SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC DESTINATION SELECTION

• US 20110161001A1
• Filed: 10/11/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: FINK, Daniel Edward
• Granted Patent: US 9,518,833 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3407 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• 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 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• 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 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09

Abstract

When a user enters, initializes, or otherwise starts using a navigation function, such as a navigation function on a mobile phone or a stand-alone device, a destination is automatically selected for route generation and production of a navigation output (e.g., an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) at the destination). The destination is selected based on current proximity to a location that has a pre-defined destination associated with it. Such pre-defined destination usually is associated with the location by the user. A time of day criteria can also be imposed, such as requiring that the time of day either by in the morning or afternoon, a work day, or a holiday, or the opposite. In one example, locations proximate a work place can be associated with home as a pre-defined destination, and vice versa. A time of day criteria can be imposed, such that even if proximate work and it is in the morning, a route and ETA to home will not be generated.

Claims

1. A method for implementation on a mobile device comprising:

activating a navigation function on the mobile device;

determining a location of the mobile device; and

when the location of the mobile device is proximate to a location associated with a pre-defined destination, producing a navigation output using the pre-defined destination.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an option to associate a selected destination as the pre-defined destination associated with the location.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a route to the pre-defined destination and outputting the route as the navigation output.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the navigation output comprises an estimated time of arrival to at the pre-defined destination.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a start page upon mobile device initialization, which includes a user selectable option to activate the navigation function, and activating the navigation function responsive to detecting a user selection of the option to activate the navigation function.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining traffic congestion information over a network interface, selecting a route based at least in part on the traffic congestion information, and outputting the estimated time of arrival based on the selected route.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the outputting of the estimated time of arrival at the pre-defined destination is further conditioned on a time of day meeting a time of day criteria.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the time of day criteria comprises a criteria that the current time is within one of the morning or the afternoon hours.

9. A computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions for a method to be implemented on a mobile device comprising:

activating a navigation function on the mobile device;

determining a location of the mobile device; and

when the location of the mobile device is proximate to a location associated with a pre-defined destination, producing a navigation output using the pre-defined destination.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises displaying an option to associate a selected destination as the pre-defined destination associated with the location.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises outputting, as the navigation utput, an estimated time of arrival to the pre-defined destination.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises displaying a start page upon mobile device initialization, which includes a user selectable option to activate the navigation function, and activating the navigation function responsive to detecting a user selection of the option to activate the navigation function.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises obtaining traffic congestion information over a network interface, selecting a route based at least in part on the traffic congestion information, and outputting the estimated time of arrival based on the selected route.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the pre-defined destination further is selected based on a time of day matching a time of day criteria.

15. A mobile device, comprising:

a user interface module operable to receive input; and

a navigation module operable to initialize responsive to input from the user interface module indicative of a command to initialize, obtain information representative of a location of the mobile device; and

to output an estimated time of arrival at a pre-defined destination associated with a location, when the location of the mobile device is proximate to that location.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the user interface module further is operable to display an option to associate a selected destination as the pre-defined destination associated with the location.

17. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the navigation module further is operable to output an estimated time of arrival to a destination selected in response to detection of user input.

18. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the user interface module further is operable to display a start page upon mobile device initialization, which includes a user selectable option to activate the navigation function, and to activate the navigation function responsive to detecting a selection of the option to activate the navigation function.

19. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the navigation module further is operable to obtain traffic congestion information over a network interface, select a route based at least in part on the traffic congestion information, and to output the estimated time of arrival based on the selected route.

20. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the navigation module further is operable to further condition the outputting of the estimated time of arrival at the pre-defined destination is based on a time of day meeting a time of day criteria.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the time of day criteria comprises a criteria that the current time is within one of the morning or the afternoon hours.