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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Shift Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Joel Washington, San Francisco, CA (US);
Irakly George Arison Areshidze, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tobias Russell, Alexandria, VA (US);
Minneola Ingersoll, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christian Michael Ohler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hanna Klots Benbarak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michal Sobieski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alejandro Cesar Ayestaran, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pablo Ignacio Diaz Rozic, San Francisco, CA (US);
Craig John Isakow, Oakland, CA (US);
Yu Fei Liu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Scott Paul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Alex Gold, San Mateo, CA (US);
Saud Khan, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Jonathan Vincent, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shift Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for on demand test drives that can include managing a set of vehicle and worker resources in a resource management system; monitoring user browsing patterns of a customer on an online vehicle marketplace; receiving a test drive request from the customer, the request specifying a requested vehicle and test drive location; retrieving test drive availability options from the resource management system; setting a test drive appointment for a selected test drive availability option; coordinating worker and vehicle transport to a scheduled location of the test drive appointment; and delivering vehicle information during the test drive appointment.