Patent ID: 9536271
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: B60Q,G06Q,G07B

Claim:
1. A method for configuring an indication device, the method being performed by one or more processors of a computing system and comprising: arranging a transport service for a user by (i) receiving a transport request from a user device operated by the user, and (ii) selecting a driver to provide the transport service from a plurality of drivers, each of the plurality of drivers being associated with a vehicle, a driver device, and an indication device; determining that the user has specified an output configuration for an indication device in an account of the user, the output configuration being configurable by the user; in response to determining that the user has specified the output configuration, identifying, from a memory resource accessible by the computing system, data corresponding to the output configuration specified by the user; and transmitting, over one or more networks, the data to at least one of the driver device or the indicator device associated with the selected driver to configure how the indication device of the driver operates when the driver is selected for the customer.