US 12,277,619 B2
Providing interfaces with scheduled transportation options to intelligently generate transportation groups
Adriel Samuel Frederick, Berkeley, CA (US); Simon Jack Jenkins, San Francisco, CA (US); Ryan Lok Yan Ma, San Francisco, CA (US); Keshav Puranmalka, Seattle, WA (US); Pratik Hirachand Shah, San Francisco, CA (US); Jessica Kelly T Talbert, San Francisco, CA (US); Rebecca Lindsay Blum, San Francisco, CA (US); and Mayank Gulati, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/020,443.
Prior Publication US 2022/0084155 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 50/40 (2024.01) [G06Q 10/1097 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
providing, for display to a requestor device, a first graphical user interface comprising a current transportation request option and a scheduled transportation request option to a destination;
determining a predicted volume of transportation requests during a future time period and a predicted volume of provider devices during the future time period based on historical data;
generating a number of timeslots and a duration of timeslots within a set of timeslots to display from the predicted volume of transportation requests and the predicted volume of provider devices;
in response to receiving a user selection of the scheduled transportation request option, providing for display a scheduled transportation request graphical user interface comprising a set of timeslots according to the number of timeslots and the duration of the timeslots, pick-up times corresponding to the set of timeslots, arrival deadlines at the destination corresponding to the set of timeslots, and transportation values corresponding to the set of timeslots; and
based on receiving a selection of a timeslot comprising a pick-up time, an arrival deadline, and a transportation value:
identifying a set of requestor devices associated with the timeslot for potential matching with the requestor device based on user interaction with the timeslot via the set of requestor devices according to the selection of the timeslot from the scheduled transportation request graphical user interface;
monitoring digital activity of the set of requestor devices associated with the timeslot;
generating, utilizing an efficiency transition model prior to a pick-up of the requestor device, a transportation group by matching an additional requestor device of the set of requestor devices associated with the timeslot to the requestor device based on the selection of the timeslot and the arrival deadline from the scheduled transportation request graphical user interface;
determining one or more transportation modifiers for the timeslots;
providing, for display to the additional requestor device, the scheduled transportation request graphical user interface comprising the set of timeslots and the one or more transportation modifiers; and
providing navigational instructions to a provider device to service a transportation request and transport the requestor device and the additional requestor device in the transportation group according to the selection of the timeslot from the scheduled transportation request graphical user interface such that the requestor device arrives at the destination by the arrival deadline.