Patent ID: 11966882
Assignee: ZUM SERVICES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A system for requesting a ride for a third-party rider by a ride requestor, comprising: a user device, including a processor to: transmit a ride request to a server for a third party rider; determine a social network sphere of potential drivers; identify a set of trusted drivers based on the similarities in the social network sphere of the drivers and the social network sphere of the user; receive a display of an identification of a driver from a set of trusted drivers among a pool of drivers who is at least one of within the social network sphere of the user and personally known to the user; transmit a password set by the user to a device associated with the driver; transmit the password set by the user to a device associated with the third-party rider; determine, based on password information obtained from the device associated with the third party rider and the device associated with the driver, that the password associated with the driver and the password associated with the third-party rider match; and receive a ride start confirmation in response to the determination that the password associated with the driver and the password associated with the third party rider match; display, the ride start confirmation including a ride itinerary on a display screen of the user device; and display an estimated time of arrival and location of a vehicle associated with a driver in real time on the display screen of the device which both update on the display screen of the device as the vehicle moves along the ride itinerary.