Travel coordination system implementing pick-up location optimization

US11551325B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Uber Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Brian Tolkin · San Francisco, US
• Qing Xu · Munich, DE
• Sami Aref · San Francisco, US
• Peter Ng · San Francisco, US
• Yuhki Yamashita · San Francisco, US
• Siddharth Kar · San Francisco, US
• Nikhil Goel · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 2019
• Grant date: Jan 10, 2023
• Expiry date: May 20, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/202
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computing system can implement pick-up location optimization by receiving trip requests and location data from computing devices of users and determining a specified region in which each requesting user is located. Each region can be associated with a plurality of eligible pickup locations. The computing system can score each of a plurality of eligible pickup locations based, at least in part, on (i) ETAs of vehicles to the pickup locations, and (ii) an amount of reduced time for utilizing each pickup location as opposed to the current location of the requesting user or a pick-up location specified by the requesting user. Based on the scoring, the computing system may then select (i) a trip pickup location to initiate the trip request, and (ii) a selected vehicle from the set of candidate vehicles to service the trip request.