CN111798258A

CN111798258A - Service request price calculation method, device and system

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Publication number: CN111798258A
Application number: CN201910280445.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 付剑超
Original assignee: Beijing Didi Infinity Technology and Development Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Didi Infinity Technology and Development Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-04-09
Filing date: 2019-04-09
Publication date: 2020-10-20
Also published as: WO2020207418A1

Abstract

The invention provides a method, a device and a system for calculating a service request price, and relates to the technical field of internet. The method comprises the steps of receiving a service request sent by a service request end, wherein the service request comprises an origin and an initial destination; calculating an initial price from the origin and the initial destination; obtaining an alternate destination different from the initial destination; a target price is determined from the initial destination and the alternate destination, and the initial price is replaced with the target price. The device is used for executing the method, and when the destination is changed, the replacement destination is obtained, the target price is determined according to the initial destination and the replacement destination, and the target price is used for replacing the initial price, so that the service provider and the service requester can pay according to the target price, namely, the standard of asking for price of the service provider and the payment standard of the service requester are given, and the probability of conflict between the service provider and the service requester is reduced.

Description

Service request price calculation method, device and system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of internet, in particular to a method, a device and a system for calculating service request price.

Background

Currently, there are various types of services provided by a network appointment car, such as: express cars, special cars, designated drives, etc., and even take-away services. For special-price cars, after a user inputs a starting point and an end point, the network appointment platform calculates a corresponding one-price according to the starting point and the end point, and passengers can pay according to the calculated one-price.

However, it is inevitable that the passenger changes the destination during the journey, and the passenger may modify the destination online, or may negotiate with the driver offline, and when modifying the destination offline, the passenger may easily conflict with the driver due to the price.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, an object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium for calculating a service request price, which are capable of solving a conflict between a service requester and a service provider due to a destination change and a difficulty in mediation therebetween in the prior art by determining a target price according to an initial destination and an alternate destination when the alternate destination replaces the initial destination, and achieving effects of providing a reasonable target price and reducing a probability of a conflict between the service requester and the service provider.

According to one aspect of the invention, an electronic device is provided that may include one or more storage media and one or more processors in communication with the storage media. One or more storage media store machine-readable instructions executable by a processor. When the electronic device is running, the processor communicates with the storage medium via the bus, and the processor executes the machine-readable instructions to perform one or more of the following operations:

receiving a service request sent by a service request end, wherein the service request comprises an origin and an initial destination;

calculating an initial price from the origin and the initial destination;

obtaining an alternate destination different from the initial destination;

determining a target price according to the initial destination and the replacement destination, and replacing the initial price with the target price.

When the destination is changed, the replacement destination is obtained, the target price is determined according to the initial destination and the replacement destination, and the initial price is replaced by the target price, so that the service provider and the service requester pay according to the target price, namely, the standard of asking for price of the service provider and the payment standard of the service requester are given, and the probability of conflict between the service provider and the service requester is reduced.

In some embodiments, said determining a target price from said initial destination and said alternate destination comprises:

constructing a first preset area containing the origin and the initial destination;

and if the replacement destination is not in the first preset area, determining the target price according to the replacement destination.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the first preset area containing the origin and the initial destination is constructed, and if the replacement destination is not in the first preset area, the replacement destination does not conform to the pricing mode of the initial price, so that the target price needs to be determined again according to the replacement destination to ensure the benefit of the service provider.

In some embodiments, said constructing a first predetermined area containing said origin and said initial destination comprises:

and constructing a fan shape with a central angle as a preset angle by taking the origin as a circle center and a first preset distance as a radius as the first preset area, wherein the first preset distance is equal to the sum of the distance between the origin and the initial destination and a second preset distance, and a straight line passing through the origin and the initial destination is a symmetry axis of the fan shape.

In the embodiment of the invention, the sector with the central angle as the preset angle is constructed by taking the origin as the center of a circle and taking the first preset distance as the radius as the first preset area, and if the replacement destination is not in the first preset area, the replacement destination does not conform to the pricing mode of the initial price, so that the target price needs to be determined again according to the replacement destination to ensure the benefit of a service provider.

constructing a second preset area by taking the initial destination as a circle center and the second preset distance as a radius, wherein the first preset area comprises the second preset area, and the first preset area is smaller than the second preset area;

and if the replacement destination is in the second preset area, the target price is equal to the initial price.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the second preset area is constructed, and when the replacement destination is in the second preset area, the replacement destination is closer to the initial destination, the initial price is used as the target price, the target price does not need to be recalculated, the calculation pressure of the calculation device is reduced, and great loss is not brought to the service provider.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

obtaining an initial distance according to the origin and the initial destination, and obtaining a target distance according to the origin and the replacement destination; accordingly, the method can be used for solving the problems that,

the determining a target price from the initial destination and the alternate destination comprises:

and if the replacement destination is outside the second preset area and inside the first preset area, determining the target price according to the target distance and the initial distance.

