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Online-to-offline services, like car-hailing services, are becoming increasingly well-known. With an online service platform, customers can request an online to offline service by an application that is installed on their smartphone (e.g. an iPhone). Consider the case of car-hailing. The online service platform can schedule a vehicle or service provider after it is notified of the request for service. In certain instances caused by positioning errors on the device that is used to position (e.g., GPS positioning drift) or a positioning device could transmit an inaccurate location to the online platform. An incorrectly assigned service provider can result in an order being misallocated when the online service platform utilizes the incorrect location. For instance that the online service platform wrongly allocates the service request to the service provider that is far from the service requester. It is therefore desirable to design new systems or methods to allocate a service to increase the precision of the existing system and methods of allocation and enhance customer experience and efficiency.
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- What are the technical terms and terms used to describe the nature of an invention? To help you find the correct terms, consult a technical dictionary.
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- European Patent Office (EPO) provides esp@cenet to access a network of Europe’s patent databases with access to machine translation of European patents.
- Japan Patent Office (JPO) – with access to machine translations of Japanese patents.
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) offers PATENTSCOPE with a full-text search of published international patent applications and machine translations for some documents, as well as a list of international patent databases.
- Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS)
- State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) with machine translation of Chinese patents.
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- Search non-patent literature. Inventions can be made public in many non-patent publications. It is recommended that you search journals, books, websites, technical catalogs, conference proceedings, and other print and electronic publications.
To review your search, you can hire a registered patent attorney to assist. A preliminary search will help one better prepare to talk about their invention and other related inventions with a professional patent attorney. In addition, the attorney will not spend too much time or money on patenting basics.