Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Redirecting self-driving vehicles to a product provider based on physiological states of occupants of the self-driving vehicles
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Application No.: US14842971Application Date: 2015-09-02
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Publication No.: US09731726B2Publication Date: 2017-08-15
- Inventor: Michael S. Gordon , James R. Kozloski , Ashish Kundu , Peter K. Malkin , Clifford A. Pickover
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Law Office of Jim Boice
- Main IPC: G01C22/00
- IPC: G01C22/00 ; G05D1/00 ; B60W40/08 ; A61B5/0245 ; A61B5/053 ; A61B3/11 ; A61B5/0205 ; A61B5/16 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product redirects a self-driving vehicle (SDV) to a physical location of a product provider. A self-driving vehicle (SDV) on-board computer on an SDV receives a current location and a planned route to an initial destination of the SDV. The SDV on-board computer receives information describing real-time physiological states of one or more occupants of the SDV, and then identifies a physical location of a product provider that provides a solution to ameliorate the real-time physiological states of the one or more occupants of the SDV. The SDV on-board computer then alters the planned route of the SDV to redirect the SDV on-board computer to autonomously drive the SDV to the physical location of the product provider.
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