According to the embodiment of the invention, when the replacement destination is in the first preset area but outside the second preset area, the target price is required to be determined according to the target distance and the initial distance, so that a more reasonable target price can be obtained, and the benefits of the service requester and the service provider are balanced against loss.

In some embodiments, said determining said target price from said target distance and said initial distance comprises:

judging whether the target distance is greater than the initial distance;

if so, calculating a real-time price according to the replacement destination, and taking the real-time price as the target price;

and if not, determining the target price according to the real-time price and the initial price.

According to the embodiment of the invention, when the target distance is greater than the initial distance, the real-time price needs to be calculated according to the replacement destination, so that the benefit of the service provider is ensured not to be lost; if the target distance is not greater than the initial distance, the target price needs to be determined according to the real-time price and the initial price, so that a more reasonable target price can be determined.

In some embodiments, said determining said target price from said real-time price and said initial price comprises:

selecting a smaller one of the real-time price and the initial price as the target price.

The embodiment of the invention selects the smaller one of the real-time price and the initial price as the target price, thereby ensuring the benefit of the service requester.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

obtaining an estimated arrival time according to the origin and the initial destination, and obtaining an actual arrival time to the replacement destination;

if the difference value between the actual arrival time length and the estimated arrival time length is larger than a preset threshold value, determining a target price according to the replacement destination;

and if the difference value between the actual arrival time length and the estimated arrival time length is smaller than or equal to a preset threshold value, the target price is equal to the initial price.

The embodiment of the invention can judge the expected arrival time length and the actual arrival time length to determine the target price after changing the destination, thereby leading the service provider and the service requester to receive and pay according to the target price, namely giving the standard of asking price of the service provider and giving the payment standard of the service requester, and reducing the probability of conflict between the service provider and the service requester.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

receiving a destination change request sent by the service request terminal;

and sending a change prompt message to the service request terminal according to the destination change request, wherein the change prompt message comprises a calculation inquiry entrance of the target price.

The embodiment of the invention sends the change prompt message to the service request end after receiving the destination change request sent by the service request end, and the change prompt message comprises the calculation query entrance, so that the service request party can check the pricing mode through the query entrance, and the perception of the service request party on the target price calculation mode is improved.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

receiving a query request triggering the computation query entry to send;

and sending the calculation mode of the target price to the service request terminal according to the query request so as to enable the service request terminal to display the calculation mode.

The embodiment of the invention improves the perceptibility of the service requester to the target price calculation mode by sending the target price calculation mode to the service requester.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

receiving a destination change request sent by the service request terminal;

and sending a change prompt message to the service request terminal according to the destination change request, wherein the change prompt message comprises a calculation mode of the target price.

According to the embodiment of the invention, after the destination change request sent by the service request terminal is received, the change prompt message is sent to the service request terminal, and the change prompt message comprises the pricing mode of the target home price, so that the service request party can acquire the calculation mode of the target price, and the perception of the service request party on the calculation mode of the target price is improved.

According to another aspect of the invention, a computing device of a service request price may include one or more of the following operations:

the system comprises a first receiving module, a second receiving module and a sending module, wherein the first receiving module is used for receiving a service request sent by a service request end, and the service request comprises an origin and an initial destination;

a first calculation module for calculating an initial price from the origin and the initial destination;

an obtaining module for obtaining an alternate destination different from the initial destination;

and the second calculation module is used for determining a target price according to the initial destination and the replacement destination, and replacing the initial price with the target price.

In some embodiments, the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:

the distance calculation module is used for obtaining an initial distance according to the origin and the initial destination and obtaining a target distance according to the origin and the replacement destination; accordingly, the method can be used for solving the problems that,

the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

judging whether the target distance is greater than the initial distance;

In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:

the estimation module is used for obtaining estimated arrival time according to the origin and the initial destination and obtaining actual arrival time reaching the replacement destination;

the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:

a second receiving module, configured to receive a destination change request sent by the service request end;

and the first sending module is used for sending a change prompt message to the service request terminal according to the destination change request, wherein the change prompt message comprises a calculation inquiry entrance of the target price.

