Patent Publication Number: US-11037263-B2

Title: Systems and methods for displaying an identity relating to a service request

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2016/112376, filed on Dec. 27, 2016, which claims priority to Chinese Application No. 201610356149.2 filed on May 25, 2016, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. 
    
    
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for on-demand service, and in particular, systems and methods for directing a display to display an identity relating to a service request. 
     BACKGROUND 
     With the development of Internet technology, on-demand transportation services, such as online taxi hailing services, have become more and more popular. Through an online transportation service platform, a requestor may request a transportation service through an application installed on user equipment, such as a smart phone terminal. Then a server of the platform may broadcast the request to service providers. A service provider may accept the request and pick up the requestor at a pick-up location. Under some situations, on the way to pick up the requestor, it may be difficult for the service provider to identity the requestor efficiently. 
     SUMMARY 
     According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a system may include one or more storage media and one or more processors configured to communicate with the one or more storage media. The one or more storage media may include a set of instructions for directing a display to display an identity relating to a service request. When the one or more processors executing the set of instructions, the one or more processors may be directed to perform one or more of the following operations. The one or more processors may obtain a target service request associated with a target transportation service from a target requestor. The one or more processors may then direct a provider terminal corresponding to a provider of the target transportation service to display an identity relating to the target service request to assist the provider to identify the target requestor. 
     In some embodiments, the identity relating to the target service request may include at least one of a requestor identity of the target requestor and/or a pick-up location identity. 
     In some embodiments, the one or more processors may determine a location of the provider. The one or more processors may determine a first start location of the target service request. The one or more processors may determine a first distance between the first start location and the location of the provider. The one or more processors may determine the first distance is less than a first threshold. The one or more processors may then direct the provider terminal to display the requestor identity. 
     In some embodiments, the requestor identity may include at least one of a name, an image, a telephone number, the first start location, and/or the first distance. 
     In some embodiments, the one or more processors may direct the provider terminal to display a pick-up icon relating to the requestor identity. The one or more processors may receive an instruction from the provider terminal when the pick-up icon is activated. The one or more processors may then determine the requestor is picked up based on the instruction. 
     In some embodiments, the one or more processors may direct the provider terminal to display an effect to the pick-up icon. The effect may include at least one of highlighting the pick-up icon, twinkling the pick-up icon, changing a size of the pick-up icon, blurring the pick-up icon, blurring a background of the pick-up icon, and/or fading the background of the pick-up icon. 
     In some embodiments, the one or more processors may obtain a plurality of candidate service requests, wherein a number of the plurality of candidate requests may be greater than a second threshold value, and each candidate service request may be associated with a candidate requestor from a plurality of candidate requestors. The one or more processors may obtain a second start location of the candidate service request for each candidate service request. The one or more processors may select a set of candidate service requests from the plurality of candidate service requests to combine into a request group, wherein a second distance between any two second start locations associated with the set of candidate service requests may be less than a third threshold value. The one or more processors may then direct the provider terminal to display a pick-up location identity relating to the request group. 
     In some embodiments, the pick-up location identity may include at least one of a pick-up location of the request group and/or the number of the set of candidate service requests in the request group. 
     In some embodiments, the pick-up location of the request group may be a central location among the second start locations associated with the set of candidate service requests. 
     In some embodiments, the one or more processors may direct the provider terminal to display a set of candidate requestor identities of the set of candidate service requests, wherein each candidate requestor identity may be associated with a candidate service request in the request group. The one or more processors may generate a requestor identity group by gathering the set of candidate requestor identities of the set of candidate service requests. The one or more processors may direct the provider terminal to display an icon of the requestor identity group. The one or more processors may shrink the icon of the requestor identity group. The one or more processors may hide the shrunk icon of the requestor identity group. 
     In some embodiments, the one or more processors may receive a first instruction relating to activating at least one of a set of candidate requestor identity icons corresponding to the set of candidate requestor identities from the provider terminal. The one or more processors may receive a second instruction relating to activating a predetermined control button from the provider terminal. The one or more processors may then determine a set of service statuses of the set of candidate service requests based on the first instruction and the second instruction. 
     In some embodiments, the set of service statuses may include a requestor status and/or a provider status, wherein the requestor status may include a picked-up status and/or a not-yet-picked-up status, and wherein the provider status may include an arrived status and/or a left status. 
     According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a method may include one or more of the following operations. A computer server may obtain a target service request associated with a target transportation service from a target requestor. The computer server may then direct a provider terminal corresponding to a provider of the target transportation service to display an identity relating to the target service request to assist the provider to identify the target requestor. 
     In some embodiments, the identity relating to the target service request may include at least one of a requestor identity of the target requestor and/or a pick-up location identity. 
     In some embodiments, the computer server may determine a location of the provider. The computer server may determine a first start location of the target service request. The computer server may determine a first distance between the first start location and the location of the provider. The computer server may determine the first distance is less than a first threshold. The computer server may then direct the provider terminal to display the requestor identity. 
     In some embodiments, the requestor identity may include at least one of a name, an image, a telephone number, the first start location, and/or the first distance. 
     In some embodiments, the computer server may direct the provider terminal to display a pick-up icon relating to the requestor identity. The computer server may receive an instruction from the provider terminal when the pick-up icon is activated. The computer server may then determine the requestor is picked up based on the instruction. 
     In some embodiments, the computer server may direct the provider terminal to display an effect to the pick-up icon. The effect may include at least one of highlighting the pick-up icon, twinkling the pick-up icon, changing a size of the pick-up icon, blurring the pick-up icon, blurring a background of the pick-up icon, and/or fading the background of the pick-up icon. 
     In some embodiments, the computer server may obtain a plurality of candidate service requests, wherein a number of the plurality of candidate requests may be greater than a second threshold value, and each candidate service request may be associated with a candidate requestor from a plurality of candidate requestors. The computer server may obtain a second start location of the candidate service request for each candidate service request. The computer server may select a set of candidate service requests from the plurality of candidate service requests to combine into a request group, wherein a second distance between any two second start locations associated with the set of candidate service requests may be less than a third threshold value. The computer server may then direct the provider terminal to display a pick-up location identity relating to the request group. 
     In some embodiments, the pick-up location identity may include at least one of a pick-up location of the request group and/or the number of the set of candidate service requests in the request group. 
     In some embodiments, the pick-up location of the request group may be a central location among the second start locations associated with the set of candidate service requests. 
     In some embodiments, the computer server may direct the provider terminal to display a set of candidate requestor identities of the set of candidate service requests, wherein each candidate requestor identity may be associated with a candidate service request in the request group. The computer server may generate a requestor identity group by gathering the set of candidate requestor identities of the set of candidate service requests. The computer server may direct the provider terminal to display an icon of the requestor identity group. The computer server may shrink the icon of the requestor identity group. The computer server may hide the shrunk icon of the requestor identity group. 
