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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Tolkin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Qing Xu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sami Aref, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter Ng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yuhki Yamashita, San Francisco, CA (US);
Siddharth Kar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikhil Goel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A computing system can implement pick-up location optimization by receiving trip requests and location data from computing devices of users and determining a specified region in which each requesting user is located. Each region can be associated with a plurality of eligible pickup locations. The computing system can score each of a plurality of eligible pickup locations based, at least in part, on (i) ETAs of vehicles to the pickup locations, and (ii) an amount of reduced time for utilizing each pickup location as opposed to the current location of the requesting user or a pick-up location specified by the requesting user. Based on the scoring, the computing system may then select (i) a trip pickup location to initiate the trip request, and (ii) a selected vehicle from the set of candidate vehicles to service the trip request.