US 2024/0200960 A1 · USING HISTORICAL USER ROUTES TO RECOMMEND NAVIGATIONAL ROUTES

Abstract

A computing system and method that can be used for a mapping system that can recommend paths for navigational routing to a primary user. More particularly, a primary user may be interested in navigational routes that secondary users, different from the primary user, have taken in the past. The mapping systems described herein can provide improved user navigational services by leveraging the insight that users who are connected (e.g., via social media, address books, etc.) may often be interested in visiting similar points of interest. More particularly, aspects of the present disclosure enable various interactions between connected users such as following in prior users' footsteps and taking a tour according to one or more prior users' route. Alternatively, aspects of the present disclosure enable an optimization of a primary user's navigational routing by leveraging the insight that the primary user may share interests with connected secondary users. Thus, the mapping system can generate a tailored navigational routing that guides the primary user optimally to the one or more predicted points of interests based on one or more historical navigational routings by connected secondary users.

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A computer-implemented method for recommending destinations to a user, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, data descriptive of a primary user location of a primary user;
receiving, by the computing system, data descriptive of a primary user input requesting generation of a navigational routing;
receiving, by the computing system, content associated with a plurality of historical user navigational routings previously traversed by one or more secondary users that differ from the primary user, each of the plurality of historical user navigational routings comprising one or more stops;
determining, by the computing system, a proposed path for the navigational routing based at least in part on a combination of the one or more stops associated with the plurality of historical navigational routings;
and
providing, by the computing system, the proposed path for the navigational routing for display to the primary user.

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A computing system, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media that store instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
receiving, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, data descriptive of a primary user location of a primary user;
receiving, by the computing system, data descriptive of a primary user input requesting generation of a navigational routing;
receiving, by the computing system, content associated with a plurality of historical user navigational routings previously traversed by one or more secondary users that differ from the primary user, each of the plurality of historical user navigational routings comprising one or more stops;
determining, by the computing system, a proposed path for the navigational routing based at least in part on a combination of the one or more stops associated with the plurality of historical navigational routings;
and
providing, by the computing system, the proposed path for the navigational routing for display to the primary user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Using historical user routes to recommend navigational routes

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Using historical user routes to recommend navigational routes

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