     In some embodiments, the computer server may receive a first instruction relating to activating at least one of a set of candidate requestor identity icons corresponding to the set of candidate requestor identities from the provider terminal. The computer server may receive a second instruction relating to activating a predetermined control button from the provider terminal. The computer server may then determine a set of service statuses of the set of candidate service requests based on the first instruction and the second instruction. 
     In some embodiments, the set of service statuses may include a requestor status and/or a provider status, wherein the requestor status may include a picked-up status and/or a not-yet-picked-up status, and wherein the provider status may include an arrived status and/or a left status. 
     Additional features will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examination of the following and the accompanying drawings or may be learned by production or operation of the examples. The features of the present disclosure may be realized and attained by practice or use of various aspects of the methodologies, instrumentalities and combinations set forth in the detailed examples discussed below. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The present disclosure is further described in terms of exemplary embodiments. These exemplary embodiments are described in detail with reference to the drawings. These embodiments are non-limiting exemplary embodiments, in which like reference numerals represent similar structures throughout the several views of the drawings, and wherein: 
         FIG. 1  is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary on-demand service system according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; 
         FIG. 2  is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary computing device in the on-demand service system according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; 
         FIG. 3  is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary processing engine according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; 
         FIG. 4  is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process/method for directing a display to display an identity relating to a service request according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; 
         FIGS. 5 -A and  5 -B are flowcharts illustrating an exemplary process/method for directing a display to display a requestor identity or a pick-up location identity according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; 
         FIGS. 6 -A and  6 -B are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary process/method for determining a request group according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; 
         FIGS. 7 -A and  7 -B are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary user interface for displaying a requestor identity according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; 
         FIGS. 8 -A through  8 -D are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary user interface for displaying a pick-up location identity according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; and 
         FIGS. 9 -A through  9 -F are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary user interface for modifying a service status according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     The following description is presented to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present disclosure, and is provided in the context of a particular application and its requirements. Various modifications to the disclosed embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments shown, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the claims. 
     The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” may be intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “includes,” and/or “including” when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. 
     These and other features, and characteristics of the present disclosure, as well as the methods of operation and functions of the related elements of structure and the combination of parts and economies of manufacture, may become more apparent upon consideration of the following description with reference to the accompanying drawing(s), all of which form a part of this specification. It is to be expressly understood, however, that the drawing(s) are for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. It is understood that the drawings are not to scale. 
     The flowcharts used in the present disclosure illustrate operations that systems implement according to some embodiments in the present disclosure. It is to be expressly understood, the operations of the flowchart may be implemented not in order. Conversely, the operations may be implemented in inverted order, or simultaneously. Moreover, one or more other operations may be added to the flowcharts. One or more operations may be removed from the flowcharts. 
     Moreover, while the system and method in the present disclosure is described primarily in regard to directing a display to display an identity relating to a service request, it should also be understood that this is only one exemplary embodiment. The system or method of the present disclosure may be applied to any other kind of on-demand service. For example, the system or method of the present disclosure may be applied to different transportation systems including land, ocean, aerospace, or the like, or any combination thereof. The vehicle of the transportation systems may include a taxi, a private car, a hitch, a bus, a train, a bullet train, a high speed rail, a subway, a vessel, an aircraft, a spaceship, a hot-air balloon, a driverless vehicle, or the like, or any combination thereof. The transportation system may also include any transportation system that applies management and/or distribution, for example, a system for sending and/or receiving an express. The application scenarios of the system or method of the present disclosure may include a webpage, a plug-in of a browser, a client terminal, a custom system, an internal analysis system, an artificial intelligence robot, or the like, or any combination thereof. 
     The term “passenger,” “requester,” “service requester,” and “customer” in the present disclosure are used interchangeably to refer to an individual, an entity or a tool that may request or order a service. Also, the term “driver,” “provider,” “service provider,” and “supplier” in the present disclosure are used interchangeably to refer to an individual, an entity or a tool that may provide a service or facilitate the providing of the service. The term “user” in the present disclosure may refer to an individual, an entity or a tool that may request a service, order a service, provide a service, or facilitate the providing of the service. For example, the user may be a passenger, a driver, an operator, or the like, or any combination thereof. In the present disclosure, “passenger” and “passenger terminal” may be used interchangeably, and “driver” and “driver terminal” may be used interchangeably. 
     The term “request”, “service request” and “order” in the present disclosure are used interchangeably to refer to request that may be initiated by a passenger, a requester, a service requester, a customer, a driver, a provider, a service provider, a supplier, or the like, or any combination thereof. The service request may be accepted by any one of a passenger, a requester, a service requester, a customer, a driver, a provider, a service provider, or a supplier. The service request may be chargeable, or free. 
     The positioning technology used in the present disclosure may include a global positioning system (GPS), a global navigation satellite system (GLONASS), a compass navigation system (COMPASS), a Galileo positioning system, a quasi-zenith satellite system (QZSS), a wireless fidelity (WiFi) positioning technology, or the like, or any combination thereof. One or more of the above positioning technologies may be used interchangeably in the present disclosure. 
     An aspect of the present disclosure provides online systems and methods for displaying a passenger&#39;s (i.e., a transportation service requestor) identity or a pick-up location identity on a driver&#39;s (e.g., a transportation service provider) user terminal to assist the driver to identify the passenger when the driver picks up the passenger. 
     It should be noted that online on-demand transportation service, such as online taxi hailing (or online public transportation service hailing), is a new form of service rooted only in post-Internet era. It provides technical solutions to users and service providers that could raise only in post-Internet era. In pre-Internet era, when a user hails a taxi on street, the taxi request and acceptance occur only between the passenger and one taxi driver that sees the passenger. If the passenger hails a taxi through telephone call, the service request and acceptance may occur only between the passenger and one service provider (e.g., one taxi company or agent). Online taxi, however, allows a user of the service to real-time and automatic distribute a service request to a vast number of individual service providers (e.g., taxi) distance away from the user. It also allows a plurality of service provides to respond to the service request simultaneously and in real-time. Therefore, through Internet, the online on-demand transportation systems may provide a much more efficient transaction platform for the users and the service providers that may never met in a traditional pre-Internet transportation service system. 
       FIG. 1  is a block diagram of an exemplary on-demand service system  100  according to some embodiments. The on-demand service system  100  may be an online transportation service platform including a server  110 , a network  120 , a requestor terminal  130 , a provider terminal  140 , and a database  150 . The server  110  may include a processing engine  112 . 
