US 12,093,362 B2
Third-party vehicle operator sign-in
Mark Yen, San Francisco, CA (US); Joseph Maliksi, Pittsburgh, PA (US); Roman Kuzmenko, San Jose, CA (US); Andrii Iasynetskyi, Redmond, WA (US); and Matthew Charles Ellis Wood, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Assigned to Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/161,502.
Application 18/161,502 is a continuation of application No. 16/660,379, filed on Oct. 22, 2019, granted, now 11,580,207.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/844,051, filed on May 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0177134 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 12/06 (2021.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G06F 21/35 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/35 (2013.01) [B60W 40/08 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0809 (2013.01); B60W 50/00 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0065 (2013.01); G01C 21/3438 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method to authenticate a vehicle operator for an autonomous vehicle on a vehicle service platform, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a computing system including one or more computing devices, authentication request data indicative of an authentication request, the authentication request data including at least an operator identifier associated with the vehicle operator and a vehicle identifier associated with the autonomous vehicle;
using, by the computing system, the vehicle identifier to determine a security tier associated with the autonomous vehicle;
determining, by the computing system, an authentication procedure for the autonomous vehicle, the determining of the authentication procedure being based at least in part on the security tier associated with the autonomous vehicle;
based at least in part on the authentication procedure, providing, by the computing system, a service code associated with the authentication request to the autonomous vehicle associated with the vehicle identifier;
obtaining from a user device associated with the operator identifier, by the computing system in response to providing the service code to the autonomous vehicle, operator data associated with the authentication request, the operator data including the service code;
determining, by the computing system, an authentication result associated with the authentication request based at least in part on the service code, and the operator data; and
providing, by the computing system, the authentication result to the user device.