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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2017
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Trent Baren, San Francisco, CA (US);
Luke George Greenwood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sachin Agarwal, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Harry Garcia, Campbell, CA (US);
Ethan Duncan Eyler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tzu-San Hung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Conte MacDonnell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lyft Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a user computing device associated with a user for one or more items from an in-vehicle vending apparatus during a ride. The method also includes sending information associated with the user to start a vending session using the in-vehicle vending apparatus. The method also includes receiving an indication that the user associated with the user computer device accessed the in-vehicle vending apparatus. The method also includes determining that the user associated with the user computing device is the only user associated with the ride, determining that the user associated with the user computing device is one of a plurality of users associated with the ride, or determining that the user associated with the user computing device is associated with the in-vehicle vending apparatus.