Abstract: A mobility scooter sharing system includes signal broadcasting devices, mobility scooter groups, renting controlling devices, device ID marks and a renting platform. As a mobile device reads the device ID of the renting controlling device corresponding to the mobility scooter, the mobile device sends a renting signal to the renting platform, and the renting platform sends an unlock signal to the renting controlling device. The renting controlling device confirms whether the mobility scooter is within any of the station areas based on the broadcast signal from any of the signal broadcasting devices. If the mobility scooter is judged to be located within any of the station areas, the renting controlling device enables the battery of the mobility scooter, and if the mobility scooter is judged to be not located within any of the station areas, the battery of the mobility scooter is not enabled.

Abstract: Implementations generate personalized property recommendations based on experiential data obtained via artificial reality systems and machine learning predictions that correlate user preferences to these properties. A user can be one or more persons interested in purchasing a property, such as a new home. A property buying workflow often includes defining a set of preferences for a desired property and comparing properties for sale with these defined preferences. However, in a conventional buying workflow, defining preferences and doing the comparison is left up to the user and/or the user's real estate agent. Users can often feel overwhelmed by the information, in particular users that do not have previous buying experience. Implementations can integrate machine learning and artificial reality systems into the property buying experience to mitigate the information overload problem and provide meaningful recommendations to the user, such as a ranking of properties that comply with user's preferences.

Abstract: An autonomous futures contract orchestration platform includes a set of processors programmed with a set of non-transitory computer-readable instructions. The instructions include receiving, from a data source, an indication associated with a product that relates to an entity that purchases or sells the product. The instructions include predicting a baseline cost of purchasing or selling the product at a future point in time based on the indication. The instructions include retrieving a futures cost, at a current point in time, of a futures contract for an obligation to the purchasing or selling the product for delivery or performance of the product at the future point in time. The instructions include executing a smart contract for the futures contract based on the baseline cost and the futures cost. The instructions include orchestrating the delivery or performance of the product at the future point in time.

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for facilitating a routing recommendation system based on user activities. In some aspects, an embodiment includes receiving input data comprising a list of activities requested by a user of an autonomous vehicle (AV) ride-hailing service and a point of destination requested by the user; mapping locations of interest corresponding to the list of activities; generating an ordered list of the locations of interest based on a user profile and historical data of the user; supplementing the ordered list of the locations of interest based on other historical data of other users of the AV ride-hailing service to generate a recommended list of places; applying a K-means clustering technique to the recommended list of places to identify one or more sets of recommendations and a centroid location for each set of recommendations; and providing a routing recommendation corresponding to a selected set of the sets of recommendations.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing location-based appointment operations is disclosed. The method includes receiving input indicating an instruction to perform an action related to appointments. Responsive to the input indicating the instruction to perform the action related to appointments, image recognition techniques may be used to determine that a computing device is proximate to a physical location where locations are schedulable. Then, responsive to determining that the computing device is proximate to the physical location, information related to scheduling appointments at the physical location is received via a network. The indication based on the received information is presented at the computing device. Input requesting an action in relation to an appointment at the physical location may be received at the computing device. An indication to initiate the requested action may be sent via the network. Related computing devices and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: A taxi vehicle management method includes: evaluating, based on DR contribution history information, a degree of contribution to demand response for energy management by a driver of a taxi vehicle, the DR contribution history information indicating a history of contribution to the DR by the driver using a power storage device of the taxi vehicle; and determining a calculation formula of a fare of the taxi vehicle driven by the driver, using a result of evaluation of the degree of contribution by the driver. The determining the calculation formula of the fare includes determining the calculation formula of the fare such that the fare becomes lower as the degree of contribution to the DR by the driver becomes higher.

Abstract: A visitor management system, which can accurately determine if a visitor presents a proper ticket for the visitor's personal attribute, includes: a reader configured to read ticket information in a ticket medium; a camera configured to capture an image of the visitor; a control device configured to acquire a personal attribute of the visitor from the captured image, determine if consistency is achieved between the ticket information from the reader and the acquired personal attribute, and generate a management screen including determination result information; and a display configured to display the management screen. The determination result information generated by the control device may include a number of persons for each ticket type and a number of persons for each personal attribute, and inconsistency information indicating that consistency is not achieved.

Abstract: An autonomous futures contract orchestration platform includes a set of processors programmed with a set of non-transitory computer-readable instructions. The instructions include receiving, from a data source, an indication associated with a product that relates to an entity that purchases or sells the product. The instructions include predicting a baseline cost of purchasing or selling the product at a future point in time based on the indication. The instructions include retrieving a futures cost, at a current point in time, of a futures contract for an obligation to the purchasing or selling the product for delivery or performance of the product at the future point in time. The instructions include executing a smart contract for the futures contract based on the baseline cost and the futures cost. The instructions include orchestrating the delivery or performance of the product at the future point in time.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to acquire reservation information for a booth, and give an instruction for change related to a disposed object that is disposed inside and/or outside the booth based on the acquired reservation information.

