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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 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 initiating a vending session using an in-vehicle vending apparatus to provide a user access to one or more items, the vending session being initiated by determining that the user is associated with a ride. The method also includes determining that the vending session has ended, which may be determined by determining that the in-vehicle vending apparatus is closed, and determining the one or more items that were taken by the user. The method also includes identifying one or more items taken from the in-vehicle vending apparatus during the vending session based on sensor data from the in-vehicle apparatus. The method also includes sending a confirmation of the one or more items taken to the user.