In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:

a third receiving module, configured to receive a query request that triggers the computation query entry to send;

and the second sending module is used for sending the calculation mode of the target price to the service request end according to the query request so as to enable the service request end to display the calculation mode.

In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:

a fourth receiving module, configured to receive a destination change request sent by the service request end;

and a third sending module, configured to send a change prompting message to the service request end according to the destination change request, where the change prompting message includes a calculation manner of the target price.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a service system may include a service request terminal, a service providing terminal, and a calculating device for calculating a price of any one of the service request terminals.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present invention and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive efforts.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a service system provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method for calculating a service request price according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a first predetermined area according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of another first predetermined area according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a display of a modification prompt message according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a flow chart illustrating another method for calculating a service request price according to embodiments of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calculating a service request price according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it should be understood that the drawings in the present invention are for illustrative and descriptive purposes only and are not used to limit the scope of the present invention. Additionally, it should be understood that the schematic drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. The flowcharts used in this disclosure illustrate operations implemented according to some embodiments of the present invention. It should be understood that the operations of the flow diagrams may be performed out of order, and steps without logical context may be performed in reverse order or simultaneously. One skilled in the art, under the direction of this summary, may add one or more other operations to, or remove one or more operations from, the flowchart.

In addition, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. The components of embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations. Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments of the present invention without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

To enable those skilled in the art to use the present disclosure, the following embodiments are given in conjunction with a specific application scenario "passengers taking a car via network appointment software". It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the general principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Although the invention is described primarily in the context of a passenger placing an order at a price via a network appointment and changing destinations on the trip, it should be understood that this is merely an exemplary embodiment. The invention can also be used for a system for sending and/or receiving express delivery and a service system for business transaction of buyers and sellers.

It should be noted that the term "comprising" will be used in the embodiments of the invention to indicate the presence of the features stated hereinafter, but does not exclude the addition of further features.

The terms "passenger," "requestor," "service person," "service requestor," and "customer" are used interchangeably herein to refer to an individual, entity, or tool that can request or order a service. The terms "driver," "provider," "service provider," and "provider" are used interchangeably herein to refer to an individual, entity, or tool that can provide a service. The term "user" in the present disclosure may refer to an individual, entity, or tool that requests a service, subscribes to a service, provides a service, or facilitates the provision of a service. For example, the user may be a passenger, a driver, an operator, etc., or any combination thereof. In the present invention, "passenger" and "passenger terminal" are used interchangeably, and "driver" and "driver terminal" are used interchangeably.

The terms "service request" and "order" are used interchangeably herein to refer to a request initiated by a passenger, a service requester, a driver, a service provider, or a supplier, the like, or any combination thereof. Accepting the "service request" or "order" may be a passenger, a service requester, a driver, a service provider, a supplier, or the like, or any combination thereof. The service request may be charged or free.

The Positioning technology used in the present invention may be based on Global Positioning System (GPS), Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), COMPASS Navigation System (COMPASS), galileo Positioning System, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), or any combination thereof.

One aspect of the present invention relates to a service system. The system can comprise a service request end, a service providing end and a computing device, wherein the service request end can be a passenger who takes a car, a user who orders for takeaway, a user who receives express delivery and the like, the service providing end can be a driver who drives the car, a takeaway person who sends the takeaway or a courier who sends the express delivery and the like, and the computing device can be a server which can be in data communication with the service request end and the service providing end and can acquire position information and the like of the service providing end. Take the example that the passenger sends an order of the type of a bite price to the computing device through the network appointment software, wherein the bite price means that the passenger needs to pay from the origin to the initial destination set in the order to obtain a fixed fee calculated by the system, and the fixed fee is not changed due to the congestion of the route or the active detour of the driver in the journey. In practice, however, passengers may temporarily change destinations during their journey, which may not be properly billed by a fixed fee, since the alternate destination to which the passenger is arriving may be much closer to the origin than the original destination, which may be detrimental to the passenger's benefit if the passenger is still billed for a fixed fee calculated previously; if the passenger is to reach an alternate destination that may be much further from the origin than the original destination, this may be detrimental to the benefit of the driver if the passenger is still charged a fixed fee as calculated previously. Therefore, the computing device needs to re-determine the target price according to the replacement destination specified by the passenger, thereby balancing the benefits of both parties.

