Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for matching transportation requestor devices with autonomous vehicles
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Application No.: US16686077Application Date: 2019-11-15
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Publication No.: US11232375B2Publication Date: 2022-01-25
- Inventor: Gavin Sebastian Hurley , Leighton Kamaile Jen , Jody Metzenbaum Kelman , Rex See Chun Lam , Jonathan Patrick O'Keefe , Oleg Vadim Panichev , Arkesh Jagdish Patel , John Robert Tighe , Adam Alexander Wolf
- Applicant: Lyft, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q10/02
- IPC: G06Q10/02 ; H04W4/021 ; H04W4/40 ; G06Q50/30

Abstract:
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying and notifying requestors that may be candidates for a particular autonomous vehicle in order to find those candidates that may be willing or able to relax their travel constraints to match the autonomous vehicle. A request flow may involve surfacing the potential option of matching to an autonomous vehicle before setting a specific destination. For example, the request flow may involve determining that an autonomous vehicle is sufficiently near an in-session potential requestor. Before the potential requestor enters a specific destination, the request flow may present the possibility of the potential requestor being matched with the autonomous vehicle. In some examples, the request flow may then provide available drop-off locations that are compatible with the autonomous vehicle for selection by the potential requestor. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210150420A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING TRANSPORTATION REQUESTOR DEVICES WITH AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2021-05-20
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