User-configurable indication device for use with an on-demand transport service
AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTravis Kalanick, Shalin Amin
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Abstract
An indication device for a vehicle of a service provider associated with a transport service includes an output device and a communication interface for establishing a communication link with a provider device of the service provider. The communication interface can receive, via the communication link, a set of output configuration data associated with a request for the transport service to cause the output device to transition from outputting a default configuration to outputting the output configuration based on a determined state of the service provider or the transport service.
Claims20
A method performed by an indication device for a vehicle of a service provider who is associated with a transport service, comprising:
- receiving, over a communication link from a provider device of the service provider, a set of configuration data indicating an output configuration associated with a request for the transport service;
- and
- controlling an output device of the indication device based on receiving the set of configuration data such that the output device of the indication device is transitioned from outputting a default configuration to outputting the output configuration based on a determined state of the service provider or the transport service.
An indication device for a vehicle of a service provider associated with a transport service, the indication device comprising:
- an output device that is externally visible from the vehicle of the service provider;
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- a communication interface for establishing a communication link with a provider device of the service provider to receive, from the provider device over the communication link, a set of output configuration data indicating an output configuration associated with a request for the transport service to cause the output device of the indication device to transition from outputting a default configuration to outputting the output configuration based on a determined state of the service provider or the transport service.
An indication system for a transport service, the indication system comprising:
- a computing system configured to:
- receive, over a network from a user device of a requesting user, a request for the transport service;
- identify a service provider in response to receiving the request;
- determine a state of identified service provider or the transport service;
- transmit, to a provider device of the identified service provider,
- configuration data indicating an output configuration for the request;
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- an indication device having an output device and a communication interface for establishing a communication link with the provider device to receive, from the provider device, a first set of data via the communication link to cause the output device of the indication device to transition from outputting a default configuration to outputting the output configuration based on the determined state of the identified service provider or the transport service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.