Patents by Inventor Lily Sierra

Lily Sierra 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).

  • Publication number: 20220101473
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer readable media, and methods that intelligently provide dynamic transportation modes and corresponding user interfaces to client devices within multi-pickup-location area geofences to satisfy dynamic limitations corresponding to certain alternate location options. For instance, the disclosed systems can provide a transportation option corresponding to a first pickup location for display via the requestor device. Based on determining that the requestor device is associated with a location within a geofence of a multi-pickup-location area, the disclosed systems can provide a selectable mode option for initiating an alternate location transportation mode that includes modifying the pickup location for a transportation request to a second pickup location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Sarah Yael Brovman, Timothy Tay Chao, Daniel Kyungwon Doo, Nir Even Chen, Eun Joung, Ivan Nikolaev Konov, Allen Lamson Nguyen, Lily Sierra, Petch Wannissorn
  • Publication number: 20210306280
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for dynamically controlling requestor device queues by monitoring and utilizing the throughput rate of matched provider devices and requestor devices. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems determine throughput rate of matched provider devices and requestor devices in real-time and/or predicts throughput rate utilizing historical features of a particular location. The disclosed systems can generate and provide queue request notifications to requestor devices based on a throughput rate at the location. Specifically, the disclosed systems can monitor a current queue status over time, compare the queue status to a queue threshold, and dynamically generate queue request notifications that reflects throughput-based queue modifiers as the current queue status approaches the queue threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Maxim Dorofiyenko, Nir Even Chen, Dean Israel Grosbard, Jeremy Alexander Karp, Manu Singh Sabherwal, Lily Sierra
  • Publication number: 20210295224
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for intelligently pre-dispatching candidate provider devices to a geographic area by utilizing a pre-dispatch model accounting for forecasted transportation requests. For example, the disclosed systems can determine how many candidate provider devices to pre-dispatch to a geographic area based on a variety of inputs, including a projected requestor device queue, a projected provider device queue, and/or a queue capacity. In particular, the disclosed systems can utilize a look-ahead model and a look-behind model to compare a queue capacity with projected provider device queues corresponding to estimated times of arrival for one or more candidate provider devices. If the projected provider device queues comport with the queue capacity according to both the look-ahead model and the look-behind model, the disclosed systems can proceed with pre-dispatching the candidate provider device to the geographic area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Maxim Dorofiyenko, Nir Even Chen, John Stevens Markevitch, Mohammad Ali Motie Share, Allen Lamson Nguyen, Lily Sierra
  • Publication number: 20200151624
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, by a dynamic transportation system, a request from a transportation provider device outside a transportation provider matching area to enter a pool associated with the transportation provider matching area, adding the transportation provider device to the pool in response to receiving the request, thereby rendering the transportation provider device eligible for transportation matches with transportation requests associated with the transportation provider matching area, and matching a transportation request associated with the transportation provider matching area to the transportation provider for the transportation service based at least in part on the adding the transportation provider device to the pool. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Lily Sierra, Alexander James Hillis, Ari Greenberg, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Hicham Bouabdallah
  • Publication number: 20190311629
    Abstract: The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system provides a virtual queue in connection with a congested venue. In response to receiving a transportation request from a requestor at a congested venue, the system adds the requestor to a virtual queue. The system then adjusts the virtual queue position as necessary based on the requestor's speed and direction of travel in relation to the venue's pickup location. When the requestor reaches the front of the virtual queue, the system provides a requestor identifier to the requestor. The requestor can then use the requestor identifier to engage any available provider at the venue's pickup location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Lily Sierra, Danial Afzal, Elijah Pike Flesher, Jisi Guo, Alexander James Hillis, Fahri Tasdelen
  • Patent number: D987681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Cooper Frank Liska-Smith, Eun Joung, Allen Lamson Nguyen, Amelia Rimera Binotti Riely, Betty Wang, Aurelia Vicky Heitz, Timothy Patrick Johnson, Kai Xiao Fang, Lily Sierra