Provider Device Balance Graphs for Transportation Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional transportation matching systems face inaccuracies and inefficiencies in communicating demand fluctuations to provider devices, leading to imbalances and increased computational overhead, which negatively impact user experience and retention.
Innovation Solution
The system generates provider device balance graphs reflecting device utilization ratios between provider and requester devices, using market balance measures, probability distributions, and scaling models to provide accurate and intuitive visual representations, avoiding distortions from demand spikes and improving scheduling efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional systems communicate linear demand fluctuations to provider devices, then provider devices receive information about demand changes, but the communication becomes inaccurate and misleading when there are large spikes in demand, causing provider devices to over-commit during spike periods and under-commit at other periods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the demand communication parameter from raw linear demand values to a normalized balance metric that represents the ratio of demand to supply. This parameter transformation eliminates the distortion caused by large demand spikes, as the normalized metric keeps values within a predictable range (e.g., 0 to 1 or similar bounds), allowing provider devices to make reliable scheduling decisions without over-committing during spike periods.
2Ease of operation
If conventional systems provide digital communications about demand fluctuations, then provider devices can select times for providing transportation services, but the systems experience requester device imbalances or provider device imbalances leading to high wait times and excessive computational overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system continuously monitors the balance between demand and supply, communicates this balance metric to provider devices, and observes how providers adjust their availability. This feedback loop enables the system to dynamically optimize provider scheduling, reducing imbalances and wait times while maintaining ease of operation for provider devices.
3Loss of information
If conventional systems communicate demand spikes to provider devices, then provider devices receive information about high demand periods, but this leads to excessive levels of transportation devices relative to demand at other times, creating provider device imbalances
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the communication parameter from absolute demand quantities to a normalized balance ratio that reflects the relationship between demand and supply. This transformation allows provider devices to understand when additional providers are actually needed versus when demand is already being met, preventing excessive provider availability during low-demand periods while ensuring adequate coverage during high-demand periods.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and utilizing provider device balance graphs reflecting device utilization ratio between provider devices and requester devices. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems determine and utilize probabilities to generate and provide provider device balance graphs based on probability distributions for device utilization ratios. The disclosed systems can apply various scaling models to address seasonality, special events, and/or differences between regions. The disclosed systems can also apply thresholds to generate device incentive graphs that more efficiently deploy provider devices across a transportation matching system.