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).
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Publication number: 20220092719Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventor: Vinuth Rai
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Patent number: 10726639Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
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Patent number: 10449918Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Inventor: Vinuth Rai
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Publication number: 20190126867Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventor: Vinuth Rai
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Patent number: 10196021Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Vinuth Rai
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Publication number: 20180276903Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
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Patent number: 9996987Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
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Patent number: 9925936Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Inventor: Vinuth Rai
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Patent number: 9705990Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Inventors: Matthew Kresse, Vinuth Rai, Roger Melen
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Patent number: 9705971Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Inventors: Ugur Oezdemir, Vinuth Rai
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Publication number: 20170072883Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Vinuth RAI
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Patent number: 9581456Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Inventors: Jackie Liao, Roger Melen, Vinuth Rai, Hidenobu Suzuki, Toshiyuki Namba
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Patent number: 9554258Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Dustin Harber, Vinuth Rai, Roger D. Melen
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Patent number: 9533640Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Inventor: Vinuth Rai
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Publication number: 20160371894Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
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Patent number: 9484025Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Divya Sai Toopran, Vinuth Rai, Rahul Parundekar
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Patent number: 9477970Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Inventors: Vinuth Rai, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
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Publication number: 20160216123Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Jackie Liao, Roger Melen, Vinuth Rai, Hidenobu Suzuki, Toshiyuki Namba
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Publication number: 20160180395Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Vinuth RAI, Dustin Harber, Divya Sai Toopran, Matthew Kresse, Ugur Oezdemir
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Publication number: 20160167608Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventor: Vinuth RAI