Patent ID: 11935083
Assignee: LYFT, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to:
receive, from a passenger computing device associated with a transportation matching system, a transportation request indicating a pickup location;
identify a first geographic zone and a second geographic zone associated with the pickup location;
determine, by the computing device based on the pickup location, that the first geographic zone is closer to the pickup location than the second geographic zone;
based on determining that the first geographic zone is closer to the pickup location, generate, by the computing device, a surge gradient by weighting a surge price associated with the first geographic zone more than a surge price associated with the second geographic zone within a distance-weighted surge gradient;
determine a surge pricing multiplier for the pickup location based on the surge gradient between the first geographic zone and the second geographic zone;
monitor interactions with a plurality of passenger computing devices and a plurality of driver computing devices to determine a number of transportation requests corresponding to the plurality of passenger computing devices and a number of available driver computing devices;
update the surge pricing multiplier for the pickup location based on the surge gradient between the first geographic zone and the second geographic zone, the number of transportation requests, and the number of available driver computing devices;
transmit, for display on a graphical user interface of one or more driver devices associated with the transportation matching system, the transportation request and an indication of the updated surge pricing multiplier associated with the transportation request;
receive, from a first driver computing device associated with a first driver, an acceptance of the transportation request; and
transmit, to the first driver computing device, navigational data to direct the first driver to the pickup location to fulfill the transportation request.