Mapping Interface Customization Using Real-Time Trending Destinations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional on-demand transportation matching systems suffer from inaccurate location tracking, rigid functionality limitations, and inefficient integration of transportation request processes, leading to suboptimal user experiences and resource utilization.
Innovation Solution
A transportation matching system that determines and presents real-time trending destination locations based on transportation requests, utilizing a classification model to enhance accuracy and flexibility, integrating location tracking, digital mapping, and transportation matching into a single application.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional GPS-based location tracking systems are used, then location data can be obtained, but location accuracy deteriorates due to noisy GPS data and incorrect location indications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary classification model that processes raw GPS location data before it is used by the transportation matching system. This model classifies location data points as either valid or invalid based on learned patterns from historical data, thereby mediating between the noisy GPS source and the decision-making system. The intermediary filters out erroneous location indications while preserving accurate ones, resolving the contradiction between obtaining location data and ensuring its accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where location data accuracy is continuously improved through machine learning. The classification model is trained on historical location data and transportation request outcomes, using feedback from actual user behavior and transportation completions to refine its classification accuracy over time. This feedback loop enables the system to progressively improve location tracking reliability while maintaining continuous location data collection.
2Adaptability or versatility
If standalone transportation applications with specific functionalities are used, then transportation requesting and providing can be performed, but system flexibility deteriorates and additional hardware resources are required for other functionalities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal transportation matching system that consolidates multiple functionalities into a single platform. The system provides transportation requesting, provider matching, location tracking, route optimization, and additional services all through one application interface. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for users to install and manage multiple separate transportation-related applications, thereby improving system flexibility while reducing device complexity and hardware resource requirements.
3Reliability
If conventional location tracking systems with limited data sharing are used, then user privacy can be maintained, but location tracking accuracy deteriorates due to limited available location data
Solution Approach 1:
The classification model serves as an intermediary that enables accurate location tracking without requiring extensive data sharing. By processing and classifying individual user's location data in conjunction with aggregated anonymous patterns from the training dataset, the system achieves high accuracy while maintaining user privacy. The intermediary transforms the need from direct data sharing to pattern-based inference, resolving the contradiction between accuracy and privacy.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure covers computer-implemented methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that efficiently determine and present real-time (or near-real time) trending destination locations in a graphical user interface of a requester device based on transportation requests or other transportation data tracked for a geographic region. For example, the disclosed systems identify destination locations from within a geographic region of a particular requester by analyzing transportation requests received within a threshold time period of a requester's current reference time. The disclosed systems dynamically determine a set of trending destination locations from the destination locations based on such transportation requests to the destination locations within the threshold time period. Having determined a set of trending destination locations, the disclosed systems provide a selectable option for real-time (or near-real-time) trending destination locations relevant to the requester for display within a graphical user interface of the requester's device.