US 9,285,231 B2 · Providing transit information

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining transit routes through crowd-sourcing, for determining an estimated time of arrival (ETA) of a vehicle of the transit route at a given location, and for providing predictive reminders to a user for catching a vehicle of the transit route. A server receives signal source information about wireless signal sources detected by user devices, including information about a first wireless signal source detected by some devices. The server determines that the first wireless signal source is moving. The server determines that the first wireless signal source is associated with a public transit route upon determining that the signal source information satisfies one or more selection criteria. The server stores information associating the first wireless signal source with the public transit route as transit movement data corresponding to the public transit route.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

detecting, by a user device, a plurality of first indications associating a first wireless signal source with a first location;
receiving, by the user device and from a location server, a plurality of second indications that the first wireless signal source is moving;
determining, by the user device, that each of a number of the first indications and a number of the second indications satisfies a respective significance threshold;
in response to the determining, designating the first location as a location that is significant to a user of the user device and the first wireless signal source as associated with a transit route that is significant to the user;
and
adding the first location and the transit route to a state model that includes one or more states each representing a stationary location designated as significant to the user and one or more transitions between states each representing a movement of the user between locations.

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A non-transitory storage device storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

detecting, by a user device, a plurality of first indications associating a first wireless signal source with a first location;
receiving, by the user device and from a location server, a plurality of second indications that the first wireless signal source is moving;
determining, by the user device, that each of a number of the first indications and a number of the second indications satisfies a respective significance threshold;
in response to the determining, designating the first location as a location that is significant to a user of the user device and the first wireless signal source as associated with a transit route that is significant to the user;
and
adding the first location and the transit route to a state model that includes one or more states each representing a stationary location designated as significant to the user and one or more transitions between states each representing a movement of the user between locations.

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A system comprising:

one or more first processors;
and
a first storage device storing first instructions that, when executed by the one or more first processors, cause the one or more first processors to perform operations comprising:
detecting, by a user device, a plurality of first indications associating a first wireless signal source with a first location;
receiving, by the user device and from a location server, a plurality of second indications that the first wireless signal source is moving;
determining, by the user device, that each of a number of the first indications and a number of the second indications satisfies a respective significance threshold;
in response to the determining, designating the first location as a location that is significant to a user of the user device and the first wireless signal source as associated with a transit route that is significant to the user;
and
adding the first location and the transit route to a state model that includes one or more states each representing a stationary location designated as significant to the user and one or more transitions between states each representing a movement of the user between locations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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