Optimizing multi-user requests for a network-based service

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network system, cause the network system to:

• receive, over a network from a requesting user device of a requesting user, a set of multi-user request data corresponding to a multi-user request for service for a set of users that includes a first user, the set of multi-user request data indicating a common start location for the set of users and identification information for at least the first user of the set of users;
• in response to receiving the set of multi-user request data from the requesting user device, transmit a first set of data to a first user device of the first user to cause the first user device to prompt the first user to input, via the first user device, a destination location for the first user;
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• identify a set of service providers to fulfill the multi-user request for service for the set of users, the set of service providers including a first service provider identified by the network system to provide service for the first user from the common start location of the set of users to the destination location for the first user.

A computer-implemented method of managing a network service, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:

• receiving, over a network from a requesting user device of a requesting user, a set of multi-user request data corresponding to a multi-user request for service for a set of users that includes a first user, the set of multi-user request data indicating a common start location for the set of users and identification information for at least the first user of the set of users;
• in response to receiving the set of multi-user request data from the requesting user device, transmitting a first set of data to a first user device of the first user to cause the first user device to prompt the first user to input, via the first user device, a destination location for the first user;
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• identifying a set of service providers to fulfill the multi-user request for service for the set of users, the set of service providers including a first service provider identified by the network system to provide service for the first user from the common start location of the set of users to the destination location for the first user.