It should be noted that before the present invention is applied, if the passenger goes off-line with the driver to change the destination in the travel of a price order, the calculating device will not recalculate the charge, but the passenger and the driver trade off-line, which is easy to generate riding conflict. However, the calculation method of the service request price provided by the present invention can acquire the replacement destination when the destination is changed, and determine the target price from the initial destination and the replacement destination. Therefore, the driver and the passenger are provided with the standard of receiving and paying by the determined target price, and the possibility of conflict of the driver and the passenger is reduced.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a service system of some embodiments of the inventions. For example, the service system may be an online transportation service platform for transportation services such as taxi cab, designated drive service, express, carpool, bus service, driver rental, or regular service, or any combination thereof. The service system may include one or more of a computing device 110, a network 120, a service requester terminal 130, a service provider terminal 140, and a database 150, and a processor 220 executing instruction operations may be included in the computing device 110.

In some embodiments, the computing device 110 may be a single server or a group of servers. The set of servers can be centralized or distributed (e.g., the computing device 110 can be a distributed system). In some embodiments, the computing device 110 may be local or remote to the terminal. For example, the computing device 110 may access information and/or data stored in the service requester terminal 130, the service provider terminal 140, or the database 150, or any combination thereof, via the network 120. As another example, the computing device 110 may be directly connected to at least one of the service requester terminal 130, the service provider terminal 140, and the database 150 to access stored information and/or data. In some embodiments, the computing device 110 may be implemented on a cloud platform; by way of example only, the cloud platform may include a private cloud, a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, a community cloud (community cloud), a distributed cloud, an inter-cloud, a multi-cloud, and the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, computing device 110 may be implemented on an electronic device having one or more of the components shown in FIG. 2 in the present disclosure.

In some embodiments, computing device 110 may include a processor 220. Processor 220 may process information and/or data related to the service request to perform one or more of the functions described in this disclosure. For example, the processor 220 may determine the target vehicle based on a service request obtained from the service requester terminal 130. In some embodiments, processor 220 may include one or more processing cores (e.g., a single-core processor (S) or a multi-core processor (S)).

Network 120 may be used for the exchange of information and/or data. In some embodiments, one or more components in the service system (e.g., computing device 110, service requestor terminal 130, service provider terminal 140, and database 150) may send information and/or data to other components. For example, the computing device 110 may obtain a service request from the service requestor terminal 130 via the network 120. In some embodiments, the network 120 may be any type of wired or wireless network, or combination thereof. In some embodiments, network 120 may include one or more network access points. For example, network 120 may include wired or wireless network access points, such as base stations and/or network switching nodes, through which one or more components of a serving system may connect to network 120 to exchange data and/or information.

In some embodiments, the user of the service requestor terminal 130 may be someone other than the actual demander of the service. For example, user a of the service requester terminal 130 may use the service requester terminal 130 to initiate a service request for the service actual demander B (e.g., user a may call a car for his friend B), or receive service information or instructions, etc. from the computing device 110. In some embodiments, the user of the service provider terminal 140 may be the actual provider of the service or may be another person than the actual provider of the service. For example, user C of the service provider terminal 140 may use the service provider terminal 140 to receive a service request serviced by the service provider entity D (e.g., user C may take an order for driver D employed by user C), and/or information or instructions from the computing device 110. In some embodiments, "service requester" and "service requester terminal" may be used interchangeably, and "service provider" and "service provider terminal" may be used interchangeably.

In some embodiments, the service provider terminal 140 may be a similar or identical device as the service requestor terminal 130. In some embodiments, the service provider terminal 140 may be a device with location technology for locating the location of the service provider and/or the service provider terminal. In some embodiments, the service requester terminal 130 and/or the service provider terminal 140 may communicate with other locating devices to determine the location of the service requester, service requester terminal 130, service provider, or service provider terminal 140, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the service requester terminal 130 and/or the service provider terminal 140 may transmit the location information to the computing device 110.

Database 150 may store data and/or instructions. In some embodiments, the database 150 may store data obtained from the service requester terminal 130 and/or the service provider terminal 140. In some embodiments, database 150 may store data and/or instructions for the exemplary methods described in this disclosure. In some embodiments, database 150 may include mass storage, removable storage, volatile Read-write Memory, or Read-Only Memory (ROM), among others, or any combination thereof.

