Method and apparatus for providing travel related information to a user

• US 20060129310A1
• Filed: 05/15/2003
• Published: 06/15/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Tarrant, David R., Thorne, Nicholas D.L.
• Application Number:
  US10/514,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20060129310A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3641 Personalized guidance, e.g. limited guidance on previously travelled routes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096888 where input information is obtained using learning systems, e.g. history databases

Abstract

A method of providing travel related information to a user is disclosed together with corresponding apparatus for the same. The method comprising the steps of recording a history of journeys undertaken by the user, determining a current journey of the user, identifying one or more recorded journeys which correlate with the current journey; and providing travel related information to the user relating to that or those recorded journeys.

Claims

1. A method of providing travel related information to a user comprising the steps of:

recording a history of journeys undertaken by the user;

determining a current journey of the user;

identifying one or more recorded journeys which correlate with the current journey; and

providing travel related information to the user relating to that or those recorded journeys.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the travel related information includes the name of a location at the start, along or at the end of a recorded journey

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein the travel related information includes at least part of a recorded, traffic information broadcast selectively provided to the user based on that or those recorded journeys which correlate with the current journey.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein the recorded history includes routes of previous journeys, and wherein the travel related information is provided based on that or those recorded journeys for which the route correlates with the current journey.

5. A method according to claim 1 wherein the recorded history includes the timing of previous journeys, and wherein the travel related information is provided based on that or those recorded journeys for which the timing correlates with the current journey.

6. A method according to claim 5 wherein, in identifying one or more recorded journeys which correlate with the current journey, a distinction is made between weekday and weekend journeys.

7. A method according to claim 1 wherein the recorded history includes the number of people who travelled in a vehicle during previous journeys, and wherein the travel related information based on that or those recorded journeys for which the number of people travelling in the vehicle correlates with the current journey.

8. A method according to claim 7 wherein the number of people travelling in the vehicle is determined by sensors related to seats in the vehicle such as seatbelt fastened sensors.

9. Apparatus for providing travel related information to a user comprising:

means for recording a history of journeys undertaken by the user;

means for determining a current journey of the user;

means for identifying one or more recorded journeys which correlate with the current journey; and

means for providing travel related information to the user relating to that or those recorded journeys.

10. Apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the travel related information includes the name of a location at the start, along or at the end of a recorded journey

12. Apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the recorded history includes routes of previous journeys, and wherein the travel related information is provided based on that or those recorded journeys for which the route correlates with the current journey.

13. Apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the recorded history includes the timing of previous journeys, and wherein the travel related information is provided based on that or those recorded journeys for which the timing correlates with the current journey.

14. Apparatus according to claim 13 wherein, in identifying one or more recorded journeys which correlate with the current journey, a distinction is made between weekday and weekend journeys.

15. Apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the recorded history includes the number of people who travelled in a vehicle during previous journeys, and wherein the travel related information based on that or those recorded journeys for which the number of people travelling in the vehicle correlates with the current journey.

11. Apparatus according to claim 11 wherein the travel related information includes at least part of a recorded, traffic information broadcast selectively provided to the user based on that or those recorded journeys which correlate with the current journey.