US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Configuring service request interface based on processing time prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,493, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Configuring service request interface based on processing time prediction" was invented by Shenglan Qiao (San Francisco) and Amar Shibli (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network computing system receives, over one or more networks, a service request from a requester device. The network computer system predicts a processing time interval, where the processing time extends from a time when the service request is received until a time when a service provider that is selected by the network computer system accepts an invitation to fulfill th...