Uber Technologies, Inc.

Uatc, LLC

Andrii Iasynetskyi

Mark Yen

Matthew Charles Ellis Wood

Roman Kuzmenko

Meenakshi Vohra

Matthew James Way

Joseph Maliksi

Brent Justin Goldman

David George Butler

Leigh Hagestad

Janita Chalam

Systems and methods to authenticate a vehicle operator for an autonomous vehicle on a vehicle service platform are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining authentication request data indicative of an authentication request, the authentication request data including at least an operator identifier associated with the vehicle operator and a vehicle identifier associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes providing a service code associated with the authentication request to the autonomous vehicle. The method includes obtaining from a user device in response to providing the service code to the autonomous vehicle, operator data associated with the authentication request, the operator data including the service code. The method includes determining an authentication result associated with the authentication request based at least in part on the service code and the operator data. The method includes providing the authentication result to the user device.

Third-party vehicle operator sign-in

Systems and methods are directed to improvements for secure communications between client systems and a vehicle integration platform associated with a service provider entity. In one example, a communication infrastructure is provided which includes a vehicle integration platform that includes a plurality of application programming interfaces configured to facilitate communication among clients. The communication infrastructure includes a security integration system which is configured to receive and validate a client certificate forwarded to the vehicle integration platform from a client and determine an identity of the client and an origin of a request associated with the client certificate. The security integration system is configured to generate a certificate signing request associated with the client certificate based in part on the identity of the client and obtain an operational certificate for the client based in part on the certificate signing request to establish ability for client authentication within the vehicle integration platform.

Vehicle integration platform (VIP) security integration

Systems and methods for limiting autonomous vehicle requests are provided. The method includes obtaining data indicative of a request for access to a software service for facilitating one or more transportation services. The method can include granting access to the software service based on a rate limit associated with the request and a request history. The rate limit can be associated with any combination of a vehicle provider determined based on the request, the software service for which access is requested, or current data. The rate limit can define a threshold number of requests over a period of time. The method can include determining the routing action for the request based on the rate limit and a request history associated the vehicle provider, the software service, or current data. The routing action can include granting access if the request history is less than the threshold number of requests.

Systems and methods for limiting autonomous vehicle requests

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods associated with a communication infrastructure. The communication infrastructure includes a vehicle integration platform that includes a plurality of application programming interfaces configured to facilitate message communication among clients. The communication infrastructure includes a registration authority system configured to receive certificate signing requests from the clients and to generate client-specific credentials for establishing a predetermined time period of ability for client authentication within the vehicle integration platform. The communication infrastructure includes a certificate authority system configured to normalize requests received from the clients via the registration authority system such that the client-specific credentials are established according to an approved hierarchy of licensing certificates. The communication infrastructure includes a security library accessible by each of the clients and by components of the vehicle integration platform. The security library is configured to provide implementation logic for signing messages and implementation logic for validating messages.

Vehicle integration platform (VIP) security

Systems and methods are directed to facilitating secure, bidirectional communications between autonomous vehicles associated with a plurality of entities and a provider infrastructure. In one example, a computer-implemented method for facilitating communications with a vehicle includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a communication associated with an autonomous vehicle via an application programming interface platform, wherein the application programming interface platform comprises a plurality of vehicle services interfaces. The method further includes determining, by the computing system, an entity-type of the autonomous vehicle. The method further includes determining, by the computing system, a vehicle services interface of the plurality of vehicle services interfaces based at least in part on the communication associated with the autonomous vehicle and the entity-type. The method further includes providing, by the computing system, the communication associated with the autonomous vehicle to a system client via the vehicle services interface.

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Millbrae, CA, United States of America

Andrii Iasynetskyi