     In some embodiments, the server  110  may be a single server, or a server group. The server group may be centralized, or distributed (e.g., server  110  may be a distributed system). In some embodiments, the server  110  may be local or remote. For example, the server  110  may access information and/or data stored in the requestor terminal  130 , the provider terminal  140 , and/or the database  150  via the network  120 . As another example, the server  110  may be directly connected to the requestor terminal  130 , the provider terminal  140 , and/or the database  150  to access stored information and/or data. In some embodiments, the server  110  may be implemented on a cloud platform. Merely by way of example, the cloud platform may include a private cloud, a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, a community cloud, a distributed cloud, an inter-cloud, a multi-cloud, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the server  110  may be implemented on a computing device  200  having one or more components illustrated in  FIG. 2  in the present disclosure. 
     In some embodiments, the server  110  may include a processing engine  112 . The processing engine  112  may process information and/or data relating to the service request to perform one or more functions described in the present disclosure. For example, the processing engine  112  may direct a display to display an identity relating to a service request. In some embodiments, the processing engine  112  may include one or more processing engines (e.g., single-core processing engine(s) or multi-core processor(s)). Merely by way of example, the processing engine  112  may include a central processing unit (CPU), an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), an application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a physics processing unit (PPU), a digital signal processor (DSP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a programmable logic device (PLD), a controller, a microcontroller unit, a reduced instruction-set computer (RISC), a microprocessor, or the like, or any combination thereof. 
     The network  120  may facilitate exchange of information and/or data. In some embodiments, one or more components in the on-demand service system  100  (e.g., the server  110 , the requestor terminal  130 , the provider terminal  140 , and the database  150 ) may send information and/or data to other component(s) in the on-demand service system  100  via the network  120 . For example, the server  110  may obtain/acquire service request from the requestor terminal  130  via the network  120 . In some embodiments, the network  120  may be any type of wired or wireless network, or combination thereof. Merely by way of example, the network  130  may include a cable network, a wireline network, an optical fiber network, a tele communications network, an intranet, an Internet, a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a wireless local area network (WLAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), a public telephone switched network (PSTN), a Bluetooth network, a ZigBee network, a near field communication (NFC) network, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the network  120  may include one or more network access points. For example, the network  120  may include wired or wireless network access points such as base stations and/or internet exchange points  120 - 1 ,  120 - 2 , . . . , through which one or more components of the on-demand service system  100  may be connected to the network  120  to exchange data and/or information. 
     In some embodiments, a requestor may be a user of the requestor terminal  130 . In some embodiments, the user of the requestor terminal  130  may be someone other than the requestor. For example, a user A of the requestor terminal  130  may use the requestor terminal  130  to send a request for a user B, or receive service and/or information or instructions from the server  110 . In some embodiments, a provider may be a user of the provider terminal  140 . In some embodiments, the user of the provider terminal  140  may be someone other than the provider. For example, a user C of the provider terminal  140  may user the provider terminal  140  to receive a request for a user D, and/or information or instructions from the server  110 . In some embodiments, “requestor” and “requestor terminal” may be used interchangeably, and “provider” and “provider terminal” may be used interchangeably. 
     In some embodiments, the requestor terminal  130  may include a mobile device  130 - 1 , a tablet computer  130 - 2 , a laptop computer  130 - 3 , a built-in device in a motor vehicle  130 - 4 , or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the mobile device  130 - 1  may include a smart home device, a wearable device, a smart mobile device, a virtual reality device, an augmented reality device, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the smart home device may include a smart lighting device, a control device of an intelligent electrical apparatus, a smart monitoring device, a smart television, a smart video camera, an interphone, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the wearable device may include a smart bracelet, a smart footgear, a smart glass, a smart helmet, a smart watch, a smart clothing, a smart backpack, a smart accessory, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the smart mobile device may include a smartphone, a personal digital assistance (PDA), a gaming device, a navigation device, a point of sale (POS) device, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the virtual reality device and/or the augmented reality device may include a virtual reality helmet, a virtual reality glass, a virtual reality patch, an augmented reality helmet, an augmented reality glass, an augmented reality patch, or the like, or any combination thereof. For example, the virtual reality device and/or the augmented reality device may include a Google Glass, an Oculus Rift, a Hololens, a Gear VR, etc. In some embodiments, built-in device in the motor vehicle  130 - 4  may include an onboard computer, an onboard television, etc. In some embodiments, the requestor terminal  130  may be a device with positioning technology for locating the position of the requestor and/or the requestor terminal  130 . 
     In some embodiments, the provider terminal  140  may be similar to, or the same device as the requestor terminal  130 . In some embodiments, the provider terminal  140  may be a device with positioning technology for locating the position of the provider and/or the provider terminal  140 . In some embodiments, the requestor terminal  130  and/or the provider terminal  140  may communicate with other positioning device to determine the position of the requestor, the requestor terminal  130 , the provider, and/or the provider terminal  140 . In some embodiments, the requestor terminal  130  and/or the provider terminal  140  may send positioning information to the server  110 . 
     The database  150  may store data and/or instructions. In some embodiments, the database  150  may store data obtained from the requestor terminal  130  and/or the provider terminal  140 . In some embodiments, the database  150  may store data and/or instructions that the server  110  may execute or use to perform exemplary methods described in the present disclosure. In some embodiments, database  150  may include a mass storage, a removable storage, a volatile read-and-write memory, a read-only memory (ROM), or the like, or any combination thereof. Exemplary mass storage may include a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a solid-state drives, etc. Exemplary removable storage may include a flash drive, a floppy disk, an optical disk, a memory card, a zip disk, a magnetic tape, etc. Exemplary volatile read-and-write memory may include a random access memory (RAM). Exemplary RAM may include a dynamic RAM (DRAM), a double date rate synchronous dynamic RAM (DDR SDRAM), a static RAM (SRAM), a thyristor RAM (T-RAM), and a zero-capacitor RAM (Z-RAM), etc. Exemplary ROM may include a mask ROM (MROM), a programmable ROM (PROM), an erasable programmable ROM (PEROM), an electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), a compact disk ROM (CD-ROM), and a digital versatile disk ROM, etc. In some embodiments, the database  150  may be implemented on a cloud platform. Merely by way of example, the cloud platform may include a private cloud, a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, a community cloud, a distributed cloud, an inter-cloud, a multi-cloud, or the like, or any combination thereof. 
     In some embodiments, the database  150  may be connected to the network  120  to communicate with one or more components in the on-demand service system  100  (e.g., the server  110 , the requestor terminal  130 , the provider terminal  140 , etc.). One or more components in the on-demand service system  100  may access the data or instructions stored in the database  150  via the network  120 . In some embodiments, the database  150  may be directly connected to or communicate with one or more components in the on-demand service system  100  (e.g., the server  110 , the requestor terminal  130 , the provider terminal  140 , etc.). In some embodiments, the database  150  may be part of the server  110 . 
     In some embodiments, one or more components in the on-demand service system  100  (e.g., the server  110 , the requestor terminal  130 , the provider terminal  140 , etc.) may have a permission to access the database  150 . In some embodiments, one or more components in the on-demand service system  100  may read and/or modify information relating to the requestor, provider, and/or the public when one or more conditions are met. For example, the server  110  may read and/or modify one or more users&#39; information after a service. As another example, the provider terminal  140  may access information relating to the requestor when receiving a request from the requestor terminal  130 , but the provider terminal  140  may not modify the relevant information of the requestor. 
     In some embodiments, information exchanging of one or more components in the on-demand service system  100  may be achieved by way of requesting a service. The object of the service request may be any product. In some embodiments, the product may be a tangible product, or an immaterial product. The tangible product may include food, medicine, commodity, chemical product, electrical appliance, clothing, car, housing, luxury, or the like, or any combination thereof. The immaterial product may include a servicing product, a financial product, a knowledge product, an internet product, or the like, or any combination thereof. The internet product may include an individual host product, a web product, a mobile internet product, a commercial host product, an embedded product, or the like, or any combination thereof. The mobile internet product may be used in a software of a mobile terminal, a program, a system, or the like, or any combination thereof. The mobile terminal may include a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistance (PDA), a smart watch, a point of sale (POS) device, an onboard computer, an onboard television, a wearable device, or the like, or any combination thereof. For example, the product may be any software and/or application used in the computer or mobile phone. The software and/or application may relate to socializing, shopping, transporting, entertainment, learning, investment, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the software and/or application relating to transporting may include a traveling software and/or application, a vehicle scheduling software and/or application, a mapping software and/or application, etc. In the vehicle scheduling software and/or application, the vehicle may include a horse, a carriage, a rickshaw (e.g., a wheelbarrow, a bike, a tricycle, etc.), a car (e.g., a taxi, a bus, a private car, etc.), a train, a subway, a vessel, an aircraft (e.g., an airplane, a helicopter, a space shuttle, a rocket, a hot-air balloon, etc.), or the like, or any combination thereof. 
       FIG. 2  is a schematic diagram illustrating exemplary hardware and software components of a computing device  200  on which the server  110 , the requestor terminal  130 , and/or the provider terminal  140  may be implemented according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, the processing engine  112  may be implemented on the computing device  200  and configured to perform functions of the processing engine  112  disclosed in this disclosure. 
     The computing device  200  may be a general purpose computer or a special purpose computer, both may be used to implement an on-demand system for the present disclosure. The computing device  200  may be used to implement any component of the on-demand service as described herein. For example, the processing engine  112  may be implemented on the computing device  200 , via its hardware, software program, firmware, or a combination thereof. Although only one such computer is shown, for convenience, the computer functions relating to the on-demand service as described herein may be implemented in a distributed fashion on a number of similar platforms, to distribute the processing load. 
     The computing device  200 , for example, may include COM ports  250  connected to and from a network connected thereto to facilitate data communications. The computing device  200  may also include a central processing unit (CPU)  220 , in the form of one or more processors, for executing program instructions. The exemplary computer platform may include an internal communication bus  210 , program storage and data storage of different forms, for example, a disk  270 , and a read only memory (ROM)  230 , or a random access memory (RAM)  240 , for various data files to be processed and/or transmitted by the computer. The exemplary computer platform may also include program instructions stored in the ROM, RAM, and/or other type of non-transitory storage medium. The methods and/or processes of the present disclosure may be implemented as the program instructions. The computing device  200  also includes an I/O component  260 , supporting input/output between the computer and other components therein such as user interface elements  280 . The computing device  200  may also receive programming and data via network communications. 
     Merely for illustration, only one CPU and/or processor is described in the computing device  200 . However, it should be note that the computing device  200  in the present disclosure may also include multiple CPUs and/or processors, thus operations and/or method steps that are performed by one CPU and/or processor as described in the present disclosure may also be jointly or separately performed by the multiple CPUs and/or processors. For example, if in the present disclosure the CPU and/or processor of the computing device  200  executes both step A and step B, it should be understood that step A and step B may also be performed by two different CPUs and/or processors jointly or separately in the computing device  200  (e.g., the first processor executes step A and the second processor executes step B, or the first and second processors jointly execute steps A and B). 
       FIG. 3  is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary processing engine  112  according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The processing engine  112  may include an acquisition module  301  and a direction module  303 . 
     The acquisition module  301  may be configured to obtain a service request from a requestor. In this disclosure, the service request may refer to a request for a transportation service which has been accepted by a service provider. As used herein, “accept” may refer to that the service provider agrees to provide the transportation service for the requestor. After the service provider accepts the service request, the requestor may wait for the service provider at a specific location. The transportation service may be a service for a taxi, a private vehicle, a bus, a truck, a bicycle, a ship, an aircraft, a test drive, a designated driving, or the like, or a combination thereof. The acquisition module  301  may obtain the service request from the requestor terminal  130  via the network  120 . The service request may be transmitted to the direction module  303  to be further processed. In some embodiments, the acquisition module  301  may obtain a plurality of service requests from a plurality of requestors. 
     The direction module  303  may be configured to direct a display (e.g., a screen) to display an identity relating to the service request. The identity relating to the service request may include a requestor identity (e.g., a name of the requestor) and/or a pick-up location identity (e.g., a pick-up location of the service request). The direction module  303  may direct a display on the provider terminal  140  or a display associated with the provider terminal  140  (e.g., a screen in a vehicle) to display the identity relating to the service request. 
     In some embodiments, the processing engine  112  may further include a modification module (not shown in  FIG. 3 ). The modification module may be configured to modify a service status (e.g., a picked-up status of the requestor, an arrived status of the service provider). The modification module may modify the service status based on one or more instructions (e.g., pressing a predetermined control button) from the service provider. 
     The modules in the processing engine  112  may be connected to or communicate with each other via a wired connection or a wireless connection. The wired connection may include a metal cable, an optical cable, a hybrid cable, or the like, or any combination thereof. The wireless connection may include a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), a Bluetooth, a ZigBee, a Near Field Communication (NFC), or the like, or any combination thereof. Any two of the modules may be combined as a single module, any one of the modules may be divided into two or more units. 
