Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Facilitating rider pick-up for a transport service
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Application No.: US14820382Application Date: 2015-08-06
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Publication No.: US10215574B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Benjamin Le Cun , John David West
- Applicant: Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Mahamedi IP Law LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/01
- IPC: G06F3/01 ; G01C21/34 ; G01C21/36 ; G06F9/451 ; G06Q50/30 ; G06F3/0484

Abstract:
A transport facilitation system is disclosed that can facilitate pick-ups in connection with a transportation arrangement service. The transport facilitation system can initially receive a pick-up request from a user device of a requesting user and select a driver to service the pick-up request. The transport facilitation system can transmit an invitation to service the pick-up request to a driver device of the driver and receive a confirmation to service the pick-up request from the driver device. Thereafter the transport facilitation system can, detect, from the user device, a sensor pattern corresponding to a hailing action performed by the requesting user using the user device. In response to detecting the sensor pattern, the transport facilitation system can initiate a selected display pattern on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the user device to enable the driver to identify the requesting user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170038948A1 FACILITATING RIDER PICK-UP FOR A TRANSPORT SERVICE Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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