Navigation to dynamic endpoint
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsEran Yariv, Gur Kimchi, Barney Darryl Pell, Yair E. Gheva, Brian Beckman, Elad Ben-Israel
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsEran Yariv, Gur Kimchi, Barney Darryl Pell, Yair E. Gheva, Brian Beckman, Elad Ben-Israel
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Turn-by-turn directions can guide a user to a dynamic destination, such as a person or a rendezvous location. The turn-by-turn directions enable one user to follow another or, alternatively, multiple people to rendezvous with each other. The selection can be via identifiers used in network contexts, such as social networking Individuals can select the circumstances under which their location can be revealed. Turn-by-turn directions enabling following utilize anticipated locations or predictions of likely destinations based on historical and contextual information. Turn-by-turn directions enabling rendezvous reference a rendezvous location, which is either the same for all users, or which differs among them. Also, the directions can reference intermediate, “staging”, locations from which further intermediate, or ultimate, destinations can be routed to.
One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions for providing, to a user, turn-by-turn directions to a dynamic target destination, the computer-executable instructions directed to steps comprising:
A navigation-capable computing device comprising:
A system for providing, to a user, turn-by-turn directions to a dynamic target destination, the system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.