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US 2014/0278092 A1Published application
System and method for vehicle routing using monetary cost
Assignee8318808 Canada Inc.
InventorsNeeraj Garg, Anil Bhole
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Abstract
A vehicle routing system and method in which routing is based in part on the monetary cost of various candidate routes. The candidate route that has a monetary cost less than a user determined cost parameter is selected as the route to be presented to the user.
Claims20
A vehicle routing system comprising:
- a) a user interface operable to collect from a user
- i. a start point and end point for which a route is requested;
- and
- ii. a cost parameter for said user;
- b) a routing database comprising toll information for routes in a territory;
- and
- c) a routing engine operable to determine one or more candidate routes between the start point and the end point and select the route from among the candidate routes by determining which of said candidate routes has a monetary cost lower than said cost parameter.
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A method for vehicle routing system comprising:
- a) collecting from a user:
- i. a start point and end point for which a route is requested;
- and
- ii. a cost parameter for said user;
- b) determining, from a routing database comprising toll information for routes in a territory, one or more candidate routes between the start point and the end point;
- and
- c) selecting, by one or more processors, the route from among the candidate routes by determining which of said candidate routes has a monetary cost lower than said cost parameter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.