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

Claim 0:
1. A method of requesting a ride for a third-party rider by a user, comprising: transmitting, by a user device, a ride request to a server for a third-party rider; determining, by a user device, a social network sphere of potential drivers; identifying, by a user device, 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; receiving, by the user device 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; transmitting, by the user device, a password set by the user to a device associated with the driver; transmitting, by the user device, the password set by the user to a device associated with the third-party rider; determining, by the user device and 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; receiving, by the user device and the device associated with the third-party rider, 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; displaying, by the user device the ride start confirmation including a ride itinerary on a display screen of the user device; and displaying, by the user device, an estimated time of arrival and location of a vehicle associated with a driver in real time on the display screen of the user device which both update on the display screen of the user device as the vehicle moves along the ride itinerary.