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Providing augmented travel directions

US8862385B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 8, 2008
Grant dateOct 14, 2014
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Expiry dateJun 27, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01C21/34
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Providing machine-generated travel directions with customized augmentations to enhance the navigation process. To provide machine-generated travel directions, a user submitted starting location, destination location, and meta-data associated with the user is used to generate a route between the starting location and destination location Annotations to the route are derived based on the meta-data associated with the user or characteristics associated with the route. The annotations are then ranked according to a determined priority. The route generated between the starting location and the destination location, and augmented with the ranked annotations, is displayed to the user.

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