Method and apparatus for vehicle-based data gathering
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsPerry Robinson MacNeille, Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, Yimin Liu, Mark Schunder
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Abstract
A computer implemented method includes accessing a list containing one or more items for purchase. The method further includes receiving a vehicle location. The method also includes searching for one or more stores within a predefined distance of the vehicle location, which sell at least one item from the list, and the prices those stores offer. Additionally, the method includes recommending a stop at at least one of the one or more stores, and providing directions to a store for which a stop was recommended.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a desired route end-time;
- calculating time remaining until the end-time once a vehicle is within a predetermined distance-to-destination;
- searching, once the vehicle is within the predetermined distance-to-destination, for a store selling an item from a stored shopping list;
- estimating travel-time to the store;
- and
- recommending a detour to the store, based on the travel-time to the store and subsequent travel to a destination being less than the time remaining.
A system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- populate a list of stores along a predetermined route that sell products corresponding to products on a stored shopping list;
- set a stopping point along the route near a store on the list;
- determine a time-to-destination when the stopping point is reached;
- and
- recommend a detour to the store if a time-to-destination is less than an amount of time remaining before a desired arrival time.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a desired route end-time;
- calculating time remaining until the end-time once a vehicle reaches a predetermined stopping point;
- estimating travel-time to a store, associated with the predetermined stopping point, selling an item from a stored shopping list;
- and
- recommending a detour to the store, based on the travel-time to the store and subsequent travel to a destination being less than the time remaining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.