Estimating journey destination based on popularity factors
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsDavid Frank Russell Weir, Roger Melen
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Abstract
The disclosure includes technology for estimating journey destinations based on crow-sourced popularity factors. The technology includes an example system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive location data; determine a current route associated with a user based on the location data; determine one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors; estimate one or more destination estimations along the current route based on the one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors; and suggest the one or more destination estimations to the user.
Claims18
A computer-implemented networked method comprising:
- receiving location data from one or more of a geolocation determination device and a computing device configured to provide a location-related information signal;
- determining a current route associated with a user based on the location data;
- determining a set of potential destinations;
- determining one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- clustering one or more popular destinations from the potential destinations of the set into two or more different destination regions along the current route based on the one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- determining that the user is traveling toward a first destination region from among the two or more destination regions;
- estimating one or more refined destinations within the first destination region based on the one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- and
- suggesting the one or more refined destinations to the user.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
- receive location data from one or more of a geolocation determination device and a computing device configured to provide a location-related information signal;
- determine a set of potential destinations;
- determine a current route associated with a user based on the location data;
- determine one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- cluster one or more popular destinations from the potential destinations of the set into two or more different destination regions along the current route based on the one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- and
- determine that the user is traveling toward a first destination region from among the two or more destination regions;
- estimate one or more refined destinations within the first destination region based on the one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- and
- suggest the one or more refined destinations to the user.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to:
- receive location data from one or more of a geolocation determination device and a computing device configured to provide a location-related information signal;
- determine a set of potential destinations;
- determine a current route associated with a user based on the location data;
- determine one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- cluster one or more popular destinations from the potential destinations of the set into two or more different destination regions along the current route based on the one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- determine that the user is traveling toward a first destination region from among the two or more destination regions;
- estimate one or more refined destinations within the first destination region based on the one or more crowd-sourced popularity factors;
- and
- suggest the one or more refined destinations to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.