PRESENTING A TRAVEL ROUTE

• US 20080147313A1
• Filed: 02/22/2008
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AOL LLC (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nesbitt, David W.
• Granted Patent: US 7,702,454 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3673 Labelling using text of road map data items, e.g. road names, POI names
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence

Abstract

Techniques are provided for presenting a route using a route presentation that provides both a context map and one or more detail route maps. Narrative instructions for the route also may be presented. The presentation of the context map and the one or more detail route maps may be interactive. The route presentation also may be user controllable such that a user may control the portions of a route that are printed. The route presentation also may include a re-routing feature that allows a user to request that a new route be identified that avoids a particular maneuver or maneuvers in a route.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for presenting a route, the method comprising:

accessing route information for a route that includes an origin location and a destination location;

generating a context map that includes the origin location, the destination location, and a route between the origin location and destination location;

generating at least one detail map, associated with the context map, that includes a portion of the route such that the detail map includes at most one of the origin location or the destination location and maneuvers that are within a predetermined distance from one another;

generating an animation of traveling the route, the animation displaying the route and at least one point of interest along the route; and

communicating the at least one detail map and the context map to a user system for concurrent presentation on a display associated with the user system, and

wherein the animation is user-controllable such that a user controls the starting and the stopping of displaying the route, and when the animation is stopped, the animation displays the at least one point of interest associated with the point of the route at which the animation is stopped.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein generating the context map comprises generating the context map to include an indication of the location of the detail map.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating narrative text associated with the route and enabling displaying of the narrative text to a user system for presentation on a display associated with the user system.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating a list of maneuvers which includes at least the maneuvers included in the detail map.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the detail map that includes a portion of the route is displayed within the context map.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the context map includes finer detail for geographic features relatively close to the route and less detail for geographic features relatively far from the route.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising enabling control of the animation based on user input of the starting and the stopping of displaying the route;

and

displaying, when the animation is stopped, the at least one point of interest associated with the point of the route at which the animation is stopped.

8. A computer-implemented method for displaying a route, the method comprising:

displaying for a route, a context map that includes an origin location, a destination location, and at least one user-selectable indicator associated with a detail map, wherein the detail map includes;

a portion of the route having at most one of the origin location or the destination location,

maneuvers are within a predetermined distance from one another, and

a user-selectable indicator associated with the context map;

accessing an indication that identifies the user-selectable indicator associated with the context map;

displaying the context map in response to the accessed indication;

displaying, concurrent with and on a single display as the context map, a detail map associated with the user-selectable indicator identified by the accessed indication;

displaying narrative text associated with the route that corresponds to a displayed detail map; and

displaying a series of detail maps and narrative text associated with each displayed detail map concurrently.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein displaying the series of detail maps and narrative text associated with each displayed detail map concurrently comprises displaying a series of detail maps and narrative text associated with each displayed detail map using commands entered by a user through an animation control.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising generating the context map to include an indication of the location of one of the at least one detail map.

11. The method of claim 8 further comprising displaying narrative text associated with the route.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprising generating a list of maneuvers which includes at least the maneuvers included in the detail map.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprising displaying, with the context map, the detail map that includes a portion of the route.

14. The method of claim 8 further comprising including, within the context map, a variable road network map showing finer detail for geographic features relatively close to the route and less detail for geographic features relatively far from the route.

15. A computer-implemented method for displaying a route, the method comprising:

displaying for a route, a context map that includes an origin location, a destination location, and at least one user-selectable indicator associated with a detail map, the detail map including a portion of the route having at most one of the origin location or the destination location and maneuvers are within a predetermined distance from one another;

accessing an indication that identifies a user-selectable indicator;

displaying, concurrent with and on a single display as the context map, a detail map associated with the user-selectable indicator identified by the accessed indication;

displaying an indication that identifies a maneuver in the route to be avoided; and

causing a second route between the origin location and the destination location to be determined such that the second route does not include the maneuver.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising displaying, within the context map, an indication of the location of the detail map.

17. The method of claim 15 further comprising generating narrative text associated with the route.

18. The method of claim 15 further comprising generating a list of maneuvers which includes at least the maneuvers included in the detail map.

19. The method of claim 15 further comprising displaying, within the context map, the detail map that includes a portion of the route.

20. The method of claim 15 further comprising including, within the context map, a variable road network map showing finer detail for geographic features relatively close to the route and less detail for geographic features relatively far from the route.

21. The method of claim 15 wherein causing a second route between the origin location and the destination location to be determined includes causing a determination of the second route that extends between at least a portion of the area from the origin location to the destination location, but that does not include the maneuver.