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US 2009/0157292 A1Published application
System and method for providing shared information about traveled road segments
AssigneeDash Navigation, Inc.
InventorsRobert Currie, Assimakis Tzamaloukas
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Abstract
A system and method splices into, or replaces routes identified based on road geometry with routes taken by the same user or other users to create alternate routes that may be selected by a user to display, for example, on a map or for which driving directions can be displayed. Communication of routes traveled by different devices may be received from a server or from another device. A naming convention for road segments and ordered paths of road segments is described.
Claims7
A method of identifying road segments most heavily used by a plurality of users for at least one reason, comprising:
- receiving from each of the plurality of different of different devices an indication of a path comprising a plurality of contiguous road segments;
- identifying at least one reason from among a plurality of reasons why a user of said device is believed to have traveled the path;
- for each of said indications received, recording a vote that indicates that each of a plurality of portions of each path was traveled for the reason received;
- identifying a plurality of portions having a higher number of votes for at least one of the plurality of reasons.
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