Determining Location Information Using a Location Data Point Provided by a Computing Device

• US 20170030732A1
• Filed: 10/17/2016
• Published: 02/02/2017
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 9,778,063 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 implemented by one or more processors and comprising:

receiving indicia of a location of interest from a computing device;

selecting, according to a user preference associated with the computing device, a reverse geocoding source from a plurality of reverse geocoding sources;

selecting a mapping source from a plurality of mapping sources;

obtaining, from the selected reverse geocoding source, 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 receiving the indicia of the location of interest includes receiving a transport request from the computing device, and wherein the location of interest is a pickup location.