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US 8,577,598 B2Granted
System and method for presenting a computed route
AssigneeScenera Technologies, LLC
InventorMona Singh
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Abstract
A method for presenting a route includes receiving a starting point and a destination point and computing a route that includes a route segment between the two points. The method further includes determining, based on a user's travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment, and identifying, based on the user's travel history, a road that is familiar to the user. The method includes providing, in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route, the computed route and the familiar road relative to the unfamiliar segment for presentation of the familiar road within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment.
Claims26
A method for determining a route, the method comprising:
- identifying, by a user device, a plurality of locations of the user device;
- generating a user's travel history including information identifying the plurality of locations of the user device;
- receiving a starting point and a destination point;
- computing a route from the starting point to the destination point, wherein the computed route comprises a route segment;
- determining, based on a user's travel history, that the route segment does not include a location from the plurality of locations, wherein the route segment is an unfamiliar segment;
- identifying, based on the user's travel history, a location from the plurality of locations that is associated with the unfamiliar route segment;
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- providing, in a format that distinguishes the location from the computed route, the computed route and the location relative to the unfamiliar segment for presentation of the location within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment.
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A system for determining a route, the system comprising:
- a positioning system configured to track the user's position while the user is traveling to identifying, by a user device, a plurality of locations of the user device;
- a storage component configured to store a user's travel history including information identifying the plurality of locations of the user device
- a routing module configured to receive a starting point and a destination point, to compute a route from the starting point to the destination point, wherein the computed route comprises a route segment, to determine, based on a user's travel history, that the route segment does not include a location from the plurality of locations, wherein the route segment is an unfamiliar segment, to identify, based on the user's travel history, a location from the plurality of locations that is associated with the unfamiliar route segment, and to provide, in a format that distinguishes the location from the computed route, the computed route and the location relative to the unfamiliar segment for presentation of the location within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment.
A tangible computer readable storage medium containing stored programming instructions for determining a route, the programming instructions for:
- identifying, by a user device, a plurality of locations of the user device;
- generating a user's travel history including information identifying the plurality of locations of the user device;
- receiving a starting point and a destination point;
- computing a route from the starting point to the destination point, wherein the computed route comprises a route segment;
- determining, based on a user's travel history, that the route segment does not include a location from the plurality of locations, wherein the route segment is an unfamiliar segment;
- identifying, based on the user's travel history, a location from the plurality of locations that is associated with the unfamiliar route segment;
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- providing, in a format that distinguishes the location from the computed route, the computed route and the location relative to the unfamiliar segment for presentation of the location within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment.
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A method for presenting a route, the method comprising:
- identifying, by a user device, a plurality of locations of the user device;
- generating a user's travel history including information identifying the plurality of locations of the user device;
- receiving a route from a starting point to a destination point, wherein the route comprises a route segment;
- determining, based on a user's travel history, that the route segment does not include a location from the plurality of locations, wherein the route segment is an unfamiliar segment;
- determining, based on the user's travel history, a location from the plurality of locations associated with the unfamiliar segment;
- presenting the route;
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- in response to determining the location is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment, presenting the location relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the location from the route.
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A system for presenting a route, the system comprising:
- a positioning system configured to track the user's position while the user is traveling to identifying, by a user device, a plurality of locations of the user device;
- a storage component configured to store a user's travel history including information identifying the plurality of locations of the user device
- a routing module configured to receive a route from a starting point to a destination point, wherein the route comprises a route segment, to determine, based on a user's travel history, that the route segment does not include a location from the plurality of locations, wherein the route segment is an unfamiliar segment, determine, based on the user's travel history, a location from the plurality of locations that is associated with the unfamiliar segment;
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- a display configured to present the route and, in response to a determination that the location is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment, present the location relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the location from the route.
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A tangible computer readable storage medium containing stored programming instructions for determining a route, the programming instructions for:
- identifying, by a user device, a plurality of locations of the user device;
- generating a user's travel history including information identifying the plurality of locations of the user device;
- receiving a route from a starting point to a destination point, wherein the route comprises a route segment;
- determining, based on a user's travel history, that the route segment does not include a location from the plurality of locations, wherein the route segment is an unfamiliar segment;
- determining, based on the user's travel history, a location from the plurality of locations associated with the unfamiliar segment;
- presenting the route;
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- in response to determining the location is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment, presenting the location relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the location from the route.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.