User-configurable indication device for use with an on-demand transport service
AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTravis Kalanick, Shalin Amin
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Abstract
A system and method for configuring an indication device is described. An on-demand service system arranges a transport service for a user to be provided by a driver. The system determines whether the user has specified an output configuration for an indication device in an account of the user. In response to determining that the user has specified an output configuration for the indication device, the system identifies data corresponding to the output configuration and transmits the data to a driver device of the driver to enable the driver device to control the indication device of the driver based on the data.
Claims7
A method for configuring an indication device, the method being performed by one or more processors of a computing system and comprising:
- arranging a transport service for a user by (i) receiving a transport request from a user device operated by the user, and (ii) selecting a driver to provide the transport service from a plurality of drivers, each of the plurality of drivers being associated with a vehicle, a driver device, and an indication device;
- determining that the user has specified an output configuration for an indication device in an account of the user, the output configuration being configurable by the user;
- in response to determining that the user has specified the output configuration, identifying, from a memory resource accessible by the computing system, data corresponding to the output configuration specified by the user;
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- transmitting, over one or more networks, the data to at least one of the driver device or the indicator device associated with the selected driver to configure how the indication device of the driver operates when the driver is selected for the customer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.