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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2017
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Chinmoy Dutta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam Greenhall, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Sholley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jimmy Young, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jatin Chopra, San Francisco, CA (US);
LYFT, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates assigning ride requests to providers based on the probability that a provider will accept the request. For example, one or more embodiments identify a first provider to assign the ride request. The system then generates a probability of acceptance for that provider. The system then determines an estimated time-to-arrival for the first provider and an alternate estimated time-to-arrival associated with a re-assigned provider. Based on the acceptance probability, the estimated time-to-arrival, and the alternate estimated time-to-arrival, the system then determines an expected time-to-arrival associated with the first provider. The system assigns ride requests to providers based on optimizing the expected time-to-arrival across multiple potential providers for a ride request.