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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a system designed to provide services associated with the use of a vehicle shared between several users or a rental vehicle.
• Collaborative consumption and more specifically vehicle sharing is intensifying and is tending to become the mode of consumption of tomorrow.
• sharing is still limited by the lack of methodology and technological tools integrating these different dimensions and distributing these costs in a simple and automated way.
• some services are provided with the vehicle, or included in its rental price, others are not. It is therefore appropriate to be able to distinguish such services from one another.
• Collaborative consumption must be a simple mode of consumption, which must not hurt the owner, the user, the borrower or the tenant.
• the aim of the invention is to propose a method and a system making it possible to provide an exchange of collaborative services, in particular car sharing services, without harming the owner or the user.
• a system for managing a service related to the use by a user of a vehicle belonging to an owner other than the user, characterized in that it comprises:
• said server means comprising:
• the server means may include means for introducing distribution rules. They can also include ways to introduce service rules.
• the reconciliation means can be a means for creating an alert if the sharing data and the service data are not reconcilable.
• the system according to the invention comprises a payment medium.
• the payment medium is preferably assigned to the user so that it can serve as an identification medium.
• the payment medium can be assigned to the vehicle, and be available with said vehicle.
• the identification medium can be directly connected to the embedded application.
• the figure is a schematic representation of a system 1 according to the invention, making it possible to implement a sharing service of a motor vehicle 2.
• the vehicle is shared by its owner, at the provision of a user.
• An embedded application 11 in the vehicle 2 is installed first or second-line, for example by the vehicle manufacturer of the vehicle, directly on the electronic and / or computer network of the vehicle, or on an embedded telematic box, or on a nomadic device of smart phone type.
• a server 12, or server system remotely, manages the availability of vehicles, including their availability, reservation or use. Subsequently, the term server is used to refer to a single server or a server system.
• the server 12 is managed by a sharing operator to which the owner and the user are subscribed. The operator provides the connection between the owner and the user, for example by means of the server.
• an identification medium 13 can take the form of any medium allowing identification with or without touching. This includes, for example, an identity card, a passport, a contactless technology badge (radio, RFID, NFC) attached to personal information of the user, an identification number provided by a smartphone, a Bluetooth device, ZigBee, or any other radio protocol, or even the smartphone or the Bluetooth device itself, a magnetic stripe card, etc.
• the identification device 13 can be connected directly to the embedded application 11, for example when an RFID badge reader is connected to a telematic box in the vehicle; Alternatively, the identification device 13 can be remotely connected to the embedded application 11 via the server 12, through the connection of a smartphone, for example.
• the embedded application transmits to the server 12 data on the sharing context 14 of the vehicle, for example:
• the owner and the other user certain services are included in the rental rate.
• the kilometer rental rate of the vehicle includes the corresponding fuel consumption.
• the user makes a small journey it usually does not need to add fuel in the vehicle and the owner is still proportionally refunded fuel consumed.
• the user makes a longer journey he may have to add fuel to continue his journey. If the user pays his own fuel added, the rental rate including fuel consumption, it comes back:
• the system further comprises, to solve this difficulty:
• the reconciliation consists in crossing the purchase data 16 and the sharing data 14 in order to check their coherence.
• the reconciliation means 18 create an alert 19 which is transmitted by the system to the operator and / or the service provider 15.
• the distribution means comprise means 24 for collecting:
• the distribution rule is: "the fuel is the owner's responsibility".
• the distribution rules are the service-related parameters that define the assignment and cost support. For example, in a car-sharing service whose pricing includes fuel, the rule of allocation of a cost related to a user who would fill the vehicle himself, is to assign the entire charge to the owner.
• a service rule can be: "as a service provider I want to be paid only by the operator, and the operator has to pay the cost between the owner and the user”.
• the service rules are rules specific to the third party or service provider creating the expense. For example, in the case of the provider allowing the addition of fuel, or the tanker, it could impose to have only one customer, the operator of the car-sharing service, the operator billing the service through the means of distribution and transfer of costs.
• the dispatching means comprise an algorithm adapted to provide service payments according to the distribution rules 26, the service rules 27, the sharing data 14 and the service data 16. It calculates the cost allocations and proceeds to the debit the intervening account (s), for example the accounts of the owner and / or the user.
• a payment medium 29 usable by the user to pay for the service may consist of any medium for making the direct or indirect payment of a purchase or a service. This includes, for example, a credit card, with or without contactless payment, a check, an electronic chip card such as fuel cards, a smartphone, a combined card payment support and identification medium, etc. This payment medium can be individual, that is to say, assigned to a given user, or shared, typically if this means of payment is rather assigned to a vehicle.