       FIG. 4  is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process/method  400  for directing a display to display an identity relating to a service request according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The process/method  400  may be performed by the on-demand service system  100 . For example, the process and/or method may be implemented as a set of instructions (e.g., an application) stored in the storage ROM  230  or RAM  240 . The CPU  210  may execute the set of instructions and may accordingly be directed to perform the process and/or method  400 . 
     In step  401 , the processing engine  112  may obtain a service request from a requestor. 
     The service request may be a request for a transportation service (e.g., a taxi service, a bus service) corresponding to a service provider. The service request may include a start location, a destination, a start time, or the like, or a combination thereof. The start location may be a current location of the requestor or a location defined by the requestor or the on-demand service system  100 . 
     In some embodiments, the transportation service may include a plurality of pick-up locations. As used herein, the pick-up location may refer to a location where the service provider may pick up the requestor. For example, the bus service may include a plurality of pick-up locations (i.e., bus stations) along a specific route and a schedule illustrated in Table 1 below. Under this situation, the requestor may determine the start location and/or the start time of the service request according to the route and the schedule. 
     Table 1 a table illustrating an exemplary route and schedule of a bus service 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
               
                   
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     In some embodiments, for the bus service, the route and/or the schedule may be adjustable. For example, the route may be fixed but the pick-up locations may be adjustable. As another example, the pick-up locations may be fixed but the route may be adjustable. As a further example, both the route and the pick-up locations may be adjustable. 
     In some embodiments, the transportation service may include one or more pick-up locations that are not predetermined. For example, for a taxi service, the pick-up location may be the current location of the requestor and/or the current location of the requestor terminal  130  (e.g., by a Global Position System (GPS) in the requestor terminal  130 ), or a defined location as the start location, and the service provider may pick up the requestor at the start location. 
     In some embodiments, for a specific transportation service, there may be a plurality of service requests corresponding to a plurality of requestors. Take the bus service as an example, a plurality of requestors may send a plurality of service requests for the bus service. Each of the plurality of service requests may include a specific start location. Under this situation, the processing engine  112  may analyze a plurality of start locations and determine one or more pick-up locations for the plurality of requestors. For example, a first service request includes a first start location, a second service request includes a second start location, the processing engine  112  may determine a center location of the first start location and the second start location as a pick-up location for the first service request and the second service request. 
     In step  403 , the processing engine  112  may direct a display on or associated with the provider terminal  140  to display an identity relating to the service request. 
     The identity relating to the service request may include a requestor identity and/or a pick-up location identity. As used herein, a requestor identity may refer to an identity that may assist a service provider to identify the requestor. The pick-up location identity may refer to an identity that may assist the service provider to identify a pick-up location of a request group and/or the number of requestors corresponding to the request group. As used herein, the request group may refer to a group including a set of service requests. The set of service requests may correspond to a set of requestors. 
     The requestor identity may include a name, an image, a telephone number, a start location (or a pick-up location) of the service request, a distance between the start location and a location of the service provider, or the like, or a combination thereof. The pick-up location identity may include a pick-up location of a requestor, a request group or the number of the requestors corresponding to the request group. The display may display the requestor identity and/or the pick-up location identity in various forms, for example, text, picture, audio, video, or the like, or a combination thereof. For example, the processing engine  112  may display the requestor identity as a requestor identity icon, and display the pick-up location identity as a pick-up location identity icon. 
     In some embodiments, the processing engine  112  may further provide a navigation service for the service provider on the provider terminal  140 . For example, the processing engine  112  may display information associated with the service request on a map (e.g., a Tencent map, a Google Map, or a Baidu map etc.) on the provider terminal  140 , for example, the location of the service provider, the start location of the service request, a pick-up location of a request group, a route from the location of the service provider to the start location or the pick-up location, a needed time from the location of the service provider to the start location or the pick-up location, a distance of the route, or the like, or a combination thereof. While on the way to pick up the requestor, the processing engine  112  may provide one or more notifications for the service provider. The notification may be associated with a speed limit, a traffic light, a road condition, or the like, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, the service provider may set a navigation preference via the provider terminal  140 . The navigation preference may include a volume of a navigation voice, a display effect associated with the road condition (e.g., read for traffic congestion, green for smooth), nearby entertainment, or the like, or a combination thereof. 
     In some embodiments, after the service provider picks up the requestor, the service provider may perform a plurality of operations to modify a service status of the service request via the provider terminal  140  (e.g., an user interface illustrated in  FIGS. 7 -A and  7 -B and/or  FIGS. 9 -A through  9 -F). The service status may include a requestor status and a provider status. The requestor status may include a picked-up status and a not-yet-picked-up status. The provider status may include an arrived status and a left status. 
       FIGS. 5 -A and  5 -B are flowcharts illustrating an exemplary process/method  500  for directing a display to display a requestor identity and/or a pick-up location identity according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The process and/or method  500  may be executed by the on-demand service system  100 . For example, the process and/or method may be implemented as a set of instructions (e.g., an application) stored in the storage ROM  230  or RAM  240 . The CPU  210  may execute the set of instructions and may accordingly be directed to perform the process and/or method  500 . 
     In step  501 , the processing engine  112  may obtain a plurality of candidate service requests from a plurality of candidate requestors within a predetermined region. 
     The plurality of candidate service requests may be requests for a transportation service (e.g., a bus service). The predetermined region may include an administrative area (e.g., a district in a city), or a geographical region (e.g., within a certain radius from a defined center location). For example, the processing engine  112  may define a location on or near the route of the bus service and obtain the plurality of candidate service requests of which start locations are within a certain radius (e.g., 1 km) from the defined location. In some embodiments, the processing engine  112  may obtain the plurality of candidate service requests within a predetermined time period. As used herein, the predetermined time period may refer to a time period from a current time point to a defined time point. For example, the processing engine  112  may obtain the plurality of candidate service requests of which start times are within 10 minutes from the current time point. 
     In step  503 , the processing engine  112  may determine the number of the plurality of candidate service requests. In step  505 , the processing engine  112  may determine whether the number of the plurality of candidate service requests is larger than a first threshold (e.g., 2). If not, the processing engine  112  may execute the process and/or method to step  509  to determine a target service request corresponding to a target requestor. The processing engine  112  may determine the target service request from the plurality of candidate service requests. For example, if there are two candidate service requests, the processing engine  112  may select one of the two candidate service requests as the target service request. As another example, the processing engine  112  may determine both the two candidate service requests as the target service requests. 
     In step  511 , the processing engine  112  may determine a first start location of the target service request. The first start location may be a specific pick-up location (e.g., a bus station of a bus service) of the transportation service, a current location of the requestor (e.g., taxi pick-up location) which may be obtained via a GPS in the requestor terminal  130 , or a location defined by the requestor. 
