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Carpoolworld.com is an Internet web site that provides a free public on-line trip-matching service. Users log in and enter the street addresses of their origins (homes) and destinations (places of work), and then the system instantly shows them a list of similar trips from the stored database. The trips are also displayed visually on detailed maps. The users can contact each other by phone or e-mail to make ride-sharing arrangements. The service is primarily intended for commuters, but will work for any type of trip.
Carpoolworld.com also offers an enhanced group service, for a fee, that lets employers, institutions and municipalities brand and administer their own virtual carpool matching web site.
How does the branded virtual web site work?
Carpoolworld.com is designed so that a clients own home page and banner can wrap around the Carpoolworld.com web site, thereby branding the web site as the clients own service. The clients users can choose to find carpool matches only within their own group or within the general population. The client is provided with a suite of administrative tools to manage their user database, while the technical operation of the web site is managed by Carpoolworld.com.
Who created Carpoolworld.com?
Carpoolworld.com was developed by Max Fox and Isabelle Boulard in 2000. The partners are president and vice president of Datasphere Corporation, a company they formed in 1993 to provide computer consulting services. Datasphere Corporation owns Carpoolworld.com.
Why was Carpoolworld.com created?
Max and Isabelle have been computer software professionals since the early 1980s. In the late 1990s they began to plan a web site as an exercise to develop their Internet programming skills. In 2000, this project became Carpoolworld.com.
Why make a carpool matching system?
From its inception, the partners understood that a successful web site must provide valuable content for its visitors. Going one step further, they looked for a concept where the visitors would create their own content, which would then be of value to subsequent visitors.
Building on previous experience with inventory management and logistics systems, they designed a database architecture and programming algorithm that could match any routes anywhere on Earth efficiently, even with a high volume of widely varied stored routes. Combining the ideas above, a vision emerged of matching peoples travel needs, and the focus then proceeded to matching commuters for carpools. The economic, social and environmental benefits of carpooling cemented the concept.
Why does Carpoolworld.com have a patent?
The partners researched existing patents to make sure that they were not using anyone elses proprietary technology. Instead they found that their system was unique and could itself be patented. The partners were granted U.S. Patent # 6,751,548 on June 15, 2004.
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Datasphere Corporation 366 N. Broadway, Suite 410 Jericho, NY 11753 USA
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