Patents by Inventor Nicholas Caston

Nicholas Caston 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).

  • Automatic booking of transportation based on context of a user of a computing device
    Patent number: 11645589
    Abstract: A system is described that infers that a user will need to complete a trip and selects a transportation service that the user can use to complete the trip. The system predicts a time to request a vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip such that the request has sufficiently high degree of likelihood, of causing the vehicle to arrive at a future location by a final departure time; the final departure time being a latest time at which the user is predicted to need to begin traveling. Responsive to determining that a current time is within a threshold amount of time of the predicted time, the system sends, to a reservation system associated with the transportation service, a reservation request for the vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cayden Meyer, Jennifer King Kilpatrick, Xudong Yang, Nicholas Caston, Harold H. W. Kim
  • AUTOMATIC BOOKING OF TRANSPORTATION BASED ON CONTEXT OF A USER OF A COMPUTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200272948
    Abstract: A system is described that infers that a user will need to complete a trip and selects a transportation service that the user can use to complete the trip. The system predicts a time to request a vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip such that the request has sufficiently high degree of likelihood, of causing the vehicle to arrive at a future location by a final departure time; the final departure time being a latest time at which the user is predicted to need to begin traveling. Responsive to determining that a current time is within a threshold amount of time of the predicted time, the system sends, to a reservation system associated with the transportation service, a reservation request for the vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Cayden Meyer, Jennifer King Kilpatrick, Xudong Yang, Nicholas Caston, Harold H.W. Kim
  • Automatic booking of transportation based on context of a user of a computing device
    Patent number: 10685297
    Abstract: A system is described that infers that a user will need to complete a trip and selects a transportation service that the user can use to complete the trip. The system predicts a time to request a vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip such that the request has sufficiently high degree of likelihood, of causing the vehicle to arrive at a future location by a final departure time; the final departure time being a latest time at which the user is predicted to need to begin traveling. Responsive to determining that a current time is within a threshold amount of time of the predicted time, the system sends, to a reservation system associated with the transportation service, a reservation request for the vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cayden Meyer, Jennifer King Kilpatrick, Xudong Yang, Nicholas Caston, Harold H. W. Kim
  • AUTOMATIC BOOKING OF TRANSPORTATION BASED ON CONTEXT OF A USER OF A COMPUTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170147951
    Abstract: A system is described that infers that a user will need to complete a trip and selects a transportation service that the user can use to complete the trip. The system predicts a time to request a vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip such that the request has sufficiently high degree of likelihood, of causing the vehicle to arrive at a future location by a final departure time; the final departure time being a latest time at which the user is predicted to need to begin traveling. Responsive to determining that a current time is within a threshold amount of time of the predicted time, the system sends, to a reservation system associated with the transportation service, a reservation request for the vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Cayden Meyer, Jennifer King Kilpatrick, Xudong Yang, Nicholas Caston, Harold H.W. Kim