• the user In the example previously mentioned, the user, other than the owner, takes a shared vehicle whose tank is filled to a quarter. At the end of the hiring it returns the vehicle with the tank filled half. In progress He has therefore been able to add fuel and pay the expense with a means of payment 29 by delegation (present in the vehicle or assigned to the user, for example a subscription card to the car-sharing service). Given the nature of the expenditure (fuel), the elements 14 provided by the car-sharing servers (car-sharing car at this time) and the elements 14 provided by the application embedded in the vehicle (location ,. ..), the fuel cost is affected and supported by the owner of the vehicle. In this service, the user pays for his fuel expenditure by a kilometer charge that includes fuel.
• the user uses the means of payment for an external expense, not eligible or not accepted by the carsharing servers, then the payment is either refused or assigned and paid for by the car. 'user.
• This expense may be food purchased at the service station and paid for at the same time as the fuel. It is therefore the same means of payment which, according to the parameters provided by the servers and the application embedded in the vehicle, directs the payment to the account of the owner or the user.
• the same user who at another time uses a second shared vehicle and makes a fuel expenditure on it, will cause the expenditure to be allocated to the account of the owner of the second vehicle.
• the same payment medium depending on the sharing level and the data reconciliation algorithm, allows, at a given moment, the flow of a fuel expense on the account of the owner of the first vehicle, and at another time, the debit on the account of the owner of the second vehicle.
• the user parks the shared vehicle on a paid parking lot and uses the payment support provided for this purpose to pay for parking.
• the payment support provided for this purpose to pay for parking.
• the parking expense is affected and paid by the user, since this expense is specific to the user.
• the owner takes back his vehicle which has been parked by the user in a pay parking
• the owner pays the parking exit the payment can be distributed between the user, for the time (vehicle reservation period by the user, even if he has not used it) during which the vehicle remained at the disposal of the user, and the owner for the rest of the time.
• the vehicle insurer can apply innovative pricing conditions such as, for example:
• the onboard telematics system equipped in particular with an accelerometer, or possibly a gyrometer, it is possible to precisely determine the driving profile of each driver. In the same way, it is possible to index the economic model, and in particular the insurance model to apply an incentive rule to good behavior (for example, -10% if you drive well).
• the means of payment is advantageously specific to each user. It is also advantageously remotely controllable by the car-sharing operator so that it can activate and deactivate it.
• the activation is preferably automatic, for example the means of payment is activated only during the rental period as determined by the car-sharing app.
• the means of payment can be controlled so that it can only be used in certain places, and for certain products, for example only for fuel and only in France. It may also be planned to control the amount or quantity of each expenditure, for example limit the purchase of fuel to fifty liters if the car-sharing application estimates that the vehicle does not need more than 50 liters, for example. example given the consumption provided by the on-board computer.
• the user has at his disposal a means of payment of his own and allows him to pay the expenses specific to the car-sharing vehicle he uses. These expenses are controlled by the application of carsharing in order to avoid fraud, application which distributes them automatically between the owner and the user.
• the means of payment is advantageously programmable and remotely controllable allowing the car-sharing operator to distribute the expenses of a car-sharing vehicle accurately, accurately and automatically.
• the server means may be part of a computer management center dedicated to the car-sharing service and comprising in particular:
• It can consist of a single or single server or a more complex architecture, hosted or in the "cloud”.
• the embedded application which can be provided by the use of calculators, components and native features of the vehicle, can include:
• GSM telecommunication means
• an accelerometer and / or a gyrometer an accelerometer and / or a gyrometer
• a system according to the invention is applicable not only to a car sharing service, but also to a carpool service or to a commercial vehicle rental service by a company.
• a shared vehicle may have an owner or be fully shared (multi-owners, community, association, etc.).
• the invention lies particularly in the sharing means, composed of a part embedded in the vehicle and a centralized part on a computer server, which allows to define a certain level of sharing of the vehicle, according to which a distribution of costs s' Applies according to predefined distribution rules and service rules.
• the invention allows a delegation payment mechanism for a car-sharing vehicle: algorithms in car-sharing servers, associated with an application embedded in the vehicles, make it possible to generate, remotely, payment delegations so that an expense on the car-sharing vehicle, paid for with an individual or shared payment medium, is paid for, partially or totally, by the owner of the vehicle, even though his vehicle is used and the expenditure is carried out by a user.

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