The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2019
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Parker Spielman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mayank Gulati, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karina Goot, San Francisco, CA (US);
Priyanka Madhav Phatak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Francis Lodick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jatin Chopra, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Louis Bergman Quaid, New York, NY (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for analyzing, ranking, and presenting multi-modality transportation proposals are presented. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a request for transportation and generating proposals that include routes for transportation an origin location and a destination location of the request. The proposals each include segment(s) corresponding to a portion of a route and at least one modality identifying a type of transportation for the segment(s). Proposal scores may then be calculated for each of the proposals. Proposal scores for a proposal may be calculated based on a disutility measure of the proposal that measures a predicted inconvenience for a user following the route identified by the proposal. The proposals may be ranked based on the proposal scores and the ranking may be transmitted to a mobile device for display on the mobile device.