Cab transportation customers membership subscriptons services (including daily passes).

Abstract

The present invention relates to a taxi subscription service, whereby the subscription can occur on a monthly or annual basis, and whereby the subscription includes daily passes that allow subscribers

Claims

Independent Claim 1 (Method)A computer-implemented method for providing pre-defined membership access to a cab transportation service, the method comprising:1-presenting, via a website or mobile app, a plurality of fixed-price or variable membership options comprising a monthly Subscription, or annual Subscription Including a option of one time daily pass;receiving, from a user, a selection of one of the membership options and creating a membership record that stores the selected option, a start time, an end time, and an active or inactive status flag;receiving, from the same user, a credential selected from the group consisting of a PIN, a time-based one-time code, and a fingerprint template, and storing the credential in an encrypted credential store linked to the user's identifier;2-receiving, from the user, a ride request that includes the user's identifier and the stored credential;from the user, a ride request that includes the user's identifier and the stored credential;3- validating the credential against the stored credential;verifying that the current time falls within the start and end times of the membership record and that the status flag is active;upon successful validation and verification, generating an authorization token and transmitting it to a ride-dispatch module, which assigns an available cab to the user; and recording the ride under the membership record for usage tracking.Independent Claim 2 (System)A system for managing pre-defined membership access to a cab transportation service, the system comprising:a subscription-management server configured to present fixed-price membership options (monthly, annual, daily) on a website or mobile app and to create membership records;a credential-enrollment server configured to receive and securely store a user-selected credential (PIN, TOTP code, or fingerprint template) linked to the user's identifier;a membership-verification engine that, upon receipt of a ride request containing the identifier and credential, validates the credential and confirms that the membership record is active for the current time;an authorization generator that issues an authorization token when validation succeeds; anda ride-dispatch interface that, upon receipt of the token, matches the user with an available vehicle and logs the ride under the corresponding membership record.Dependent Claim 3 (Method)The method of claim 1, wherein the credential is a PIN encrypted with AES-256 beforestorage.Dependent Claim 4 (Method)The method of claim 1, wherein the time-based one-time code is generated according to RFC 6238 (TOTP) using a secret key unique to the user.Dependent Claim 5 (Method)The method of claim 1, wherein the fingerprint template is stored as a cancellable biometric hash that cannot be reverse-engineered.Dependent Claim 6 (Method)The method of claim 1, further comprising: after a successful ride, decrementing a usage counter associated with a daily pass and automatically deactivating the pass when the counter reaches zero.Dependent Claim 7 (System)The system of claim 2, wherein the subscription-management server and credential-enrollment server communicate over a mutually authenticated TLS channel.Dependent Claim 8 (System)The system of claim 2, wherein the ride-dispatch interface integrates with a geographic-information system to select the nearest vehicle based on real-time location data.Dependent Claim 9 (System)The system of claim 2, wherein the membership-verification engine logs each credential validation attempt for security-audit purposes.