US 11,861,755 B2
Customer signaling location beacon
Ilya Polyakov, San Francisco, CA (US); Albert Poon, San Francisco, CA (US); and Rajat Shroff, Redwood Shores, CA (US)
Assigned to DoorDash, Inc.
Filed by DoorDash, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/734,793.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/182,478, filed on Apr. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0351321 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/32 (2012.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G06Q 10/083 (2023.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 50/32 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/083 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/026 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining, by a processor, a physical location for transferring a delivery;
identifying, by the processor, a physical beacon associated with the physical location;
based on a geofence of the physical location being crossed by a device of a delivery person, detecting, by the physical beacon, an interaction between the physical beacon and the delivery person, the interaction occurring based on the physical beacon and the device of the delivery person being in physical proximity to each other; and
upon the detecting the interaction when the geofence is crossed, facilitating, by the physical beacon, transmission of a sensory signal,
wherein the physical beacon is included in a plurality of physical beacons that generate a plurality of sensory signals along a predetermined path toward the physical location and provide direction information toward the physical location.