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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2016
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Taggart Matthiesen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sergey Shlykovich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ethan Eyler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sebastian Brannstrom, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Murphy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for improving the accuracy of location information for requestor and provider devices in an dynamic transportation matching system using local communications between computing devices. For example, embodiments allow a provider computing device to identify, pair, and/or communicate with a requestor computing device upon arrival near a request location for a ride matching request. The provider computing device may use signal strength measurements associated with signals received from the requestor computing device to identify a proximity to the requestor computing device and/or to triangulate an accurate location of the requestor computing device. Additionally, the provider computing device may use a combination of the location reported by the ride matching system and the signal strength of the paired connection to identify the location of the requestor computing device.