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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2022
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Trent Baren, San Francisco, CA (US);
Luke George Greenwood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sachin Agarwal, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Harry Garcia, Campbell, CA (US);
Ethan Duncan Eyler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tzu-San Hung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Conte MacDonnell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a ride request from a user computing device associated with a user, wherein the ride request requests a user pick-up at a geographic location, determining one or more preferred items of the user, identifying, from a group of vehicles located in the geographic location, a vehicle that comprises an in-vehicle vending apparatus with an inventory that includes one or more of the preferred items of the user, and sending an instruction to a computing device of the vehicle for traveling to the geographic location for the user pick-up.