Initiating transportation requests

• US 10,349,223 B1
• Filed: 12/14/2017
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LYFT Incorporated
• Original Assignee: LYFT Incorporated
• Inventors: Yoo, Frank Taehyun, Haumann, Marc
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo, Chuong A
• Application Number:
  US15/842,202
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for generating and sending a request in response to a single user interaction. For example, in response to detecting that a single user interaction moves past a first threshold relative to a transportation request graphical user interface, the systems and methods described herein provides an estimate associated with the destination option. Then, in response to detecting that the same single user interaction with the transportation request graphical user interface moves past a second threshold relative to the graphical user interface, the systems and method generate and send a transportation request to be matched to a provider.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a requestor computing device to:

display a transportation request graphical user interface comprising a list of destination options;

detect a user interaction with a destination option in the list of destination options;

determine that the user interaction meets a first threshold, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold comprises at least one of determining that the user interaction moves past a first threshold amount of the transportation request graphical user interface, determining that the user interaction exceeds a first threshold amount of tough pressure, or determining that the user interaction exceeds a first threshold amount of hold-time;

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold, display information associated with the destination option;

determine that the user interaction meets a second threshold, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold comprises at least one of determining that the user interaction moves past a second threshold amount of the transportation request graphical user interface, determining that the user interaction exceeds a second threshold amount of touch pressure, or determining that the user interaction exceeds a second threshold amount of hold-time; and

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold, generate a transportation request associated with the destination option.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to display the list of destination options based on an analysis of a request history associated with the requestor computing device.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 2, further storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to identify the list of destination options based on a request matching pattern associated with the requestor computing device, wherein the request matching pattern comprises one or more entries, wherein each entry comprises a pickup time and location, and an associated destination location.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 3, wherein the list of destination options is organized based on an analysis of monitored activity information associated with the requestor computing device, wherein the monitored activity information comprises one or more of monitored request history information, monitored application activity information, or monitored social media activity information.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 4, wherein the list of destination options is further organized based on an analysis of a level of social media activity associated with an event occurring within a threshold amount of time of a current time and a threshold distance from a current location of the requestor computing device.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 5, further storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to receive a plurality of scored destination options, wherein displaying the transportation request graphical user interface comprising the list of destination options comprises displaying the transportation request graphical user interface comprising a list of one or more of the plurality of scored destination options with the highest scores.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 6, wherein a score associated with each of the plurality of scored destination options is based on one or more of a correlation between the scored destination option and the request matching pattern, a correlation between the scored destination option and the monitored activity information associated with the requestor computing device, or a level of social media activity associated with an event correlated with the scored destination option.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein:

detecting a user interaction with a destination option in the list of destination options comprises detecting that a horizontal swipe touch gesture with the destination option; and

determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold comprises determining that the horizontal swipe touch gesture moves beyond a first portion of the destination option.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 8, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold comprises determining that the horizontal swipe touch gesture moves beyond a second portion of the destination option.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, further storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to send the generated transportation request to a transportation matching system, the transportation request comprising a current location associated with the requestor computing device, and the destination option.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 10, further storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to, in response to sending the generated transportation request, receive a transportation request confirmation from the transportation matching system, wherein the transportation request confirmation comprises provider information, destination information, price information, trip time information, preference information, and transportation options.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, further storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to provide, in response to detecting a second user interaction with the list of destination options, a full display of the list including all available destination options in ranked order.

13. A requestor computing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to;

display a transportation request graphical user interface comprising a list of destination options based on an analysis of a request history associated with the requestor computing device;

detect a user interaction with a destination option in the list of destination options;

determine that the user interaction meets a first threshold, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold comprises at least one of determining that the user interaction moves past a first threshold amount of the transportation request graphical user interface, determining that the user interaction exceeds a first threshold amount of tough pressure, or determining that the user interaction exceeds a first threshold amount of hold-time;

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold, display information associated with transportation to the destination option;

determine that the user interaction meets a second threshold, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold comprises at least one of determining that the user interaction moves past a second threshold amount of the transportation request graphical user interface, determining that the user interaction exceeds a second threshold amount of touch pressure, or determining that the user interaction exceeds a second threshold amount of hold-time; and

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold, generate a transportation request associated with the destination option.

14. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 13, wherein the list of destination options is organized based on an analysis of monitored activity information associated with the requestor computing device, wherein the monitored activity information comprises one or more of monitored request history information, monitored application activity information, or monitored social media activity information.

15. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 14, wherein the list of destination options is further organized based on an analysis of a level of social media activity associated with an event occurring within a threshold amount of time of a current time and a threshold distance from a current location of the requestor computing device.

16. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 15, wherein:

detecting a user interaction with a destination option in the list of destination options comprises detecting that a horizontal swipe touch gesture with the destination option; and

determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold comprises determining that the horizontal swipe touch gesture moves beyond a first portion of the destination option.

17. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 16, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold comprises determining that the horizontal swipe touch gesture moves beyond a second portion of the destination option.

18. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 17, further storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the requestor computing device to send the generated transportation request to a transportation matching system, the transportation request comprising a current location associated with the requestor computing device, and the destination option.

19. A method comprising:

displaying, by a requestor computing device, a transportation request graphical user interface comprising a list of destination options based on an analysis of a request history associated with the requestor computing device;

detecting, by a requestor computing device, a user interaction with a destination option in the list of destination options;

determining, by a requestor computing device, that the user interaction meets a first threshold, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold comprises at least one of determining that the user interaction moves past a first threshold amount of the transportation request graphical user interface, determining that the user interaction exceeds a first threshold amount of tough pressure, or determining that the user interaction exceeds a first threshold amount of hold-time;

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the first threshold, displaying, by a requestor computing device, information associated with transportation to the destination option;

determining, by a requestor computing device, that the user interaction meets a second threshold, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold comprises at least one of determining that the user interaction moves past a second threshold amount of the transportation request graphical user interface, determining that the user interaction exceeds a second threshold amount of touch pressure, or determining that the user interaction exceeds a second threshold amount of hold-time; and

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold, generating, by a requestor computing device, a transportation request associated with the destination option.

20. The method as recited in claim 19,

further comprising identifying the list of destination options based on a request matching pattern associated with the requestor computing device, wherein the request matching pattern comprises one or more entries, wherein each entry comprises a pickup time and location and an associated destination location, and

wherein displaying the list of destination options is based on an analysis of a request history associated with the requestor computing device.