Patents by Inventor Matsuo Sawahashi

Matsuo Sawahashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11532061
    Abstract: Managing ridesharing vehicles by receiving passenger data comprising pick-up and drop-off location data of passengers, recording the passenger data in one or more queues corresponding to one or more pick-up locations of the pick-up location data, and sending information associated with a first pick-up location to a first vehicle. In response to the first vehicle arriving at the first pick-up location, extracting data of passengers exiting the first vehicle at the first pick-up location, retrieving passenger data from a first queue corresponding to the first pick-up location according to a capacity of the first vehicle, and updating a passenger ledger of the first vehicle according to the data of the passengers exiting the first vehicle at the first pick-up location and the passenger data retrieved from the first queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Matsuo Sawahashi, Takashi Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20210274313
    Abstract: A computer-implemented scheduling method, a base unit for a reservation management system, and a computer program product for computerized reservation management. One method may comprise acquiring a plurality of temporary reservations from a plurality of customers, calculating a resource usage probability function for each of the plurality of customers using the probability functions associated with the plurality of temporary reservations, matching the plurality of customers with a plurality of mobile resources based on the calculated resource usage probability functions, and dispatching one of the plurality of mobile resources to a pickup location in response to the matching. The plurality of temporary reservations may include probability functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Matsuo Sawahashi, Takashi Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11089440
    Abstract: A computer-implemented scheduling method, a base unit for a reservation management system, and a computer program product for computerized reservation management. One method may comprise acquiring a plurality of temporary reservations from a plurality of customers, calculating a resource usage probability function for each of the plurality of customers using the probability functions associated with the plurality of temporary reservations, matching the plurality of customers with a plurality of mobile resources based on the calculated resource usage probability functions, and dispatching one of the plurality of mobile resources to a pickup location in response to the matching. The plurality of temporary reservations may include probability functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matsuo Sawahashi, Takashi Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20210004929
    Abstract: Managing ridesharing vehicles by receiving passenger data comprising pick-up and drop-off location data of passengers, recording the passenger data in one or more queues corresponding to one or more pick-up locations of the pick-up location data, and sending information associated with a first pick-up location to a first vehicle. In response to the first vehicle arriving at the first pick-up location, extracting data of passengers exiting the first vehicle at the first pick-up location, retrieving passenger data from a first queue corresponding to the first pick-up location according to a capacity of the first vehicle, and updating a passenger ledger of the first vehicle according to the data of the passengers exiting the first vehicle at the first pick-up location and the passenger data retrieved from the first queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Matsuo Sawahashi, Takashi Yanagisawa