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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2017
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Anson Chu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brandon Iles, Milpitas, CA (US);
Dinesh Ramasamy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Juthika Kiran Dabholkar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Upamanyu Madhow, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
William J. Salisbury, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brent Hamby, Oakland, CA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A network system uses Wi-Fi signals or other types of short-range transmissions to determine pickup locations for users receiving services provided via the network system. The network system builds a database of search records mapping pickup locations to signatures of short-range transmission detected by users' client devices when they searched for the pickup locations. By comparing a signature detected by a given user's client device to the signatures in the database, the network system can check for similarities between the short-range transmissions. Responsive to finding a match, the network system predicts that the given user is likely to select a similar pickup location as other users whose client devices detected the signatures corresponding to the match. Accordingly, by leveraging the database, the network system can predict pickup locations without requiring the given user to input a search for a pickup location.