Method and system for providing related navigation features for two or more end users
AssigneeNavigation Technologies Corp.
InventorsJean K. Ohler, Richard Robinson, Brian Walton
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Abstract
A feature provided by a navigation system or a navigation services provider provides navigation-related services for plural users who have related needs. In one embodiment, a first user specifies a type of place at which to meet a second user who is at a location some distance away from the first user. The navigation feature identifies one or more places of the specified type that are convenient for both users to travel to. The navigation feature may also provide the users with instructions for traveling to a selected place.
Claims18
A method of operation for a computer-based system that provides navigation-related services, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for navigation-related services, wherein the request is for a common meeting place at which it would be convenient for at least two users to meet, wherein said at least two users are located at different locations;
- determining the common meeting place such that travel times for each of said at least two users to said common meeting place are approximately equal;
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- identifying the common meeting place to at least one of the users.
A method of operation for a computer-based system that provides navigation-related services, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for a meeting place that is approximately equal driving time for each of two users to reach by car;
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- providing a list of potential meeting places that are approximately equal driving time for each of said two users to reach by car.
A system that provides navigation services comprising:
- a place search program run on a computer system and that finds one or more places of a specified type at which it would be convenient for two persons starting from different locations to meet such that travel times for each of said two persons to said one or more places of the specified type are approximately equal;
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- a route calculation program that determines a first route for a first of the two persons to travel from a starting location of the first person to a destination selected from the one or more places of the specified type found by the place search program and a second route for a second of the two persons to travel from a starting location of the second person to the destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.