Patents by Inventor Robert A. Farmer

Robert A. Farmer 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: 20250217728
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a transportation matching system that manages the allocation of transportation providers by training and utilizing multiple machine-learning models to identify, allocate, and serve specific transportation providers with customized opportunities to relocate the transportation providers between geocoded areas in a geocoded region. For instance, the transportation matching system trains and utilizes an incremental provider model, a provider allocation model, and personalized provider behavioral models as well as a customized provider interface generator to satisfy anticipated transportation requests and improve transportation matching within a geocoded region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Gaurav Gupta, Ehud Milo, Omar Khalid, Amy J. Kim, Jacky Yi Han Lu, Richard Zhao, Robert A. Farmer, Akash Gaurav Shah
  • Patent number: 12260358
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a transportation matching system that manages the allocation of transportation providers by training and utilizing multiple machine-learning models to identify, allocate, and serve specific transportation providers with customized opportunities to relocate the transportation providers between geocoded areas in a geocoded region. For instance, the transportation matching system trains and utilizes an incremental provider model, a provider allocation model, and personalized provider behavioral models as well as a customized provider interface generator to satisfy anticipated transportation requests and improve transportation matching within a geocoded region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Gaurav Gupta, Ehud Milo, Omar Khalid, Amy J. Kim, Jacky Yi Han Lu, Richard Zhao, Robert A. Farmer, Akash Gaurav Shah
  • Patent number: 11494714
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a transportation matching system that manages the allocation of transportation providers by training and utilizing multiple machine-learning models to identify, allocate, and serve specific transportation providers with customized opportunities to relocate the transportation providers between geocoded areas in a geocoded region. For instance, the transportation matching system trains and utilizes an incremental provider model, a provider allocation model, and personalized provider behavioral models as well as a customized provider interface generator to satisfy anticipated transportation requests and improve transportation matching within a geocoded region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Gaurav Gupta, Ehud Milo, Omar Khalid, Amy J. Kim, Jacky Yi Han Lu, Richard Zhao, Robert A. Farmer
  • Publication number: 20200250600
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a transportation matching system that manages the allocation of transportation providers by training and utilizing multiple machine-learning models to identify, allocate, and serve specific transportation providers with customized opportunities to relocate the transportation providers between geocoded areas in a geocoded region. For instance, the transportation matching system trains and utilizes an incremental provider model, a provider allocation model, and personalized provider behavioral models as well as a customized provider interface generator to satisfy anticipated transportation requests and improve transportation matching within a geocoded region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Gaurav Gupta, Ehud Milo, Omar Khalid, Amy J. Kim, Jacky Yi Han Lu, Richard Zhao, Robert A. Farmer
  • Patent number: 10552773
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a transportation matching system that manages the allocation of transportation providers by training and utilizing multiple machine-learning models to identify, allocate, and serve specific transportation providers with customized opportunities to relocate the transportation providers between geocoded areas in a geocoded region. For instance, the transportation matching system trains and utilizes an incremental provider model, a provider allocation model, and personalized provider behavioral models as well as a customized provider interface generator to satisfy anticipated transportation requests and improve transportation matching within a geocoded region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Akash Gaurav Shah, Ehud Milo, Omar Khalid, Amy J. Kim, Jacky Yi Han Lu, Richard Zhao, Robert A. Farmer
  • Publication number: 20080059257
    Abstract: A system for performing a competitive assessment including a method for evaluating at least one operation associated with a market sector is disclosed. The method includes determining a first entity and at least one second entity, each performing the at least one operation within the market sector to separately produce a desired output. The method also includes compiling data indicative of the first entity and the at least one second entity respectively performing the at least one operation. The method also includes determining a first value and at least one second value as a function of the compiled data. The first and at least one second value are indicative of a respective ability of the first and the at least one second entity to perform the at least one operation. The method further includes evaluating the at least one operation as an advantage of the first entity over the second entity with respect to the market sector if the first value is greater than the at least one second value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Robert A. Farmer, Gordon D. Ferguson, Ernest P. Thomatis, Steven L. Vanne