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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2019
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
John Badalamenti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua Inch, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Michael Sanchez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Theodore Russell Sumers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A network system, such as a transport management system, selects a pickup location for a trip and navigates a rider to the selected pickup location using augmented reality (AR). Responsive to receiving a trip request including an origin location, a pickup location selection module selects candidate pickup locations within a threshold distance of the rider client device. The pickup location selection module filters and ranks the candidates based on historical service data and location characteristics associated with the origin location as well as any history of pickups of the rider at the origin location and data from the trip request. The top-ranked candidate is selected as the pickup location and sent to the rider and driver client devices. An AR navigation module instructs the rider client device to visually augment a live video stream with computer-generated AR elements to navigate the rider from a current location to the pickup location.