Patents by Inventor Randall M. Harris
Randall M. Harris 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).
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Publication number: 20240027216Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a transport, a request for a service from a transport occupant, determining, by the transport, a profile of the transport occupant, identifying, by the transport, at least one profile shared with the transport occupant based on the profile of the transport occupant, and providing the service to the transport occupant based on the at least one profile shared with the transport occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Anil Nagpal, Randall M. Harris
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Publication number: 20240019262Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of linking a mobile device and a vehicle, configuring, on the mobile device, a data service request, receiving at a controller area network of the vehicle the data service request from the mobile device, and displaying within the vehicle a data set responsive to the configuring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Randall M. Harris
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Publication number: 20240008111Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, vehicle identification data from at least two components in a vehicle and device data from a device associated with the vehicle, sending, by the server, the vehicle identification data to the device and the device data to the at least two components in the vehicle, and pre-pairing the vehicle and the device, based on the sending.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Derek A. Thompson, Randall M. Harris
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Publication number: 20230349707Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a target device has entered a transport and has initiated a transport event at a target location, applying permissions, associated with the target device, to the transport event, determining a transport event modification has occurred, when the transport has stopped moving for a predetermined period of time and one or more transport operations have occurred, prior to arriving at a transport event destination, determining whether the permissions permit the transport event modification, and notifying one or more registered devices associated with the target device of the transport event modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Emily S. Lerner, Nutonya L. Parker, Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
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Patent number: 11788852Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a transport, a request for a service from a transport occupant, determining, by the transport, a profile of the transport occupant, identifying, by the transport, at least one profile shared with the transport occupant based on the profile of the transport occupant, and providing the service to the transport occupant based on the at least one profile shared with the transport occupant.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Anil Nagpal, Randall M. Harris
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Publication number: 20230196413Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a transport, a service provider within a range of the transport, determining, by the transport, if a transport occupant profile exists on a storage, querying, by the transport, the transport occupant profile on the storage based on the service provider, and responsive to the transport occupant profile containing data associated with the service provider, displaying service provider-related information when the transport is proximate to the service provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
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Patent number: 11657441Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a service provider transport, a transport within a range of the service provider transport, querying, by the service provider transport, a transport occupant profile on a storage, and responsive to the transport occupant profile containing data associated with a service provided by the service provider transport, sending service-related information to the transport.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
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Patent number: 11615381Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of entering, by a transport, a geo-fence, wherein the geo-fence is associated with a physical area, determining, by a server, a responsibility associated with the entering, providing, by the server, the responsibility to the transport, and verifying, by the server, that the responsibility is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Randall M. Harris
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Patent number: 11615499Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request from a requesting device to initiate a transport to perform a transport event at a target location, identifying the transport to perform the transport event, identifying a target device associated with the transport event is located at the target location, receiving location updates of the transport and the target device at a server, determining the transport has initiated the transport event based on the location updates of the transport, determining the target device and the transport are proximate to one another based on the location updates, and monitoring the location updates to identify whether the transport has deviated from a target travel path area.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Emily S. Lerner, Nutonya L. Parker, Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
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Patent number: 11588931Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request from an occupant in a first transport to initiate a voice communication with an occupant in a second transport, determining the occupant in the second transport is available for the voice communication based on a length of time the occupant will remain in the first transport and a length of time the occupant will remain in the second transport, and responsive to the determining, enabling the voice communication between the occupant in the first transport and the occupant in the second transport.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
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Patent number: 11388582Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a transport, a service selection by a transport occupant inside the transport, accessing, by the transport, a profile of the transport occupant on a remote storage, determining, by the transport, if the profile of the transport occupant contains a subscription for the service selection, responsive to the profile of the transport occupant not having the subscription, acquiring permissions to use the service selection from a plurality of transports having profiles connected to the profile of the transport occupant, and providing the service selection to the transport occupant based on the permissions.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Anil Nagpal, Randall M. Harris
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Publication number: 20220191319Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request from an occupant in a first transport to initiate a voice communication with an occupant in a second transport, determining the occupant in the second transport is available for the voice communication based on a length of time the occupant will remain in the first transport and a length of time the occupant will remain in the second transport, and responsive to the determining, enabling the voice communication between the occupant in the first transport and the occupant in the second transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2022Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
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Patent number: 11313765Abstract: A vehicle certification system includes an emissions sensor configured to capture emissions data of a subject vehicle, a local computing system that includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable memory, an imaging device communicatively coupled to the processor, a display communicatively coupled to the processor, and a machine-readable instruction set stored in the non-transitory computer readable memory that, when executed by the processor, causes the local computing system to capture image data of the subject vehicle, and a remote server that is configured to receive the emissions data captured by the emissions sensor, determine compliance with at least one emissions criterion based on the emissions data, receive the image data of the subject vehicle captured by the local computing system, and determine compliance with at least one visually verifiable inspection criterion based on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Toyota Connected North America, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy J. Onekea, Darren K. Masumori, Randall M. Harris
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Patent number: 11310357Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request from an occupant in a first transport to initiate a voice communication with an occupant in a second transport, determining the occupant in the second transport is available for the voice communication based on a length of time the occupant will remain in the first transport and a length of time the occupant will remain in the second transport, and responsive to the determining, enabling the voice communication between the occupant in the first transport and the occupant in the second transport.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
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Patent number: 11302181Abstract: A method for enhancing data access capabilities of vehicles is provided. The method includes obtaining, by a first vehicle having a first level of autonomy, data in a first format, receiving, from a second vehicle having a second level of autonomy, a request for the data, converting the data from a first format to a second format based on the second level of autonomy, and transmitting the data in the second format to the second vehicle. The data in the second format is compatible with the second level of autonomy. The second level of autonomy is lower than the first level of autonomy.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Randall M. Harris
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Publication number: 20220020268Abstract: A method for enhancing data access capabilities of vehicles is provided. The method includes obtaining, by a first vehicle having a first level of autonomy, data in a first format, receiving, from a second vehicle having a second level of autonomy, a request for the data, converting the data from a first format to a second format based on the second level of autonomy, and transmitting the data in the second format to the second vehicle. The data in the second format is compatible with the second level of autonomy. The second level of autonomy is lower than the first level of autonomy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Randall M. HARRIS
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Publication number: 20220014619Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request from an occupant in a first transport to initiate a voice communication with an occupant in a second transport, determining the occupant in the second transport is available for the voice communication based on a length of time the occupant will remain in the first transport and a length of time the occupant will remain in the second transport, and responsive to the determining, enabling the voice communication between the occupant in the first transport and the occupant in the second transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
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Publication number: 20210312521Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a service provider transport, a transport within a range of the service provider transport, querying, by the service provider transport, a transport occupant profile on a storage, and responsive to the transport occupant profile containing data associated with a service provided by the service provider transport, sending service-related information to the transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
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Publication number: 20210312505Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a transport, a service provider within a range of the transport, determining, by the transport, if a transport occupant profile exists on a storage, querying, by the transport, the transport occupant profile on the storage based on the service provider, and responsive to the transport occupant profile containing data associated with the service provider, displaying service provider-related information when the transport is proximate to the service provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
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Publication number: 20210312490Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a service provider system, a transport within a range, sending, by the service provider system, a service offer to the transport, responsive to an acceptance of the service offer, acquiring agreements to perform a service from a plurality of service provider transports, and selecting, by the service provider system, a service provider transport from the plurality of service provider transports based on the agreements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal