Technical solutions for customized tours
AssigneeWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
InventorsWalter Klappert, Daniel Ferguson
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for configuring a customized tour includes providing a list of tour subject indicators with a relevance value for locations to be toured, receiving user selection data regarding the subject indicators, and configuring a tour route based on an aggregate relevance score calculated for the tour subject indicators and locations indicated by one or more users. The method and apparatus may further include defining at least one tour route record comprising an ordered list of locations that satisfies at least a minimum aggregate relevance score constraint and a maximum tour duration constraint and saving information defining the at least one tour route record in a computer memory for use in delivering a corresponding tour.
Claims41
A computer-implemented method for configuring a customized tour of a mapped space, the method comprising:
- providing, by one or more processors, an ordered arrangement of tour subject indicators configured for output by a user interface device, wherein each of the tour subject indicators is associated by an electronic data structure to a relevance value for one or more locations of the mapped space and to content about a subject indicated by the tour subject indicator for delivery at corresponding ones of the one or more locations, wherein the relevance value indicates a degree of relevance of each location of the one or more locations to the each of the tour subjects;
- receiving, by the one or more processors from the user interface device, user selection data from a user indicating a lesser subset selected from the ordered arrangement of tour subject indicators;
- calculating, by the one or more processors, an aggregate relevance score for the lesser subset of tour subject indicators and locations of the mapped space;
- defining, by the one or more processors, at least one tour route record comprising an ordered list of locations being a lesser subset of all locations in the mapped space that satisfies at least a minimum aggregate relevance score constraint and a maximum tour duration constraint;
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- saving information defining the at least one tour route record in a computer memory for use in delivering a corresponding tour.
An apparatus for configuring a customized tour of a mapped space, the apparatus comprising at least one processor coupled to a memory, the memory holding program instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the apparatus to perform:
- providing an ordered arrangement of tour subject indicators configured for output by a user interface device, wherein each of the tour subject indicators is associated by an electronic data structure to a relevance value for one or more locations of the mapped space and to content about a subject indicated by the tour subject indicator for delivery at corresponding ones of the one or more locations, wherein the relevance value indicates a degree of relevance of each location of the one or more locations to the each of the tour subjects;
- receiving user selection data from a user indicating a lesser subset selected from the ordered arrangement of tour subject indicators;
- calculating an aggregate relevance score for the lesser subset of tour subject indicators and locations of the mapped space;
- defining at least one tour route record comprising an ordered list of locations being a lesser subset of all locations in the mapped space that satisfies at least a minimum aggregate relevance score constraint and a maximum tour duration constraint;
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- saving information defining the at least one tour route record in the memory for use in delivering a corresponding tour.
An apparatus for configuring a customized tour of a mapped space, the apparatus comprising:
- means for providing an ordered arrangement of tour subject indicators configured for output by a user interface device, wherein each of the tour subject indicators is associated by an electronic data structure to a relevance value for one or more locations of the mapped space and to content about a subject indicated by the tour subject indicator for delivery at corresponding ones of the one or more locations, wherein the relevance value indicates a degree of relevance of each location of the one or more locations to the each of the tour subjects;
- means for receiving user selection data from a user indicating a lesser subset selected from the ordered arrangement of tour subject indicators;
- means for calculating an aggregate relevance score for the lesser subset of tour subject indicators and locations of the mapped space;
- means for defining at least one tour route record comprising an ordered list of locations being a lesser subset of all locations in the mapped space that satisfies at least a minimum aggregate relevance score constraint and a maximum tour duration constraint;
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- means for saving information defining the at least one tour route record in the memory for use in delivering a corresponding tour.
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