Uber Technologies, Inc.

Sophia Cui

Matthew Sweeney

Aditya Sarawgi

Theodore Russell Sumers

Miao Yu

Thi Duong Nguyen

Xingwen Zhang

Amos Barreto

Laszlo Korsos

A system and method for managing a network service is described. A system can provide a map interface for a user that includes a location pin. The system can detect a user input that sets the location pin at a selected pickup location on the map interface. In response to detecting the user input, the system can (i) determine an alternative pickup location based at least in part on historical information corresponding to clustered trip entries of the network service, and (ii) cause the map interface to dynamically and visually relocate the location pin to the alternative pickup location. The system may then receive a transport request from the mobile computing device of the user, and in response to receiving the transport request, select a transport provider to rendezvous with the user at the alternative pickup location.

Determining and providing predetermined location data points to service providers

A system and method for arranging a transport service is described. A system can receive a request for transport service from a user device. The request can include a requested pickup location data point. The system determines a predetermined location data point associated with the requested pickup location data point. The first predetermined location data point can be different from the requested pickup location data point. The system selects a driver to perform a transport service for the user based, at least in part, on the requested pickup location data point, and transmits the predetermined location data point to a driver device of the selected driver.

A tracking server receives GPS data from a location tracking device located in a vehicle. The GPS data describes a path that is representative of a pathway of the vehicle used to complete a trip from a starting location to a destination location. The tracking server identifies noisy GPS data included in the received GPS data and revises a portion of path corresponding to the noisy GPS data. The tracking server may update a map database to include one or more road segments associated with the revised portion of the path. Furthermore, the tracking server may calculate a fare for the trip based on the revised path.

Simplifying GPS data for map building and distance calculation

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