Abstract: An online concierge system delivers items from retailers to customers. The online concierge predicts a range of times during which an order may be fulfilled for presentation to a user. The online concierge system uses a trained maximum time prediction model to determine a maximum time for order fulfillment based on an order. A trained minimum time prediction model determines a minimum time for order fulfillment from the order and the maximum time. The minimum time may account for one or more rules (e.g., a percentage of orders fulfilled before the minimum time, a desired rate of selection of a range including the minimum time). A range bounded by the maximum time and the minimum time is transmitted to a customer to enable the customer to select a time interval for order fulfillment.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a reaction information use unit configured to use reaction information indicating a reaction of a user to presented information in a case where use of the reaction information has been permitted.

Abstract: A shipping management system includes one or more computer systems coupled to a network and a data storage device. The shipping management system uses one or more ingest modules to collect shipping information from the computer systems of multiple carriers. The shipping management system uses one or more normalization modules to normalize carrier specific data. The shipping management system uses one or more prediction modules to analyze the normalized shipping information using a set of prediction rules. The shipping management system identifies carrier exceptions and generates predicted exceptions based on the normalized shipping information. The shipping management system can selectively generate notifications, take actions, and/or resolve identified and generated exceptions.

Abstract: A parking control device performs parking control such that a vehicle is parked in a reserved parking area in an automatic valet parking lot including a plurality of parking areas. When the vehicle arrives at the automatic valet parking lot before an entrance time for the reserved parking area, the parking control device determines whether the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available, the parking control device determines whether a temporary parking area which is an area other than the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the temporary parking area is available, the parking control device performs parking control such that the vehicle is parked in the temporary parking area.

Abstract: A parking control device performs parking control such that a vehicle is parked in a reserved parking area in an automatic valet parking lot including a plurality of parking areas. When the vehicle arrives at the automatic valet parking lot before an entrance time for the reserved parking area, the parking control device determines whether the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available, the parking control device determines whether a temporary parking area which is an area other than the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the temporary parking area is available, the parking control device performs parking control such that the vehicle is parked in the temporary parking area.

Abstract: A parking control device performs parking control such that a vehicle is parked in a reserved parking area in an automatic valet parking lot including a plurality of parking areas. When the vehicle arrives at the automatic valet parking lot before an entrance time for the reserved parking area, the parking control device determines whether the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available, the parking control device determines whether a temporary parking area which is an area other than the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the temporary parking area is available, the parking control device performs parking control such that the vehicle is parked in the temporary parking area.

Abstract: A warehousing and shipping management system stores first coded information contained in optical recognition codes attached to each of a plurality of objects and second coded information contained in object-attached radio communication tags attached to each of the plurality of objects, acquire the first coded information contained in the optical recognition code attached to a target object, automatically acquires location information of each of the object-attached radio communication tags and location information of an operator's radio communication tag; and associates the stored first coded information corresponding to the optical recognition code attached to the target object and the stored second coded information corresponding to the object-attached radio communication tag attached to the target object on the basis of location information of each of the object-attached radio communication tags and location information of the operator's radio communication tag when the first coded information is acquired.

Abstract: Techniques and examples pertaining to baggage transportation in a vehicle-sharing environment are described. An automotive vehicle may have a plurality of baggage compartments each respectively having a size capacity and a weight capacity. The vehicle may also have a plurality of sensors capable of monitoring a loading situation of the plurality of baggage compartments. The vehicle may further have a memory element capable of storing capacity data representing the loading situation, as well as a processor capable of updating the capacity data in an event that the loading situation is changed due to a baggage having been loaded to, or unloaded from, a baggage compartment of the plurality of the baggage compartment. The automotive vehicle may be an autonomous ride-sharing vehicle.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing location-based appointment operations is disclosed. The method includes receiving input indicating an instruction to perform an action related to appointments. Responsive to the input indicating the instruction to perform the action related to appointments, it may be determined that a computing device is proximate to a physical location where locations are schedulable. Then, responsive to determining that the computing device is proximate to the physical location, information related to scheduling appointments at the physical location is received via a network. The indication based on the received information is presented at the computing device. Input requesting an action in relation to an appointment at the physical location may be received at the computing device. An indication to initiate the requested action may be sent via the network. Related computing devices and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: An item management system and a key management system are provided. The key management system includes a plurality of keys, each key including an RFID tag in association therewith; a plurality of key storage positions, each for storing one or more of the plurality of keys; a visual indicator associated with each of the storage positions, the visual indicator configured to indicate a status of one or more of the key storage positions; at least one RFID reader configured to read the RFID tags of the plurality of keys; and at least one processor, coupled to the at least one RFID reader, the at least one processor configured to determine the presence of at least one of the plurality of keys in an associated storage position of the plurality of key storage positions.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to acquire a rental request for a company vehicle used for a business operation of a company, select the company vehicle, in response to the rental request, from among private vehicles that are used by employees of the company when they go to work and are available as the company vehicle, and provide, in a case where a private vehicle is selected in selecting the company vehicle in response to the rental request and rented out as the company vehicle, to a requestor who has sent the rental request availability information that enables the requestor to use the selected private vehicle.