In some embodiments, one or more components in the service system (e.g., computing device 110, service requestor terminal 130, service provider terminal 140, etc.) may have access to database 150. In some embodiments, one or more components in the service system may read and/or modify information related to the service requestor, the service provider, or the public, or any combination thereof, when certain conditions are met. For example, the computing device 110 may read and/or modify information of one or more users after receiving a service request. As another example, the service provider terminal 140 may access information related to the service requester when receiving the service request from the service requester terminal 130, but the service provider terminal 140 may not modify the related information of the service requester.

Fig. 2 illustrates a schematic diagram of exemplary hardware and software components of an electronic device 200 of a computing apparatus 110, a service requester terminal 130, a service provider terminal 140, which may implement the concepts of the present invention, according to some embodiments of the present invention. For example, the processor 220 may be used on the electronic device 200 and to perform the functions of the present invention.

The electronic device 200 may be a general purpose computer or a special purpose computer, both of which may be used to implement the service request price calculation method of the present invention. Although only a single computer is shown, for convenience, the functions described herein may be implemented in a distributed fashion across multiple similar platforms to balance processing loads.

For example, the electronic device 200 may include a network port 210 connected to a network, one or more processors 220 for executing program instructions, a communication bus 230, and a different form of storage medium 240, such as a disk, ROM, or RAM, or any combination thereof. Illustratively, the computer platform may also include program instructions stored in ROM, RAM, or other types of non-transitory storage media, or any combination thereof. The method of the present invention can be implemented according to these program instructions. The electronic device 200 also includes an Input/Output (I/O) interface 250 between the computer and other Input/Output devices (e.g., keyboard, display screen).

For ease of illustration, only one processor 220 is depicted in the electronic device 200. However, it should be noted that the electronic device 200 in the present invention may also include a plurality of processors 220, and thus, the steps performed by one processor 220 described in the present invention may also be performed by a plurality of processors 220 in combination or individually. For example, if the processor 220 of the electronic device 200 executes step a and step B, it should be understood that step a and step B may also be executed by two different processors 220 together or executed in one processor 220 separately. For example, the first processor 220 performs step a and the second processor 220 performs step B, or the first processor 220 and the second processor 220 perform steps a and B together.

Fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method for calculating a service request price according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the method includes:

step 301: receiving a service request sent by a service request end, wherein the service request comprises an origin and an initial destination.

In the specific implementation process, when the service requester takes a car through the network car booking, the car taking type, the origin and the initial destination may be input into the network car booking software, it should be noted that the car taking type may be a one-price type, and the car taking time, the number of passengers and the like may also be set, after the setting is completed, the service requester sends a service request to the computing device, and at this time, the computing device receives the service request, where the service request includes the origin and the initial destination set by the service requester, and may also include other information, for example: the type of the bus, the time of the bus, the number of passengers and the like. It should be noted that the computing device may be a server, that is, in the case of the network car booking service, the computing device is a network car booking server, and in the case of the express service, the computing device is a server corresponding to an express service, and the like.

Step 302: an initial price is calculated from the origin and the initial destination.

In an implementation, after receiving the service request, the computing device calculates a corresponding initial price according to the origin and the initial destination in the service request, and it should be noted that, for a price order, if the actual destination reached by the vehicle is the same as the initial destination, the initial price is the fee to be paid by the service requester.

Step 303: an alternate destination different from the initial destination is obtained.

In a specific implementation process, if the service requester modifies the destination in the journey, wherein the destination can be changed by the service requester on line through the network appointment software in the journey or by negotiation with the service provider offline, if the destination is changed online, a destination change request can be sent to the computing device through the service requester, and if the destination is changed offline, the computing device can acquire specific position information of the destination after the vehicle reaches the destination. It should be noted that the alternate destination is not the same location as the original destination.

Step 304: determining a target price according to the initial destination and the replacement destination, and replacing the initial price with the target price.

