Patent ID: 8566214

Claim:
A method for generating a table for display with information of reverse auction services for picking up passengers, the method comprising: in response to receiving, from a communications device, geographical location information of an origination location of a passenger and a destination location in a request for transportation to pick up the passenger, and in response to receiving bids to the request for transportation to pick up the passenger, generating the table to transmit to the passenger on the communications device, the table generated with columns and rows for display on the communications device; generating an arrival time to passenger column listing individual times required for each of respective bidders to reach the passenger at the origination location for pickup in the table; generating a respective bidders column listing each of the respective bidders in the table; generating a respective distance away column for each of the respective bidders to display a distance of the respective bidders from the passenger at the origination location for pickup; generating the individual times for the respective bidders to reach the passenger in minutes in the arrival time to passenger column of the table transmitted to the passenger; in the table, visually positioning for display the individual times to reach the passenger in the arrival time to passenger column adjacent to each of the respective bidders in the respective bidders column bidding to pick up the passenger, such that each of the individual times to reach the passenger at the origination location is adjacent to names of the respective bidders desiring to pick up the passenger; and providing the table to allow the passenger to make selections from the table.