Facilitating entering location data

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APP PUB NO 20050227704A1
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10810850

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There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for service improvement techniques for a transportation service provider using mobile devices. In one aspect there is received user-entered data for at least one field present in a provided electronic form. The form includes a link that, when activated, establishes a voice channel between the passenger and a customer representative and provides a unique identifier associated with the user-entered data that enables a customer representative to retrieve the user-entered data. In another aspect, there is a graphical representation that is transmitted to a customer or a driver to facilitate execution of a reservation of a transportation service to be provided to the customer by the driver. In another aspect, there is a location range received from a wireless handheld device associated with a driver and data received from the driver indicative of a more accurate location within the location range.

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FMR CORP82 DEVONSHIRE STREET BOSTON MA 02109

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ferra, Joseph Dover, MA 3 141
Kalinichenko, Boris Jamaica Plain, MA 11 400

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