In particular implementation, since the service requester changes the destination, the actual distance from the origin to the destination of the vehicle during the actual trip may be greater than or less than the initial distance, and if the actual distance is greater than the initial distance, the service requester may be required to pay more than the initial price, and if the actual distance is less than the initial distance, the service requester may be required to pay less than the initial price. Therefore, it is necessary to determine a target price, replacing the initial price with the target price. It should be noted that in addition to determining the target price based on distance, the target price may be determined by the expected answer time required from the origin to the initial destination, and the actual length of arrival time required from the origin to the alternate destination. In addition, there may be various factors that affect the target price, and this is not particularly limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

Besides taxi taking scenes, the calculation method can also be applied to delivery and take-away scenes, such as: the service requester sends a take-away order to the computing device that includes an initial destination, i.e., a take-away delivery location. Since the delivery fee for the takeaway will be determined based on the distance between the merchant and the original destination, the delivery fee may also need to be redetermined if the service requester needs to modify the destination. Therefore, when determining the delivery time, the calculation may be performed by the calculation method provided by the embodiment of the present invention. Moreover, the method can also be applied to a scene of delivering the express, and the specific application method is similar to the above situation and is not described herein again.

On the basis of the above embodiment, the determining a target price according to the initial destination and the replacement destination includes:

In a specific implementation process, a first preset area including an origin and an initial destination may be constructed on a map, specifically, as shown in fig. 4, a schematic diagram of the first preset area provided in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, a fan shape with a central angle as a preset angle may be constructed with the origin as a center and a first preset distance as a radius, where the first preset distance is equal to a sum of a distance between the origin and the initial destination and a second preset distance, and a straight line passing through the origin and the initial destination is a symmetry axis of the fan shape. The preset angle of the central angle may be 90 degrees, or may also be 80 degrees or 100 degrees, and the preset angle is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 5 is a schematic view of another first predetermined area provided by the embodiment of the invention, as shown in fig. 5, a circle can be made with a first predetermined distance as a diameter, and an area corresponding to the circle is the first predetermined area, at this time, an origin is on the circumference, and an initial destination is in the circle. It should be noted that the first preset area may also be constructed as follows: and making a square by taking the first preset distance as a side length, wherein a straight line of the starting place and the initial destination is an array axis of the square. Or the isosceles triangle which is formed by taking the starting place as one vertex and taking the sum of the distance between the starting place and the initial destination and the second preset distance as the height from the vertex corresponding to the starting place to the opposite side is the first preset area. It should be noted that the first predetermined area may also be in other shapes, including an origin and an initial destination, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto.

Since the computing device calculates the obtained initial price according to the origin and the initial destination in the service request when the service request is submitted by the service request terminal, if the replacement destination is judged to be not in the first preset area, the replacement destination is far away from the initial destination, the replacement destination is not suitable for charging by using the initial price any more, and the target price needs to be determined again according to the replacement destination. It should be noted that the pricing may be performed in a manner of express-type pricing, that is, the pricing may be performed in a manner of base fee + mileage fee (minutes time period) + long time fee (minutes time period). Other preset pricing manners may also be used, and the embodiment of the present invention is not particularly limited in this respect.

On the basis of any of the above embodiments, the determining a target price according to the initial destination and the replacement destination includes:

In a specific implementation process, a second preset region is constructed with the initial destination as a center of a circle and the second preset distance as a radius, as shown in fig. 4, the constructed second preset region should belong to a proper subset of the first preset region, that is, the first preset region is larger than the second preset region, and the first preset region includes the second preset region. As can be seen from fig. 4, if the replacement destination is within the second preset area, it means that the replacement destination is closer to the initial destination, and at this time, the charging can still be performed according to the initial price, that is, the target price is equal to the initial price.

It should be noted that the value of the second preset distance may be determined according to the distance between the origin and the initial destination, and table 1 is a value list of the second preset distance provided in the embodiment of the present invention:

TABLE 1

AB	X
		AB≤2km	0.5km
2km<AB<3km	1km
		AB≥3km	1.5km

It will be understood that AB in table 1 is the distance from the origin to the initial destination, and x is the second predetermined distance. The value range of AB and the value of x can be set according to actual conditions, and each city can be specified by self.

It should also be noted that in this case, the replacement destination specified by the service requester may be farther from the origin or closer to the origin than the initial destination, but since the replacement destination is closer to the initial destination, the charging is performed at the initial price, which can improve the experience of the service requester, and on the other hand, does not cause a large loss to the service provider, and does not require a complicated calculation by the calculation device, thereby reducing the load pressure of the calculation device.

On the basis of the above embodiment, the method further includes:

In a specific implementation process, it is also possible to replace the location of the destination, that is, outside the second preset area and within the first preset area, and for this situation, further determination is required to determine the target price, which may specifically be: and planning a driving route according to the starting place and the initial destination, obtaining an initial distance corresponding to the driving route, and obtaining a target distance according to the starting place and the replacement destination. The initial distance and the target distance are both actual driving distances, and can also be both straight-line distances. After obtaining the initial distance and the target distance, the computing device determines a target price based on the initial distance and the target distance.

