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US 7,689,349 B1Granted
Automatic determination of a surrogate origin for personalized routing
AssigneeAOL Inc.
InventorsDavid W. Nesbitt, G. Duane Gearhart, Michael Dean Swartz
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Abstract
A surrogate origin is substituted for a user-entered or system-determined origin, and maneuvers for a route from the surrogate origin to a destination are determined and presented to the user as driving directions. A surrogate origin may be pre-selected or pre-configured for a user identity.
Claims15
A method, performed at least partially on a computer, for enabling display of a route, the method comprising:
- storing a surrogate origin in a computer storage medium in response to a user identification of the surrogate origin;
- receiving an origin;
- accessing mapping information stored in a computer storage medium;
- identifying the surrogate origin stored in response to the user identification of the surrogate origin as a surrogate origin for the received origin;
- determining a route from the identified surrogate origin to a destination;
- and
- enabling display of the determined route.
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A method, performed at least partially on a computer, the method comprising:
- receiving an origin;
- accessing mapping information stored in a computer storage medium;
- identifying a surrogate origin for the received origin, wherein identifying the surrogate origin for the received origin comprises enabling a requestor of directions to identify the surrogate origin;
- and
- using the mapping information to determine a route from the surrogate origin to a destination.
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A method, performed at least partially on a computer, the method comprising:
- receiving an origin;
- accessing mapping information stored in a computer storage medium;
- generating a set of maneuvers to be executed to traverse a route from the received origin to the destination;
- enabling identification of a surrogate origin for the received origin through inspection of the set of maneuvers generated;
- identifying the surrogate origin for the received origin;
- and
- using the mapping information to determine a route from the surrogate origin to a destination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.