SAFE ROUTE CONFIGURATION

• US 20090210142A1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Black, Neil W., Panabaker, Ruston, Krumm, John C., Couckuyt, Jeffrey D., Seltzer, Michael Lewis, Tashev, Ivan J.
• Application Number:
  US12/033,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210142A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles

Abstract

Routes can be produced based on safety characteristics of paths that are included in the route. Safety characteristics can include how susceptible an area surrounding a path is to crime as well as traffic data, such as how many automobile accidents take place on average. Various amounts of safety information can be gathered and a particular path can be assigned a safety score. Analysis can run on different path combinations that would take a user from a starting point to an intended destination. A route can be produced based on the safety score alone, such as a route with a lowest score, based on the safety score with other factors such as anticipated traffic, and the like.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an evaluation component that analyzes at least one path based upon at least one safety characteristic of the path; and

a fabrication component that produces a route made of at least one analyzed path as a function of the analysis, the produced route mitigates potential risk to a user anticipated to take the route.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence component that makes at least one inference or at least one determination toward path analysis or route production.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a calculation component that compiles a safety rating of the path, the safety rating is used in path analysis or route production.

4. The system of claim 3, further comprising an interaction component that collects safety data from a user, the safety data from the user is used to compile the safety rating.

5. The system of claim 3, further comprising a weight component that applies a factor to the safety rating and balances the factored safety rating with at least one production constraint related to the route to produce a route metric.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising a decision component that selects the route for production based upon the route metric.

7. The system of claim 1, where the safety characteristic is based upon historical safety data, an observation, a safety prediction, or a combination thereof.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising a forecast component that predicts a safety characteristic for the path.

9. The system of claim 1, the fabrication component attempts to produce a route that has a safety standard acceptable to the user and if a route that has the safety standard acceptable to the user cannot be made, then notifying the user that a standard route is produced.

10. The system of claim 1, the safety characteristic of the path is based upon criminal statistics related to the path.

11. A method, comprising:

determining that a safety score for a route is not at an acceptable standard; and

augmenting the route in a manner to bring the safety score to the acceptable standard.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising evaluating safety information, a result of the evaluation is used in determining that the safety score for the route is not at the acceptable standard.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising collecting safety information that pertains to the route, the collected safety information is evaluated.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising establishing the safety score.

15. The method of claim 11, augmenting the route in a manner to bring the safety score to the acceptable standard includes making a change to the route and determining if the change is sufficient to bring the safety score to the acceptable standard.

16. The method of claim 15, if the change is not sufficient, then there is reiteration of making the change and determining if the change is sufficient.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising disclosing the augmented route.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising producing the acceptable standard.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising generating the route upon which the safety score is determined.

20. A system, comprising:

means for collecting historical safety data for a path as well as current safety data for the path, safety data of the path is based upon criminal statistics related to the path;

means for calculating a safety score for the path based upon the collected data;

means for predicting an exposure level for a user anticipated to travel along a path;

means for ranking at least one path combination based upon the safety score and the predicted exposure level; and

means for selecting at least one path combination for presentation to the user based upon the ranking.