Uber Technologies, Inc.
NETWORK SYSTEM TO DETERMINE OPERATIONAL STATES OF VEHICLES

Abstract:

A network system coordinates transport service between service providers operating transportation vehicles and service requestors operating client devices in a system environment. A transportation vehicle includes a processor or computing device that can determine and change operational states of the transportation vehicle. The transportation vehicle communicates the operational states to one or more devices. The operational states can be communicated as vehicle datasets using a communication port of the transportation vehicle. The network system and client devices can act to enhance transport service using vehicle datasets. For example, the network system can select a particular service provider to provide transport service to a service requestor based on the vehicle dataset for the transportation vehicle operated by the particular service provider. Transport service can also be enhanced at various points during the transport service coordination using other methods.