US 11,868,928 B2
On-demand transport selection process facilitating third-party autonomous vehicles
Brent Justin Goldman, San Francisco, CA (US); Neil Stegall, Pittsburg, CA (US); and Leigh Gray Hagestad, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/817,238.
Application 17/817,238 is a continuation of application No. 16/665,650, filed on Oct. 28, 2019, granted, now 11,423,340.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/751,921, filed on Oct. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0057907 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/28 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01) [G01C 21/28 (2013.01); G01C 21/3453 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0284 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transport service entity computing system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memory resources storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to execute operations comprising:
receiving a transport request from a computing device associated with a requesting user;
determining a subset of transport providers to service the transport request, the subset of the transport providers comprising a first autonomous vehicle (AV) associated with a third-party computing system;
transmitting a first capability query describing the transport request to the third-party computing system;
receiving a response from the third-party computing system, the response indicating a capability of the first AV to respond to the transport request;
selecting the first AV to service the transport request based at least in part on the response from the third-party computing system; and
causing the first AV to begin servicing the transport request.