US 12,442,646 B1
Transportation route planning and generation
Charles Parker Spielman, San Francisco, CA (US); Mayank Gulati, San Francisco, CA (US); Karina Goot, San Francisco, CA (US); Priyanka Madhav Phatak, San Francisco, CA (US); Michael Francis Lodick, San Francisco, CA (US); and Jatin Chopra, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/348,735.
Application 18/348,735 is a continuation of application No. 17/648,148, filed on Jan. 17, 2022, granted, now 11,703,336.
Application 17/648,148 is a continuation of application No. 16/595,394, filed on Oct. 7, 2019, granted, now 11,226,208, issued on Jan. 18, 2022.
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3423 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); G01C 21/3484 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
determining, utilizing one or more server devices, a future request location for expected future requests from requestor mobile devices for a first modality of a plurality of modalities;
comparing, utilizing the one or more server devices, locations of provider devices associated with the first modality to the future request location to determine a device modality misalignment for the first modality;
receiving, via the one or more server devices from a requestor mobile device, a request; and
based on the device modality misalignment for the first modality:
selecting, via the one or more server devices, a first provider device associated with the first modality, from a pool of provider devices associated with the plurality of modalities, based on comparing a location of the first provider device with the future request location;
assigning the first provider device to a transportation segment for the request from the requestor mobile device; and
providing, for display via a user interface of the requestor mobile device, the transportation segment and an indicator for the first provider device.