     In step  513 , the processing engine  112  may determine a location of a service provider. 
     The service provider may be a provider who has accepted the plurality of candidate service requests. The processing engine  112  may obtain the location of the service provider via a GPS in the provider terminal  140  or a driving recorder in a corresponding vehicle (i.e., the vehicle of the service provider). 
     In step  515 , the processing engine  112  may determine a first distance between the first start location and the location of the provider. It should be noted that “distance” used in this disclosure may refer to a spatial distance or a travel distance. As used herein, a spatial distance may refer to a driving distance or walking distance. For example, the spatial distance may be the length of a path along which a service provider can drive a vehicle, such as a portion of road or a street. 
     In step  517 , the processing engine  112  may determine whether the first distance is less than a second threshold (e.g., 50 meters, 100 meters). If the answer is no, the processing engine  112  may execute the process and/or method  500  back to step  513 , that is, to update the location of the service provider after a time period (e.g., 1 minute, 5 minutes). If the answer is yes, the processing engine  112  may execute the process and/or method  500  to step  519  to direct a display (e.g., a user interface  700  on the provider terminal  140  illustrated in  FIG. 7 -A or  FIG. 7 -B) to display (e.g., highlight) a requestor identity relating to the target service request. The requestor identity may include a name, an image (e.g., a head image), a telephone number, the first start location, the first distance, or the like, or a combination thereof. The name may be a real name of the target requestor or a nickname. The telephone number may be a complete telephone number, or a section of the telephone number (e.g., last four numbers). The requestor identity may further include time information associated with the service request, for example, a needed time from the location of the service provider to the first start location. The display may display the requestor identity in a form of picture, text, audio, video, or the like, or a combination thereof. The display may display the requestor identity in various display effects, for example, highlighting, twinkling, colored, or enlarged. 
     After the service provider picks up the target requestor, the service provider may modify the requestor status from a not-yet-picked-up status to a picked-up status, and then modify the provider status from an arrived status to a left status. For example, the service provider may activate (e.g., press) a predetermined control button (e.g., a button “Done” illustrated in  FIG. 7 -A or  FIG. 7 -B, also referred to as a pick-up icon) to determine that the target requestor has been picked up. If the requestor is not picked up in a predetermined time period (e.g., 5 minutes), the service provider may only modify the provider status from the arrived status to the left status. As used herein, the predetermined time period may refer to a time period within which the service provider may wait for the requestor to be picked up. The predetermined time period may include a start time point, and the start time point may be the time point when the service provider arrives at a pick-up location. The predetermined time period may be default settings of the on-demand service system  100 , or may be adjustable depending on different situations. For example, if the pick-up location is in an area with heavy traffic, the predetermined time period may be reasonably shorter (e.g., 5 minutes) for ordinary person in the art, whereas if the pick-up location is in an area with light traffic, the predetermined time period may be reasonably longer (e.g., 15 minutes) for ordinary person in the art. As another example, in a traffic peak period, the predetermined time period may be relatively small (e.g., 5 minutes), whereas in idle period (e.g., 10:00-12:00 am), the predetermined time period may be relatively large (e.g., 15 minutes). 
     If the number of the plurality of candidate service requests is larger than the first threshold, the processing engine  112  may execute the process and/or method  500  to node A  507  and perform at least some of steps starting from node A  507  illustrated in  FIG. 5 -B. 
     In step  521 , the processing engine  112  may determine a second start location for each of the plurality of candidate service requests. In step  523 , the processing engine  112  may determine a plurality of second distances between any two of the plurality of second start locations. For example, for a service request O, a service request P, and a service request Q, the processing engine  112  may obtain a second start location O 0 , a second start location P 0 , and a second start location Q 0 , and determine a second distance O 0 P 0 , a second distance P 0 Q 0 , and a second distance O 0 Q 0 . 
     In step  525 , the processing engine  112  may determine one or more request groups based on the plurality of second distances. For example, for the service request O, the service request P, and the service request Q, if all the second distances including O 0 P 0 , P 0 Q 0 , and O 0 Q 0  are less than a third threshold (e.g., 1 kilometer), the processing engine  112  may combine the service request O, the service request P, and the service request Q as a request group. Each request group may include a set of candidate service requests, and each of the candidate service requests may be referred to as a request member of the request group. The set of candidate service requests may correspond to a set of candidate requestors. 
     In step  527 , the processing engine  112  may determine whether there are remainder candidate service request other than the one or more request groups. If so, the processing engine  112  may execute the process and/or method  500  to step  529  to determine the remainder candidate service request(s). Further, the processing engine  112  may execute the process and/or method  500  to node B  531  and perform at least some of steps from node B  531 , that is, the processing engine  112  may determine a target service request from the remainder candidate service request(s) and perform the following operations from step  511 . If not, the processing engine  112  execute the process and/or method to step  527  to direct a display (e.g., a user interface on the provider terminal  140  illustrated in  FIG. 8 -D) to display a pick-up location identity for each request group. In some embodiments, after the processing engine  112  determines the remainder candidate service requests in step  529 , the processing engine  112  may execute the process and/or method  500  to step  527  to display a pick-up location identity for each request group. 
     The pick-up location identity may include a pick-up location of the request group or the number of the requestors corresponding to the request group. In some embodiments, the pick-up location of the request group may be a center location of the second start locations of the request members in the request group. For example, for the request group including the service request O, the service request P, and the service request Q, the pick-up location of the request group may be a center location of the second start location O 0 , the second start location P 0 , and the second start location Q 0 . In some embodiments, the pick-up location of the request group may be a location (e.g., a bus station) in vicinity of the second start locations of the request members in the request group where the service provider can stop to pick up the requestors. As used herein, “in vicinity” may refer to that a distance between the pick-up location and each of the second start locations is less than a fourth threshold (e.g., 500 meters). 
     In some embodiments, the processing engine  112  may display the pick-up location identity dynamically. For example, the processing engine  112  may direct provider terminal  140  to display a set of candidate requestor identities of the set of candidate service requests, as used herein, each candidate requestor identity may be associated with a candidate service request in the request group. The processing engine  112  may generate a requestor identity group by gathering the set of candidate requestor identities of the set of candidate service requests. The processing engine  112  may direct the provider terminal  140  to display an icon of the requestor identity group (e.g., a gathered image associated with the set of candidate requestor identities). The processing engine  112  may further shrink the icon of the requestor identity group. The processing engine  112  may still further hide the shrunk icon of the requestor identity group (e.g., see  FIGS. 8 -A through  8 -D and the description thereof). Further, the processing engine  112  may direct the provider terminal  140  to display the pick-up location. It should be noted that the example above is provided only for illustration purposes, and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. 
