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Coordinating and providing navigation for a group of people traveling together in a transport hub

  • US 10,346,773 B2
  • Filed: 05/12/2017
  • Issued: 07/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method to assist people traveling together through a transport hub, said method comprising:

  • identifying, by a plurality of portable smart computing devices, a group of people traveling together through the transport hub for a trip, wherein travel data for the group includes a departure location, a boarding time, and a departure vehicle, wherein each person of the group has possession of a single portable computing device of the plurality of portable computing devices;

    identifying, by the plurality of portable smart computing devices, transport hub data corresponding to the transport hub, wherein the transport hub data includes of maps or layout data of the transport hub;

    providing access, by the plurality of portable smart computing devices, to personal data for members of the group, wherein the personal data includes data independently selected, for each person, from the group consisting of the person'"'"'s health, the person'"'"'s lifting ability, the person'"'"'s ability to pull or carry luggage, the person'"'"'s endurance, the person'"'"'s ability to walk through the transport hub, and combinations thereof;

    mapping, by each person'"'"'s portable smart computing device, a preferred route from a current location at which the group is located for each person to travel through the transport hub, wherein the preferred route is a direct route without stops or a route including one or more preferred stops;

    selecting from the mapped preferred routes, by the plurality of portable computing devices, a group route which is route to be commonly used by each person of the group, wherein the selected group route is the mapped preferred route of one portable computing device of the plurality of portable computing devices, wherein each person'"'"'s portable computing device mapped a preferred route for each previous trip of a plurality of previous trips by the group, and wherein said selecting the one portable computing device is based on the preferred route for the one portable computing device have been a group route for more of the previous trips than was the preferred route for any other portable computing device of the plurality of portable computing devices;

    generating, by each person'"'"'s portable smart computing device, sub-groups of members to travel through the transport hub together in response to matching personal data;

    monitoring, by each person'"'"'s portable smart computing device, values including the personal data for members of the group, the travel data for the group, and the transport hub data; and

    alerting each person, by each person'"'"'s portable smart computing device, in response to the monitored values, to begin moving from the current location towards the departure location along the selected group route to arrive at the departure location at a desired arrival time.

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