Initiating transportation requests

• US 10,708,733 B1
• Filed: 07/08/2019
• Issued: 07/07/2020
• 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:
  US16/505,540
• Time in Patent Office: 365 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 threshold, wherein determining that the user interaction meets the threshold comprises at least one of determining that the user interaction moves past a threshold position within the transportation request graphical user interface, determining that the user interaction exceeds a threshold amount of touch pressure, or determining that the user interaction exceeds a threshold amount of hold-time; and

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

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 completed transportation entries, wherein each completed transportation entry comprises a pickup time and location, and an associated destination location.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as recited in claim 3, 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, and

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 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.

5. 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, in response to determining that the user interaction meets the threshold, generate the information associated with the transportation request by:

determining an estimated cost for the transportation request in association with the destination option with which the user interaction was detected; and

display the estimated cost for the transportation request adjacent to the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

6. 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,

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the threshold, generate the information associated with the transportation request by analyzing a request history associated with the requestor computing device to determine a predicted transportation classification associated with the requestor computing device;

and

display the predicted transportation classification associated with the requestor computing device adjacent to the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

7. 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:

determine that the user interaction meets a second threshold; and

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold, generate and send a transportation request comprising the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

8. 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;

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

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

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

9. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 8, further storing instructions that cause the requestor computing device to display the transportation request graphical user interface comprising the list of destination options based on an analysis of a request history associated with the requestor computing device.

10. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 9, further storing instructions that 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 completed transportation entries, wherein each completed transportation entry comprises a pickup time and location, and an associated destination location.

11. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 10, further storing instructions that 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, and

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 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.

12. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 8, further storing instructions that cause the requestor computing device to,

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the threshold, generate the information associated with the transportation request by determining an estimated cost for the transportation request in association with the destination option with which the user interaction was detected;

and

display the estimated cost for the transportation request adjacent to the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

13. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 8, further storing instructions that cause the requestor computing device to, in response to determining that the user interaction meets the threshold, generate the information associated with the transportation request by:

analyzing a request history associated with the requestor computing device to determine a predicted transportation classification associated with the requestor computing device; and

display the predicted transportation classification associated with the requestor computing device adjacent to the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

14. The requestor computing device as recited in claim 8, further storing instructions that cause the requestor computing device to:

determine that the user interaction meets a second threshold; and

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold, generate and send a transportation request comprising the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

15. A method comprising:

displaying, by a requestor computing device, a transportation request graphical user interface comprising a list of destination options;

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

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

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

16. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising displaying the list of destination options based on an analysis of a request history associated with the requestor computing device.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, 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 completed transportation entries, wherein each completed transportation entry comprises a pickup time and location, and an associated destination location.

18. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising, in response to determining that the user interaction meets the threshold, generating the information associated with the transportation request by:

determining an estimated cost for the transportation request in association with the destination option with which the user interaction was detected; and

displaying the estimated cost for the transportation request adjacent to the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

19. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising, in response to determining that the user interaction meets the threshold,

generating the information associated with the transportation request by analyzing a request history associated with the requestor computing device to determine a predicted transportation classification associated with the requestor computing device;

and

displaying the predicted transportation classification associated with the requestor computing device adjacent to the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.

20. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising:

determining that the user interaction meets a second threshold; and

in response to determining that the user interaction meets the second threshold, generating and sending a transportation request comprising the destination option with which the user interaction was detected.