Navigation via short message service
AssigneeCA, Inc.
InventorsSurya Kiran Satyavarapu, Prashant Singh
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Abstract
A method includes determining a user origination point and a destination point using a message received from a client device associated with a user, the message being transmitted over an Short Message Service (SMS) protocol. The method further includes determining a route between the user origination point and the destination point, the route comprising a plurality of instructions to direct the user from the user origination point to a checkpoint along the route. The method further includes formatting the plurality of instructions for display in an SMS messaging application on the client device. The method further includes transmitting the formatted plurality of instructions over the SMS protocol to the client device.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining, using one or more processors, a user origination point and a destination point using a message received from a client device associated with a user, the message being transmitted over an Short Message Service (SMS) protocol;
- determining, using one or more processors, a route between the user origination point and the destination point, the route comprising a plurality of instructions to direct the user from the user origination point to a checkpoint along the route;
- formatting, using one or more processors, the plurality of instructions for display in an SMS messaging application on the client device;
- and
- transmitting, using one or more processors, the formatted plurality of instructions over the SMS protocol to the client device.
A computer configured to access a storage device, the computer comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the computer to perform:
- determining a user origination point and a destination point using a message received from a client device associated with a user, the message being transmitted over an Short Message Service (SMS) protocol;
- determining a route between the user origination point and the destination point, the route comprising a plurality of instructions to direct the user from the user origination point to a checkpoint along the route, wherein the plurality of instructions comprise (1) an azimuth between a current direction of the user and the checkpoint and (2) a distance between the user origination point and the checkpoint;
- formatting the plurality of instructions for display in an SMS messaging application on the client device;
- and
- transmitting the formatted plurality of instructions over the SMS protocol to the client device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computing system to perform operations comprising:
- determining a user origination point and a destination point using a message received from a client device associated with a user, the message being transmitted over an Short Message Service (SMS) protocol;
- determining a route between the user origination point and the destination point, the route comprising a plurality of instructions to direct the user from the user origination point to a checkpoint along the route, wherein the plurality of instructions comprise (1) an azimuth between a current direction of the user and the checkpoint and (2) a distance between the user origination point and the checkpoint;
- formatting the plurality of instructions for display in an SMS messaging application on the client device;
- and
- transmitting the formatted plurality of instructions over the SMS protocol to the client device, wherein transmitting the formatted plurality of instructions comprises:
- sending a plurality of SMS messages to the client device, each of the SMS messages comprising a respective portion of the plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions comprising directions for navigating between two consecutive checkpoints in a series of checkpoints along the route, the series of checkpoints comprising the checkpoint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.