Patents by Inventor Vinuth Rai

Vinuth Rai 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).

  • Publication number: 20220092719
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system, method and graphical user interfaces (“GUIs”) for providing an onboard vehicle sharing system. The system may include an onboard vehicle sharing system installed in a vehicle. The onboard vehicle sharing system may include a processor, a touchscreen installed in the vehicle and a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the touchscreen and the processor. The non-transitory computer-readable medium may store computer instructions that are executable by the processor to perform or control performance of operations for providing an onboard vehicle sharing service. The operations may include receiving an input to the touchscreen indicating a sharing mode for the vehicle. The sharing mode may include a Share Ride mode or a Share Vehicle mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: Vinuth Rai
  • Patent number: 10726639
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a method for determining, based on vehicle sensor data associated with a vehicle, a current vehicle condition associated with the vehicle that is detrimental to operation of the vehicle and receiving a condition message that includes mitigating action plan data describing one or more steps configured to alter the current vehicle condition, the mitigating action plan data including an offer fulfillment location included in a route of a journey for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
  • Patent number: 10449918
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for reconfiguring a vehicle based on one or more preferences of a first user without the first user directly providing an input to the vehicle to reconfigure the vehicle. The method may include wirelessly receiving first user profile data at a vehicle. The first user profile data may be associated with a first user. The first user profile data may describe how one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for the first user. Upon receipt of the first user profile data, the vehicle may be configured in accordance with second user profile data describing how the one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for a second user. The method may include reconfiguring the one or more settings of the vehicle based on the first user profile data so that the vehicle is reconfigured for the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Inventor: Vinuth Rai
  • Publication number: 20190126867
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for reconfiguring a vehicle based on one or more preferences of a first user without the first user directly providing an input to the vehicle to reconfigure the vehicle. The method may include wirelessly receiving first user profile data at a vehicle. The first user profile data may be associated with a first user. The first user profile data may describe how one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for the first user. Upon receipt of the first user profile data, the vehicle may be configured in accordance with second user profile data describing how the one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for a second user. The method may include reconfiguring the one or more settings of the vehicle based on the first user profile data so that the vehicle is reconfigured for the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Vinuth Rai
  • Patent number: 10196021
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for reconfiguring a vehicle based on one or more preferences of a first user without the first user directly providing an input to the vehicle to reconfigure the vehicle. The method may include wirelessly receiving first user profile data at a vehicle. The first user profile data may be associated with a first user. The first user profile data may describe how one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for the first user. Upon receipt of the first user profile data, the vehicle may be configured in accordance with second user profile data describing how the one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for a second user. The method may include reconfiguring the one or more settings of the vehicle based on the first user profile data so that the vehicle is reconfigured for the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Inventor: Vinuth Rai
  • Publication number: 20180276903
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a method for determining, based on vehicle sensor data associated with a vehicle, a current vehicle condition associated with the vehicle that is detrimental to operation of the vehicle and receiving a condition message that includes mitigating action plan data describing one or more steps configured to alter the current vehicle condition, the mitigating action plan data including an offer fulfillment location included in a route of a journey for the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
  • Patent number: 9996987
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for determining, based on vehicle sensor data associated with the vehicle, a current vehicle condition that is detrimental to operation of the vehicle, transmitting, by a mobile computing device programmed to perform the transmitting, a description of the current vehicle condition to a condition message provider, and receiving a condition message that includes offer data and mitigating plan data describing one or more steps configured to alter the current vehicle condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
  • Patent number: 9925936
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for reconfiguring a second vehicle based on one or more preferences of a user without the user directly providing an input to the second vehicle to reconfigure the second vehicle. The method may include wirelessly receiving user profile data at a second vehicle. The user profile data may indicate one or more preference of the user. The method may also include updating one or more settings of the second vehicle based on the user profile data so that the second vehicle is reconfigured based on the one or more preferences of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventor: Vinuth Rai
  • Patent number: 9705990
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for communicating digital data from a mobile client device to a mobile system. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: obtain journey context data that includes data describing a future journey; determine digital data to transmit to the mobile system based on the journey context data; detect a presence of the mobile system; verify that the digital data is valid for the mobile system based on the journey context data; and send the digital data to the mobile system responsive to detecting the presence of the mobile system and the digital data being valid for the mobile system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Kresse, Vinuth Rai, Roger Melen
  • Patent number: 9705971
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for communicating digital data to a mobile client device. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: determine an operation state of a mobile client device; determine digital data to transmit to the mobile client device based on the operation state; determine a location associated with the mobile client device; determine a data transfer capacity associated with the mobile client device at the location; determine a data consumption rate associated with the mobile client device; determine a data transfer rate for the mobile client device based on the data transfer capacity and the data consumption rate; and transfer the digital data to the mobile client device based on the operation state and the data transfer rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Ugur Oezdemir, Vinuth Rai
