Patents by Inventor Austin Broyles

Austin Broyles has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11946756
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining matches of requestors and providers based on a dynamic provider eligibility model. For example, a request matching model uses an estimated arrival time for a requestor and estimated travel times for available providers to a pickup location to determine eligible providers for matching to a ride request. The matching model determines those providers that are far enough away from the request location to allow the requestor time to arrive at the pickup location without matching providers that are too far away, causing delay for the requestor and lowering the efficiency of the system by taking provider system resources from other service areas and increasing provider downtime upon matching. Additionally, embodiments provide more efficient matching processing leading to fewer canceled matched requests, fewer requests for a successful match, and fewer system resources necessary to meet requestor demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin Broyles, Robert Anthony Farmer, Krishna Kumar Selvam
  • Patent number: 11940284
    Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
  • Publication number: 20230075585
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining matches of requestors and providers based on a dynamic provider eligibility model. For example, a request matching model uses an estimated arrival time for a requestor and estimated travel times for available providers to a pickup location to determine eligible providers for matching to a ride request. The matching model determines those providers that are far enough away from the request location to allow the requestor time to arrive at the pickup location without matching providers that are too far away, causing delay for the requestor and lowering the efficiency of the system by taking provider system resources from other service areas and increasing provider downtime upon matching. Additionally, embodiments provide more efficient matching processing leading to fewer canceled matched requests, fewer requests for a successful match, and fewer system resources necessary to meet requestor demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Austin Broyles, Robert Anthony Farmer, Krishna Kumar Selvam
  • Patent number: 11549818
    Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
  • Patent number: 11441914
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining matches of requestors and providers based on a dynamic provider eligibility model. For example, a request matching model uses an estimated arrival time for a requestor and estimated travel times for available providers to a pickup location to determine eligible providers for matching to a ride request. The matching model determines those providers that are far enough away from the request location to allow the requestor time to arrive at the pickup location without matching providers that are too far away, causing delay for the requestor and lowering the efficiency of the system by taking provider system resources from other service areas and increasing provider downtime upon matching. Additionally, embodiments provide more efficient matching processing leading to fewer canceled matched requests, fewer requests for a successful match, and fewer system resources necessary to meet requestor demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: LYFT, INC.
    Inventors: Austin Broyles, Robert Anthony Farmer, Krishna Kumar Selvam
  • Publication number: 20200393257
    Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
  • Patent number: 10634510
    Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LYFT, INC.
    Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
  • Publication number: 20200072622
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining matches of requestors and providers based on a dynamic provider eligibility model. For example, a request matching model uses an estimated arrival time for a requestor and estimated travel times for available providers to a pickup location to determine eligible providers for matching to a ride request. The matching model determines those providers that are far enough away from the request location to allow the requestor time to arrive at the pickup location without matching providers that are too far away, causing delay for the requestor and lowering the efficiency of the system by taking provider system resources from other service areas and increasing provider downtime upon matching. Additionally, embodiments provide more efficient matching processing leading to fewer canceled matched requests, fewer requests for a successful match, and fewer system resources necessary to meet requestor demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Austin Broyles, Robert Anthony Farmer, Krishna Kumar Selvam
  • Patent number: 10371539
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining matches of requestors and providers based on a dynamic provider eligibility model. For example, a request matching model uses an estimated arrival time for a requestor and estimated travel times for available providers to a pickup location to determine eligible providers for matching to a ride request. The matching model determines those providers that are far enough away from the request location to allow the requestor time to arrive at the pickup location without matching providers that are too far away, causing delay for the requestor and lowering the efficiency of the system by taking provider system resources from other service areas and increasing provider downtime upon matching. Additionally, embodiments provide more efficient matching processing leading to fewer canceled matched requests, fewer requests for a successful match, and fewer system resources necessary to meet requestor demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: LYFT, INC.
    Inventors: Austin Broyles, Robert Anthony Farmer, Krishna Kumar Selvam
  • Publication number: 20180259351
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining matches of requestors and providers based on a dynamic provider eligibility model. For example, a request matching model uses an estimated arrival time for a requestor and estimated travel times for available providers to a pickup location to determine eligible providers for matching to a ride request. The matching model determines those providers that are far enough away from the request location to allow the requestor time to arrive at the pickup location without matching providers that are too far away, causing delay for the requestor and lowering the efficiency of the system by taking provider system resources from other service areas and increasing provider downtime upon matching. Additionally, embodiments provide more efficient matching processing leading to fewer canceled matched requests, fewer requests for a successful match, and fewer system resources necessary to meet requestor demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Austin Broyles, Robert Anthony Farmer, Krishna Kumar Selvam
  • Publication number: 20180238695
    Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
  • Patent number: 9976863
    Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: LYFT, INC.
    Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
  • Publication number: 20170284820
    Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
  • Patent number: 9576287
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing payment events. One of the systems includes one or more processing engines configured to periodically retrieve information from a payment event feed that comprises a list of payment events in an order, and a server configured to perform a sequence of steps for a payment transaction, the sequence of steps including receiving a request for authorization of the payment transaction from a merchant, receiving an indication that the payment transaction has been authorized, and sending authorization to the merchant for the payment transaction without receiving acknowledgment that the one or more transaction processing engines have received the request for authorization, wherein the server is configured to record completion of each step in the sequence of steps as a payment event in the list of payment events to generate the payment event feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Kalinichenko, Simo Leone, Abhay Kumar, Austin Broyles, Matt Mihic
  • Patent number: 9536232
    Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatus for receiving the email message from a sender device; identifying, using data processing apparatus of a payment service system, a sender email address, a service email address, and one or more recipient email addresses from the email message; identifying, for the sender email address, a sender financial account associated with the payment service system and, for each of the one or more recipient email addresses, a respective recipient financial account associated with the payment service system; identifying a payment amount from a subject or body of the email message; submitting a request to transfer, using the payment service system, the payment amount from the respective sender financial account to the respective recipient financial account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SQUARE, INC.
    Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
  • Publication number: 20140279436
    Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatus for receiving the email message from a sender device; identifying, using data processing apparatus of a payment service system, a sender email address, a service email address, and one or more recipient email addresses from the email message; identifying, for the sender email address, a sender financial account associated with the payment service system and, for each of the one or more recipient email addresses, a respective recipient financial account associated with the payment service system; identifying a payment amount from a subject or body of the email message; submitting a request to transfer, using the payment service system, the payment amount from the respective sender financial account to the respective recipient financial account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
  • Patent number: 8606703
    Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatus for receiving the email message from a sender device; identifying, using data processing apparatus of a payment service system, a sender email address, a service email address, and one or more recipient email addresses from the email message; identifying, for the sender email address, a sender financial account associated with the payment service system and, for each of the one or more recipient email addresses, a respective recipient financial account associated with the payment service system; identifying a payment amount from a subject or body of the email message; submitting a request to transfer, using the payment service system, the payment amount from the respective sender financial account to the respective recipient financial account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles