System and Method For Presenting a Computed Route
First Claim
1. A method for presenting a route, the method comprising:
- receiving a starting point and a destination point;
computing a route from the starting point to the destination point, wherein the computed route comprises a route segment;
determining, based on a user'"'"'s travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment;
identifying a road that is familiar to the user, based on the user'"'"'s travel history, and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment; and
presenting the computed route and the familiar road relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route.
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Abstract
A method for presenting a route includes receiving a starting point and a destination point and computing a route that includes a route segment between the two points. The method further includes determining, based on a user'"'"'s travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment, and identifying, based on the user'"'"'s travel history, a road that is familiar to the user and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment. The computed route and the familiar road are then presented in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route, and the familiar road is represented relative to the unfamiliar segment.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for presenting a route, the method comprising:
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receiving a starting point and a destination point;
computing a route from the starting point to the destination point, wherein the computed route comprises a route segment;
determining, based on a user'"'"'s travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment;
identifying a road that is familiar to the user, based on the user'"'"'s travel history, and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment; and
presenting the computed route and the familiar road relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A device for presenting a route, the device comprising:
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means for receiving a starting point and a destination point;
means configured to compute a route from the starting point to the destination point, the route comprising a route segment;
means for determining whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment based on a user'"'"'s travel history;
means for identifying a road that is familiar to the user and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment; and
means for presenting the computed route and the familiar road relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A device for presenting a route, the device comprising:
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a user interface for receiving a starting point and a destination point;
a routing module configured to compute a route from the starting point to the destination point, the route comprising a route segment, to determine whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment based on the user'"'"'s travel history, and to identify a road that is familiar to the user and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment; and
a display that presents the computed route and the familiar road relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer readable medium containing programming instructions for presenting a route, the programming instructions for:
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receiving a starting point and a destination point;
computing a route from the starting point to the destination point, wherein the computed route comprises a route segment;
determining, based on the user'"'"'s travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment;
identifying a road that is familiar to the user, based on the user'"'"'s travel history, and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment; and
presenting the computed route and the familiar road relative to the unfamiliar segment in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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