US 12,217,288 B2
Dynamically adjusting transportation provider pool size
Helen Wai-Quen Bentley, San Francisco, CA (US); Aidan Church, San Francisco, CA (US); John Torres Fremlin, New York, NY (US); Matthew Lawrence Green, San Francisco, CA (US); Mayank Gulati, San Francisco, CA (US); Yilei Li, Redwood City, CA (US); Demitri Nava, New York, NY (US); Mengqi Niu, San Francisco, CA (US); Daniel Allen Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US); Garrett van Ryzin, Brooklyn, NY (US); Rachel Marie Wasko, San Francisco, CA (US); and Shashi Kant Sharma, Redwood City, CA (US)
Assigned to Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/193,242.
Application 18/193,242 is a continuation of application No. 16/672,234, filed on Nov. 1, 2019, granted, now 11,645,685.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/867,174, filed on Jun. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0289857 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06Q 10/047 (2023.01); G06Q 10/063 (2023.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0284 (2013.01) [G01C 21/343 (2013.01); G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); G01C 21/3617 (2013.01); G06F 9/4418 (2013.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/047 (2013.01); G06Q 10/063 (2013.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G08G 1/202 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
determining, from a plurality of transportation provider devices or a plurality of requester computing devices of a dynamic transportation matching system, a set of conditions for a first geographic area;
generating, based on the set of conditions, a provider efficiency parameter associated with the dynamic transportation matching system for the first geographic area;
receiving, from a transportation provider device within the first geographic area, a request to switch a provider device application of the transportation provider device from an offline mode to an online mode for the dynamic transportation matching system;
based on the provider efficiency parameter generated from the set of conditions associated with the first geographic area, preventing the provider device application of the transportation provider device from switching from the offline mode to the online mode within the first geographic area; and
providing, for display by the transportation provider device, an indication that the transportation provider device cannot switch to the online mode and a map interface indicating a second geographic area where the transportation provider device can switch the provider device application from the offline mode to the online mode, wherein the second geographic area is different from the first geographic area.