Enabling proximity-aware visual identification

• US 9,891,879 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Amrhein, Dustin K., Gaur, Nitin, Johnson, Christopher D.
• Primary Examiner(s): EURICE, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US14/868,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20170090850A1
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1031 using a wireless connection, e.g. Bluetooth, infrared connections
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00

Abstract

A computer implemented method and system for proximity aware identification includes determining a symbol for identification on a first device. The first device is configured to detect a second device in a specified proximity to the first device. The method and system includes displaying the symbol on the first device, and detecting the second device within the specified proximity. The first device sends an image including the symbol to the second device, and the second device receiving the image and displaying the symbol. Indicating a location of the second device on a display of the first device depicting a relative location of the first device to the second device using the symbol, wherein the first device and the second devices include the symbol for identification by users of the first and second devices.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for proximity aware identification between multiple users, comprising:

determining a symbol for identification by a service provider, and providing the symbol to a first device;

detecting, by the service provider, a second device and determining a location of the second device in relation to the first device, the first device and the second device being mobile devices;

selecting the symbol from a group of symbols excluding symbols of the group which are in current use in a vicinity of a second device;

displaying the symbol on the first device;

detecting the second device within a specified proximity to the first device;

sending an image including the symbol from the first device or the service provider to the second device, receiving the image and displaying the symbol on the second device, whereby the same symbol is displayed on both the first and second devices; and

indicating a location of the second device on a display of the first device depicting a relative location of the first device to the second device using the symbol, indicating a location of the first device on a display of the second device depicting the relative location of the first device to the second device, the first device and the second device include the same symbol for verification of identification by the respective users of the first and second devices.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the symbol by a user of the first device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the symbol from a plurality of symbols by a user of the first device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first device is used by a ride sharing service and the second device is used by a passenger utilizing the ride sharing service, and the method further comprising:

selecting the symbol by the ride sharing service from a group of symbols excluding symbols of the group which are in current use in a vicinity of the passenger using the second device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of users using a plurality of respective devices.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

predictively analyzing data pertaining to the location of the second device and approximating an arrival location for a user of the first device respective to the location of the second device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

verifying an identify of a first user of the first device to a second user of the second device, and verifying an identify of the second user of the second device to the first user.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

sending a request from the first user from the first device to the second user of the second device; and

receiving a confirmation from the second user verifying an identity of the second user.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining coordinates of the first device via a proximity technique;

mapping a location of the first device on the display on the second device; and

adjusting the location based on movement of the first device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first device is used by a ride sharing service and the second device is used by a passenger utilizing the ride sharing service.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the symbol is chosen by the ride sharing service to exclude other vehicles of the ride sharing service in a vicinity of the passenger.

12. A computer-implemented method for proximity aware identification between multiple users, comprising:

determining a symbol for identification by a service provider, and providing the symbol to a first device;

detecting, by the service provider, a second device and determining a location of the second device in relation to the first device, the first device and the second device being mobile devices;

selecting the symbol from a group of symbols excluding symbols of the group which are in current use in a vicinity of a second device;

displaying the symbol on the first device;

detecting the second device within a specified proximity to the first device;

sending an image including the symbol from the first device to the second device, the second device receiving the image and displaying the symbol;

obtaining coordinates of the first device via a proximity technique;

indicating a location of the first device on a display of the second device depicting a relative location of the first device to the second device;

adjusting the location of the first device on the display of the second device based on movement of the first device;

indicating a location of the second device on a display of the first device depicting a relative location of the first device to the second device using the symbol, the first device and the second devices include the symbol for identification by users of the first and second devices such that the first device and the second device include the same symbol for verification of identification by the respective users of the first and second devices, the first device being used by a ride sharing service and the second device being used by a passenger utilizing the ride sharing service, and wherein the determining the symbol for identification includes the ride sharing service selecting the symbol from a group of symbols and excluding symbols of the group which are in current use in a vicinity of the passenger using the second device.

13. A computer program product for proximity aware identification between multiple users, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method, comprising:

determining a symbol for identification by a service provider, and providing the symbol to a first device;

detecting, by the service provider, a second device and determining a location of the second device in relation to the first device, the first device and the second device being mobile devices;

selecting the symbol from a group of symbols excluding symbols of the group which are in current use in a vicinity of a second device;

displaying the symbol on the first device;

detecting the second device within a specified proximity to the first device;

sending an image including the symbol from the first device or the service provider to the second device, receiving the image and displaying the symbol on the second device, whereby the same symbol is displayed on both the first and second devices; and

indicating a location of the second device on a display of the first device depicting a relative location of the first device to the second device using the symbol, indicating a location of the first device on a display of the second device depicting the relative location of the first device to the second device, the first device and the second device include the same symbol for verification of identification by the respective users of the first and second devices.

14. A computer system for proximity aware identification between multiple users, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors, one or more computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on one or more of the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions, comprising;

determining a symbol for identification by a service provider, and providing the symbol to a first device;

detecting, by the service provider, a second device and determining a location of the second device in relation to the first device, the first device and the second device being mobile devices;

selecting the symbol from a group of symbols excluding symbols of the group which are in current use in a vicinity of a second device;

displaying the symbol on the first device;

detecting the second device within the specified proximity;

sending an image including the symbol from the first device or the service provider to the second device, receiving the image and displaying the symbol on the second device, whereby the same symbol is displayed on both the first and second devices; and

indicating a location of the second device on a display of the first device depicting a relative location of the first device to the second device using the symbol, indicating a location of the first device on a display of the second device depicting the relative location of the first device to the second device, the first device and the second device include the same symbol for verification of identification by respective users of the first and second devices.