  • Publication number: 20170072883
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for reconfiguring a vehicle based on one or more preferences of a first user without the first user directly providing an input to the vehicle to reconfigure the vehicle. The method may include wirelessly receiving first user profile data at a vehicle. The first user profile data may be associated with a first user. The first user profile data may describe how one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for the first user. Upon receipt of the first user profile data, the vehicle may be configured in accordance with second user profile data describing how the one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for a second user. The method may include reconfiguring the one or more settings of the vehicle based on the first user profile data so that the vehicle is reconfigured for the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventor: Vinuth RAI
  • Patent number: 9581456
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for determining a current location of a user at a current time. The method may include determining journey data associated with one or more of the user, the current location, and the current time, where journey data describes one or more historical journeys of the user. The method may include determining, based on the journey data, an estimated time of arrival (ETA) describing an arrival estimate of when the user and a vehicle will arrive at an endpoint of a journey; and transmitting the ETA to a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jackie Liao, Roger Melen, Vinuth Rai, Hidenobu Suzuki, Toshiyuki Namba
  • Patent number: 9554258
    Abstract: A system or method for providing recommended items for presentation to users and/or consideration by vehicle systems may be executable to: retrieve social network data associated with a user; extract a keyword and/or a key phrase from the social network data; and determine a preference model that includes a frequency analysis associated with the keyword and/or the key phrase and indicating how often the keyword and/or the key phrase are observed in the social network data. The system may further receive a request for content data; search a content database to retrieve one or more content items based on the frequency analysis associated with the preference model; generate one or more recommended items for the user or for a vehicle system from the one or more content items; and provide the one or more recommended items for presentation to the user or for processing by the vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Dustin Harber, Vinuth Rai, Roger D. Melen
  • Patent number: 9533640
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for reconfiguring a vehicle based on one or more preferences of a first user without the first user directly providing an input to the vehicle to reconfigure the vehicle. The method may include wirelessly receiving first user profile data at a vehicle. The first user profile data may be associated with a first user. The first user profile data may describe how one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for the first user. Upon receipt of the first user profile data, the vehicle may be configured in accordance with second user profile data describing how the one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for a second user. The method may include reconfiguring the one or more settings of the vehicle based on the first user profile data so that the vehicle is reconfigured for the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Vinuth Rai
  • Publication number: 20160371894
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for determining, based on vehicle sensor data associated with the vehicle, a current vehicle condition that is detrimental to operation of the vehicle, transmitting, by a mobile computing device programmed to perform the transmitting, a description of the current vehicle condition to a condition message provider, and receiving a condition message that includes offer data and mitigating plan data describing one or more steps configured to alter the current vehicle condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
  • Patent number: 9484025
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for configuring custom vocabularies for personalized speech recognition. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: detect a provisioning trigger event; determine a state of a journey associated with a user based on the provisioning trigger event; determine one or more interest places based on the state of the journey; populate a place vocabulary associated with the user using the one or more interest places; filter the place vocabulary based on one or more place filtering parameters; and register the filtered place vocabulary for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Divya Sai Toopran, Vinuth Rai, Rahul Parundekar
  • Patent number: 9477970
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for determining, based on vehicle sensor data associated with the vehicle, a current vehicle condition that is detrimental to operation of the vehicle, transmitting, by a mobile computing device programmed to perform the transmitting, a description of the current vehicle condition to a condition message provider, and receiving a condition message that includes offer data and mitigating plan data describing one or more steps configured to alter the current vehicle condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
  • Publication number: 20160216123
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for determining a current location of a user at a current time. The method may include determining journey data associated with one or more of the user, the current location, and the current time, where journey data describes one or more historical journeys of the user. The method may include determining, based on the journey data, an estimated time of arrival (ETA) describing an arrival estimate of when the user and a vehicle will arrive at an endpoint of a journey; and transmitting the ETA to a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Jackie Liao, Roger Melen, Vinuth Rai, Hidenobu Suzuki, Toshiyuki Namba
  • Publication number: 20160180395
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for determining, based on vehicle sensor data associated with the vehicle, a current vehicle condition that is detrimental to operation of the vehicle, transmitting, by a mobile computing device programmed to perform the transmitting, a description of the current vehicle condition to a condition message provider, and receiving a condition message that includes offer data and mitigating plan data describing one or more steps configured to alter the current vehicle condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Vinuth RAI, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
  • Publication number: 20160167608
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for reconfiguring a vehicle based on one or more preferences of a first user without the first user directly providing an input to the vehicle to reconfigure the vehicle. The method may include wirelessly receiving first user profile data at a vehicle. The first user profile data may be associated with a first user. The first user profile data may describe how one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for the first user. Upon receipt of the first user profile data, the vehicle may be configured in accordance with second user profile data describing how the one or more settings of the vehicle should be configured for a second user. The method may include reconfiguring the one or more settings of the vehicle based on the first user profile data so that the vehicle is reconfigured for the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Vinuth RAI