When the target price is determined according to the initial distance and the target distance, whether the target distance is greater than the initial distance or not can be judged, if the target distance is greater than the initial distance, the vehicle travels a longer distance, in order to maintain the benefit of a service provider, a real-time price needs to be calculated according to an alternate destination, and the calculated real-time price is used as the target price. The real-time price calculating method may be based on the express car pricing method in the above embodiments, which is not described again in the embodiments of the present invention.

If the initial distance is not greater than the target distance, the judgment is needed again to obtain the target price, the real-time price and the initial price can be compared, if the real-time price is less than the initial price, the real-time price is taken as the target price, and if the real-time price is greater than the initial price, the initial price is taken as the target price.

On the basis of any one of the above embodiments, the method further includes:

in the implementation process, when the service requester changes the destination, in addition to determining the target price according to the position information of the replacement destination and the initial destination, the expected arrival time required from the origin to the initial destination can be obtained, and it can be understood that the calculation device can plan the driving route according to the origin and the initial destination and give the expected arrival time according to the road condition of the driving route. In addition, the computing device may also calculate the actual arrival time required from the origin to the alternate destination.

It will be appreciated that the time required is also a factor in pricing a ride.

In a specific implementation process, after the calculation device obtains the estimated arrival time and the actual arrival time, the estimated arrival time and the actual arrival time are compared, if the actual arrival time is longer than the sum of the estimated arrival time and the preset threshold, it indicates that the travel time in the journey is far longer than the estimated arrival time, and at this time, in order to maintain the benefit of the service provider, the target price needs to be determined according to the replacement destination.

If the actual arrival time length is less than or equal to the sum of the estimated arrival time length and the preset threshold, the fact that the used time length in the driving process is almost the same as the estimated arrival time length is shown, and the initial price can be used as the target price for charging.

It should be noted that the preset threshold may be 10 minutes, 15 minutes, or 20 minutes, and the preset threshold may be set according to actual situations, which is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

On the basis of any one of the above embodiments, the method further includes:

receiving a destination change request sent by the service request terminal;

In a specific implementation process, if in a process, the computing device receives a destination change request sent by a service request end, where the destination change request includes a change destination and may also include an identifier of the service request end, at this time, the computing device may obtain a corresponding service request according to the identifier of the service request end and learn that the destination of the service request needs to be changed.

The computing device sends a change prompt message to a corresponding service request end, so that the service request end displays the change prompt message after receiving the change prompt message, fig. 6 is a display schematic diagram of the change prompt message provided by the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, a calculation query entry of a target price is included in the change prompt message, as ">" in fig. 6, and if a service requester needs to check how the target price is calculated, the result can be achieved by triggering ">". It should be noted that the target price, the replacement destination, the initial price of the original trip, the confirmation modification, and the cancel button are also included in the change prompting message. If the service requester chooses to confirm the modification, the computing device invoices at the target price.

When the service requester triggers ">", the service requester sends a query request for querying the pricing means to the computing device, the computing device obtains the computing means corresponding to the target price after receiving the query request, then the obtained computing means is returned to the service requester, and the service requester displays the computing means after receiving the computing means so as to be convenient for the service requester to view.

It should be noted that, the change prompting message in the above embodiment does not include the calculation mode corresponding to the target price, but sends the corresponding calculation mode to the service request end when the service request end requests to query the calculation mode.

Another embodiment may be that, after receiving a destination change request sent by a service request end, a computing device sends a change prompt message to the service request end, where the change prompt message includes not only a calculation query entry, such as ">" in fig. 6, but also a calculation manner, and only the calculation manner is not shown, it is understood that the calculation manner may be stored in a cache of the service request end, and when the service request party triggers ">, the calculation manner may be acquired from the cache and displayed, and communication with the computing device is not needed, so that the number of times of communication with the computing device is reduced.