     In some embodiments, the processing engine  112  may further send the pick-up location of the request group to each of the requestor terminals  130  corresponding to the requestors of the request group so that the requestors can move to the pick-up location to wait for the service provider. 
     When the service provider arrives at the pick-up location, the processing engine  112  may direct a display (e.g., a user interface  900  illustrated in  FIGS. 9 -A through  9 -F on the provider terminal  140 ) to display a set of candidate requestor identities of the set of candidate requestors (e.g., a set of candidate requestor identity icons (e.g., head images)) corresponding to the request group. After the service provider picks up all or a part of the set of candidate requestors corresponding to the request group, the service provider may modify the requestor statuses of the set of candidate requestors and the provider status simultaneously or successively. For example, the service provider may activate a candidate requestor identity icon (e.g., click a head image of a first candidate requestor (here referred to as a “first instruction”)) to determine that the first candidate requestor has not been picked up, and activate a predetermined control slider (e.g., a slider “Leaving” illustrated in  FIGS. 9 -A through  9 -F) (here referred to as a “second instruction”) to determine that the service provider is leaving the pick-up location or will leave the pick-up location soon (e.g., after 1 minutes). After receiving the first instruction and the second instruction, the processing engine  112  may modify the provider status from an arrived status to a left status and modify requestor statuses of the remainder candidate requestors other than the first candidate requestor from not-yet-picked-up statuses to picked-up statuses. 
     It should be noted that the above description is merely provided for the purposes of illustration, and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. For persons having ordinary skills in the art, multiple variations and modifications may be made under the teachings of the present disclosure. However, those variations and modifications do not depart from the scope of the present disclosure. For example, step  513  may be performed before step  511 ; step  511  and step  513  may be performed simultaneously. 
       FIGS. 6 -A and  6 -B are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary process/method for determining a request group according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The solid straight line refers to a default route of a bus service. As used herein, the default route may refer to a route predetermined by a service provider or the on-demand service system  100 . In actual operation, the default route may be adjustable, for example, left shift, right shift. 
     As illustrated in  FIGS. 6 -A and  6 -B, the processing engine  112  may define a location (the solid black point) on the default route and determine a circle from the location with a certain radius (e.g., 1 km). Within the circle, the processing engine  112  may determine a plurality of candidate service requests. The processing engine  112  may determine a plurality of distances between any two of the plurality of candidate service requests. Further, as illustrated in  FIG. 6 -A, the processing engine  112  may select a first set of candidate service requests from the plurality of candidate service requests to combine into a first request group  602 . For the request group  602 , a distance between any two of the first set of candidate service requests may be less than a threshold (e.g., 500 meters). Similarly the processing engine  112  may select a second set of candidate service requests from the plurality of candidate service requests to combine into a second request group  604 . As illustrated in  FIG. 6 -B, the processing engine  112  may select a third set of candidate service requests from the plurality of candidate service requests to combine into a third request group  608 . Other than the third request group, the processing engine  112  may find that there is a remainder service request  606 . After the processing engine  112  determines the request group(s) and the remainder service request(s), the processing engine  112  may direct a display to display a requestor identity and/or a pick-up location identity relating to the request group(s) and the remainder service request(s). 
       FIGS. 7 -A and  7 -B are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary user interface  700  for displaying a requestor identity according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The user interface  700  may be on the provider terminal  140  or a display (e.g., a screen in a vehicle corresponding to the service provider) associated with the service provider. As illustrated in  FIG. 7 -A, the provider status is “waiting for passenger” (also referred to as an “arrived status”), that is, the service provider has arrived at a pick-up location “Exit of Harlem-125th Street Metro Station”. “Please wait 02:59” refers to that the service provider may wait for the passenger(s) within the time period. When the service provider is on the way to pick up the requestors, the processing engine  112  may dynamically compare a distance between a location of the service provider and a start location of a service request, and when the distance is less than a threshold (150 meters), the processing engine  112  may highlight the requestor identity on the user interface  700 . It may be seen that the user interface  700  includes a map on which the location of the provider and/or the start location(s) of the service request(s) may be displayed. 
     As illustrated in  FIG. 7 -A, it may be seen that there are three service requests including a service request A corresponding to a requestor A, a service request B corresponding to a requestor B, and a service request C corresponding to a requestor C. For service request A, the processing engine  112  may display a requestor identity A on the user interface  700 . The requestor identity A may include a head image A of the requestor A, a telephone number section “TEL.1234”, and a distance A (e.g., 0.1 km) between a start location A and the location of the service provider. For service request B, the processing engine  112  may display a requestor identity B on the user interface  700 . The requestor identity B may include a head image B of the requestor B, a telephone number section “TEL.5678”, and a distance B (e.g., 1.0 km) between a start location B and the location of the service provider. For service request C, the processing engine  112  may display a requestor identity C on the user interface  700 . The requestor identity C may include a head image C of the requestor C, a telephone number section “TEL.2468”, and a distance C (e.g., nearby) between a start location C and the location of the service provider. As used herein, “nearby” refers to that the distance C may be less than a threshold (e.g., 50 meters), and at the moment the processing engine  112  may highlight the head image C which may assist the service provider to identify the requestor C. For example, the processing engine  112  may provide an icon “{circle around (1)}” besides the head image C. Similarly, the processing engine  112  may highlight the head image A to assist the service provider to identify the requestor A. 
     As illustrated in  FIG. 7 -B, after the requestor A and/or the requestor C has got on the vehicle, the processing engine  112  may the provider terminal  140  to display a corresponding requestor status button (e.g., “Done”, also referred to as a pick-up icon) and the service provider may activate (e.g., press) the button which indicates that the requestor A and/or the requestor C has been picked up. In some embodiments, the processing engine  112  may direct the provider terminal  140  to display an effect to the requestor status button. The effect may include highlighting the pick-up icon, twinkling the pick-up icon, changing a size of the pick-up icon, blurring the pick-up icon, blurring a background of the pick-up icon, fading the background of the pick-up icon, or the like, or a combination thereof. After receiving an instruction relating to pressing the button, the processing engine  112  may modify the requestor status of the requestor A and/or the requestor status of the requestor C from a not-yet-picked-up status to a picked-up status (e.g., “On board”). And then the processing engine  112  may change the color of the head image A and/or the color of the head image C from grey to black-and-white (or from hazy to clear). After the service provider picks up the requestor A and the requestor C at the pick-up location “Exit of Harlem-125th Street Metro Station”, the service provider may slide a slider “Leaving” from left to right which indicates that the service provider is leaving the pick-up location “Exit of Harlem-125th Street Metro Station”. After receiving an instruction relating to sliding the slider, the processing engine  112  may modify the provider status of the service provider from an arrived status to a left status. 
