US 12,219,427 B2
Elevation-aware hotspot generation system
Michael Charles Albada, San Francisco, CA (US); Vivek Sankaravadivel, Fremont, CA (US); and Saebra Lynn Waterstraut, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/446,903.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/706,723, filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0078579 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/024 (2018.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 4/024 (2018.02) [G06F 18/22 (2023.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
detecting, by a hardware processor of a network system, an initiation of a request for a transportation service at a client device of a user;
receiving an indication of a location of the client device and corresponding signal strengths of nearby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth access points observed by the client device;
determining a telematics vector associated with the client device based on the signal strengths of nearby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth access points;
based on the location of the client device and the telematics vector associated with the client device, identifying one or more top ranked elevation-aware hotspots; and
causing, by the network system on a user interface on the client device of the user, presentation of a pickup point recommendation that includes the one or more top ranked elevation-aware hotspots.