Determining location information using a location data point provided by a computing device

• US 9,482,549 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2015
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Holden, Paul-Phillip, Sweeney, Matthew, Grosser, Jeremy
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuan A
• Application Number:
  US14/656,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20150185041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A system and method for determining location information using a location data point provided by a computing device is described. A location data point is received by a system from a client computing device. The system determines whether the location data point is within a predefined region from a plurality of predefined regions configured by a user of the system. If the location data point is within a predefined region, location information corresponding to the predefined region is transmitted to the client device. If the location data point is not within a predefined region, one or more third-party reverse geocoding services can be used that translates the location data point to a street address.

Claims

1. A method for providing a transport service, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:

receiving coordinates for a location of interest from a mobile computing device of a user;

selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources from a plurality of reverse geocoding sources, wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on a preference of the user;

selecting a mapping source from a plurality of mapping sources;

obtaining, from the selected one or more reverse geocoding sources, geographic information about a region of the location of interest;

obtaining, from the selected mapping source, mapping information for the region of the location of interest; and

determining content for a map interface based on the geographic information and the mapping information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on a determination of reverse geocoding sources from the plurality of reverse geocoding sources that are available at a location of the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on a determination of reverse geocoding sources from the plurality of reverse geocoding sources that are available at the location of interest.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the preference is a language preference.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on a determination of reverse geocoding sources from the plurality of reverse geocoding sources that are available at a location of the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on a determination of geocoding sources from the plurality of reverse geocoding sources that are available at the location of interest.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving coordinates for the location of interest includes receiving a transport request from the user, wherein the location of interest corresponds to a pickup location.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the content to the mobile computing device of the user across one or more networks.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining content for the map interface includes combining geographic information from multiple reverse geocoding sources in the plurality of reverse geocoding sources as information for the map interface.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the coordinates include a latitude and a longitude as determined from a global positioning system component of the mobile computing device of the user.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the content to the mobile computing device of the user in response to the user making a transport request in which at least one of a pickup location or a drop-off location is the location of interest.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising providing the content to a computing device of a driver that is selected to provide transport for the transport request.

13. A method for providing a transport service, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:

receiving coordinates for a location of interest from a mobile computing device of a user;

determining, from information stored on the mobile computing device of the user, a language preference of the user;

selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources from a plurality of reverse geocoding sources, wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on the determined language preference of the user;

selecting a mapping source from a plurality of mapping sources;

obtaining, from the selected one or more reverse geocoding sources, geographic information about a region of the location of interest;

obtaining, from the selected mapping source, mapping information for the region of the location of interest; and

determining content for a main interface based on the geographic information and the mapping information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving coordinates for the location of interest includes receiving a transport request from the user, wherein the location of interest corresponds to a pickup location.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising communicating the content to the mobile computing device of the user across one or more networks.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein determining content for the map interface includes combining geographic information from multiple reverse geocoding sources in the plurality of reverse geocoding sources as information for the map interface.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the coordinates include a latitude and a longitude as determined from a global positioning system component of the mobile computing device of the user.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising providing the content to the mobile computing device of the user in response to the user making a transport request in which at least one of a pickup location or a drop-off location is the location of interest.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising providing the content to a computing device of a driver that is selected to provide transport for the transport request.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein receiving the coordinates for the location of interest includes receiving a transport request from the user in which a pickup or drop-off location is the location of interest, and wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on profile information of a driver that is selected to provide transport for the transport request.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising providing the content to the map interface of a mobile computing device of the driver.

22. A method for providing a transport service, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:

receiving coordinates for a location of interest from a mobile computing device of a user;

selecting one or more geocoding sources from a plurality of reverse geocoding sources;

selecting a mapping source from a plurality of mapping sources;

obtaining, from the selected one or more reverse geocoding sources, geographic information about a region of the location of interest;

obtaining, from the selected mapping source, mapping information for the region of the location of interest; and

determining content for a map interface based on the geographic information and the mapping information; and

wherein determining content for the map interface includes combining geographic information from multiple reverse geocoding sources in the plurality of reverse geocoding sources as information for the map interface.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein receiving coordinates for the location of interest includes receiving a transport request from the user, wherein the location of interest corresponds to a pickup location.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising communicating the content to the mobile computing device of the user across one or more networks.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein determining content for the map interface includes combining geographic information from multiple reverse geocoding sources in the plurality of reverse geocoding sources as information for the map interface.

26. The method of claim 22, wherein the coordinates include a latitude and a longitude as determined from a global positioning system component of the mobile computing device of the user.

27. The method of claim 22, further comprising providing the content to the mobile computing device of the user in response to the user making a transport request in which at least one of a pickup location or a drop-off location is the location of interest.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising providing the content to a computing device of a driver that is selected to provide transport for the transport request.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein receiving the coordinates for the location of interest includes receiving a transport request from the user in which a pickup or drop-off location is the location of interest, and wherein selecting one or more reverse geocoding sources is based at least in part on profile information of a driver that is selected to provide transport for the transport request.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising providing the content to the map interface of a mobile computing device of the driver.