       FIGS. 8 -A through  8 -D are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary user interface  800  for displaying a pick-up location identity according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. 
     As illustrated in  FIG. 8 -A, on the map,  802  refers to the start location A of service request A,  804  refers to the start location B of service request B, and  806  refers to the start locations C of service request C. The processing engine  112  may determine that distances AC, AB, and BC are all less than a threshold (e.g., 500 meters). Under this situation, the processing engine  112  may combine service request A, service request B, and service request C as a request group and display a pick-up location identity of the request group. 
     As illustrated in  FIG. 8 -B, the processing engine  112  may gather the head image A, the head image B, and the head image C together as an image group. Further, as illustrated in  FIG. 8 -C, the processing engine  112  may shrink the gathered head images (or the image group) gradually and then hide it, and provide a textbox on the user interface  800 . As illustrated in  FIG. 8 -D, the processing engine  112  may display the pick-up location identity as an address of the pick-up location of the request group (e.g., “Exit of 125 St Metro Station”) and the number of the requestors corresponding to the request group (e.g., “3 passengers”) in the textbox. Further, the processing engine  112  may enlarge the textbox dynamically to notify the service provider the pick-up location and the number of requestors. 
       FIGS. 9 -A through  9 -F are schematic diagrams illustrating an exemplary user interface  900  for modifying a service status of a request group according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As illustrated in  FIG. 9 -A, the service provider has accepted a request group including a service request A corresponding to a requestor A, a service request B corresponding to a requestor B, a service request C corresponding to a requestor C, and a service request D corresponding to a requestor D. The service provider has arrived at a pick-up location (e.g., “Exit of Central Park North (110 St) Metro Station”) to pick up the requestor A, the requestor B, the requestor C, and the requestor D. The processing engine  112  may display requestor identities (e.g., the head image A, the head image B, the head image C, and the head image D) corresponding to the requestor A, the requestor B, the requestor C, and the requestor D on the user interface  900 . It may be supposed that the requestor A, the requestor B, and the requestor C have been picked up, and the requestor D has not been picked up. In order to modify the service status of the request group, the service provider may mark the requestor D (e.g., clicking the head image D) and modify the requestor statuses of the requestor A, the requestor B, and the requestor C simultaneously from not-yet-picked-up statuses to picked-up statuses by sliding a predetermined control slider “Leaving”. During the sliding process, as illustrated in  FIG. 9 -B,  FIG. 9 -C, and  FIG. 9 -D, the head image A, the head image B, and the head image C may be enlarged and/or colored (not shown) in order from left to right, then back to original size in order. Via the sliding, the processing engine  112  may modify the provider status from an arrived status to a left status simultaneously. During the sliding process, if the service provider wishes to undo the process, as illustrated in  FIG. 9 -E, the service provider may slide the slider from right to left, the head image A, the head image B, and the head image C may be changed from colored to white-and-black in order from right to left. As illustrated in  FIG. 9 -F, until the service provider slides the slider to the right edge, the processing engine  112  may hide the head images and display a next pick-up location (e.g., “next station 5th Ave”). 
     In some embodiments, under the same situation, in order to modify the service status of the request group, the service provider may mark the requestor A, the requestor B, and the requestor C, for example, by clicking the head image A, the head image B, and the head image C, and modify the requestor statuses of requestor A, requestor B, and requestor C simultaneously from not-yet-picked-up statuses to picked-up statuses by sliding the predetermined control slider “Leaving”. 
     It should be noted that the operations (e.g., pressing, sliding) performed on the user interface  700 , the user interface  800 , or the user interface  900  by the service provider are only provided for illustration purposes, and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. For ordinary person in the art, any operation (e.g., clicking, double-clicking, pulling-down) is applicable in the disclosure. Further, it should be noted that the thresholds mentioned in this disclosure may be default settings of the on-demand service system  100 , or may be adjusted by a user (e.g., a requestor, a service provider). 
     Having thus described the basic concepts, it may be rather apparent to those skilled in the art after reading this detailed disclosure that the foregoing detailed disclosure is intended to be presented by way of example only and is not limiting. Various alterations, improvements, and modifications may occur and are intended to those skilled in the art, though not expressly stated herein. These alterations, improvements, and modifications are intended to be suggested by this disclosure, and are within the spirit and scope of the exemplary embodiments of this disclosure. 
     Moreover, certain terminology has been used to describe embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, the terms “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” and/or “some embodiments” mean that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure. Therefore, it is emphasized and should be appreciated that two or more references to “an embodiment,” “one embodiment,” or “an alternative embodiment” in various portions of this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures or characteristics may be combined as suitable in one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. 
     Further, it will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the present disclosure may be illustrated and described herein in any of a number of patentable classes or context including any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. Accordingly, aspects of the present disclosure may be implemented entirely hardware, entirely software (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or combining software and hardware implementation that may all generally be referred to herein as a “block,” “module,” “engine,” “unit,” “component,” or “system.” Furthermore, aspects of the present disclosure may take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more computer readable media having computer readable program code embodied thereon. 
     A computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated signal may take any of a variety of forms, including electro-magnetic, optical, or the like, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that may communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. Program code embodied on a computer readable signal medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, or the like, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. 
     Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, Scala, Smalltalk, Eiffel, JADE, Emerald, C++, C #, VB. NET, Python or the like, conventional procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language, Visual Basic, Fortran 1703, Perl, COBOL 1702, PHP, ABAP, dynamic programming languages such as Python, Ruby and Groovy, or other programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user&#39;s computer, partly on the user&#39;s computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user&#39;s computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user&#39;s computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider) or in a cloud computing environment or offered as a service such as a software as a service (SaaS). 
     Furthermore, the recited order of processing elements or sequences, or the use of numbers, letters, or other designations therefore, is not intended to limit the claimed processes and methods to any order except as may be specified in the claims. Although the above disclosure discusses through various examples what is currently considered to be a variety of useful embodiments of the disclosure, it is to be understood that such detail is solely for that purpose, and that the appended claims are not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, are intended to cover modifications and equivalent arrangements that are within the spirit and scope of the disclosed embodiments. For example, although the implementation of various components described above may be embodied in a hardware device, it may also be implemented as a software-only solution—e.g., an installation on an existing server or mobile device. 
     Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of embodiments of the present disclosure, various features are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure aiding in the understanding of one or more of the various embodiments. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed subject matter requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, claimed subject matter may lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment.