combined dispatching, mapping and
metering for a mobile unit comprising:
(a) receiving a request from a customer for a mobile unit
with a driver to take the customer from an origination
point to a destination point;
(b) storing the request in the form of request data in a
web server that is remote from the mobile unit, the
request data includes pick up and destination points;
(c) providing a computer processing unit located in the
mobile unit, the computer processing unit;
(i) receives the request data;
(ii) processes the request data into request
processed information that includes address
information turned into a mapping solution;
(iii) receives metering data; and
(iv) processes the metering data into metering
information;
(d) transmitting the request data from the web server to
the computer processing unit; and
(e) transmitting the request processed information that
includes address information turned into a mapping
solution and the metering information from the computer
processing unit to a driver interface module located in
the mobile unit.
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