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Real-time path suggestion for a location-enabled mobile device

  • US 10,455,360 B2
  • Filed: 10/31/2018
  • Issued: 10/22/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for navigating based on directionality, comprising:

  • determining a position of a mobile device and a current location of the mobile device based on the position;

    identifying a first plurality of destinations associated with the current location of the mobile device;

    identifying a destination type of each of the first plurality of destinations;

    determining that a number of the first plurality of destinations is greater than a threshold;

    in response to the determination that the number of the first plurality of destinations is greater than the threshold, combining each of the first plurality of destinations having the same destination type into a destination group, wherein the destination group is represented as a single combined destination;

    determining a path from the mobile device to the destination group;

    displaying, at the mobile device, a single representation of the destination group;

    displaying, at the mobile device, the path to the destination groupdetermining that the mobile device is within a threshold distance of the destination group;

    in response to the determination that the mobile device is within the threshold distance of the destination group, dividing the destination group into a second plurality of destinations; and

    displaying, at the mobile device, a separate representation of each of the second plurality of destinations.

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