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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2018
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Navya Rehani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas McConnell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A computing system can implement an on-demand transport service by determining utilization conditions for a plurality of sub-regions of a geographic region. The utilization condition for each sub-region can correspond to a number of available drivers within the sub-region as compared to a number of transport requests comprising pickup locations within the sub-region. Based on the utilization condition for a given sub-region exceeding the predetermined utilization threshold, the computing system can transmit data to the computing devices of a plurality of drivers to display a geofence feature, defined by three or more location data points, that encompasses the given sub-region, and a notification indicating that the given sub-region has a utilization condition that exceeds the predetermined utilization threshold.