Fig. 7 is a schematic flow chart of another method for calculating a service request price according to embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 7, the method takes a passenger submitting an order with a price through the network appointment software, and includes:

step 701: finishing charging; when the driver loads the passenger to the destination, the driver sends a request for ending the charging to the computing device through the driver terminal;

step 702: whether to change the destination online; when the charging is finished, whether the position of the driver terminal is matched with the initial destination in the order or not is judged, if so, the destination is not changed, if not, the destination is changed, at the moment, the computing device judges whether a destination changing request sent by the passenger terminal is received or not, if so, the passenger changes the destination online, and the step 708 is executed; otherwise, go to step 703;

step 703: whether the replacement destination is in a second preset area or not; judging whether the replacement destination is in a second preset area, wherein the second preset area can be constructed by taking the initial end point as the center of a circle and taking a second preset distance as a radius, and if the replacement destination is in the second preset area, executing step 708, and taking the initial price as a target price; otherwise, go to step 704;

step 704: whether the replacement destination is in a first preset area or not is changed; and judging whether the replacement destination is in the first preset area, wherein the construction of the first preset area is consistent with that in the embodiment, and the description is omitted here. If the replacement destination is within the first preset area, performing step 705, otherwise performing step 708;

step 705: the target distance is less than or equal to the initial distance; judging whether the target distance is smaller than or equal to the initial distance, if so, executing the step 706, and if not, executing the step 708; the obtaining mode of the target distance and the initial distance is the same as that of the embodiment;

step 706: the initial price is not less than the real-time price; judging whether the initial price is larger than or equal to the real-time price, if so, executing step 708, otherwise, executing step 707; wherein, the calculation mode of the initial price and the real-time price is consistent with the embodiment;

step 707: the initial price is a target price;

step 708: the real-time price is the target price.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calculating a service request price according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 8, the device includes: a first receiving module 801, a first calculating module 802, an obtaining module 803, and a second calculating module 804, wherein:

the first receiving module 801 is configured to receive a service request sent by a service request end, where the service request includes an origin and an initial destination; a first calculation module 802 for calculating an initial price from the origin and the initial destination; an obtaining module 803 is used for obtaining an alternate destination different from the initial destination; the second calculation module 804 is configured to determine a target price from the initial destination and the alternate destination, and replace the initial price with the target price.

On the basis of the foregoing embodiment, the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

On the basis of any of the above embodiments, the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

On the basis of any one of the above embodiments, the apparatus further includes:

the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

judging whether the target distance is greater than the initial distance;

the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

The modules may be connected or in communication with each other via a wired or wireless connection. The wired connection may include a metal cable, an optical cable, a hybrid cable, etc., or any combination thereof. The wireless connection may comprise a connection over a LAN, WAN, bluetooth, ZigBee, NFC, or the like, or any combination thereof. Two or more modules may be combined into a single module, and any one module may be divided into two or more units.

It can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the system and the apparatus described above may refer to corresponding processes in the method embodiments, and are not described in detail herein. In the embodiments provided in the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. The above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the modules is merely a logical division, and there may be other divisions in actual implementation, and for example, a plurality of modules or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or modules through some communication interfaces, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The modules described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as modules may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium executable by a processor. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a U disk, a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and the present invention shall be covered thereby. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method for calculating a price of a service request, comprising:

calculating an initial price from the origin and the initial destination;

obtaining an alternate destination different from the initial destination;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a target price from the initial destination and the alternate destination comprises:

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said constructing a first predetermined area containing said origin and said initial destination comprises:

4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining a target price from the initial destination and the alternate destination comprises:

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining the target price based on the target distance and the initial distance comprises:

judging whether the target distance is greater than the initial distance;

7. The method of claim 6, wherein determining the target price from the real-time price and the initial price comprises:

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a destination change request sent by the service request terminal;

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a query request triggering the computation query entry to send;

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a destination change request sent by the service request terminal;

12. An apparatus for calculating a service request price, comprising:

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the second computing module is specifically configured to:

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the second computing module is specifically configured to:

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the second computing module is specifically configured to:

16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising:

the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the second computing module is specifically configured to:

judging whether the target distance is greater than the initial distance;

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the second computing module is specifically configured to:

19. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

the second calculation module is specifically configured to:

20. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

21. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising:

22. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

23. An electronic device, comprising: a processor, a storage medium and a bus, the storage medium storing machine-readable instructions executable by the processor, the processor and the storage medium communicating via the bus when the electronic device is running, the processor executing the machine-readable instructions to perform the steps of the method for calculating a service request price according to any one of claims 1 to 11.

24. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that the computer-readable storage medium has stored thereon a computer program which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method of calculating a price for a service request according to any one of claims 1 to 11.

25. A service system comprising a service request side, a service provider side and a calculation means of a service request price according to any one of claims 12-22.