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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2018
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abhinav Amrut Vora, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hao Yu Liu, Union City, CA (US);
Benjamin Han, San Francisco, CA (US);
Julia Yu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Le Guan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xiaoyuan Xu, San Mateo, CA (US);
Mayank Gulati, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Parker Spielman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chirag Chhagan Chheda, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Chouinard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include dynamically selecting transportation options to present to a transportation requestor device based on current transportation network conditions and transportation requestor device history. In some embodiments, transportation network may have many different ways of arranging a transportation requestor's trip, such as private rides, shared rides, immediate rides, and delayed rides. In some examples, the requestor's choice of transportation option may have an impact on the transportation network. In anticipation of or in response to a transportation request, the method may determine which transportation options will better benefit the transportation network and determine which transportation options to display to the requestor and/or the prominence with which the transportation products are displayed. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.