DETERMINING A ROUTE TO A DESTINATION BASED ON PARTIALLY COMPLETED ROUTE

• US 20110106436A1
• Filed: 11/05/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: AOL Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bill, David S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,498,809 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/206
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3407 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement

Abstract

Techniques are provided for predicting a destination for a ground-based vehicle. Travel patterns are accessed and a series of locations of a ground-based vehicle are received. At least some of the received locations are related to at least one accessed travel pattern, and a destination of the ground-based vehicle is predicted based on relating the received locations with the travel patterns. An existence of an event may be predicted using the predicted destinations of a ground-based vehicle.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for predicting a destination for a ground-based vehicle, the method comprising:

accessing travel patterns;

receiving a series of locations of a ground-based vehicle;

relating at least some of the received locations to at least one accessed travel pattern; and

predicting a destination of the ground-based vehicle based on relating the received locations to the travel patterns.

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