Method And System For Using Routine Driving Information

• US 20160054136A1
• Filed: 08/14/2015
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DBSD Corporation (Dish Network Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Dish Network Corporation
• Inventors: Raab, Stefan Bernad
• Granted Patent: US 9,664,526 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• 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 21/3611 using character input or menus, e.g. menus of POIs character input methods in general G06F3/0233
• 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 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096805 where the transmitted instructions are used to compute a route

Abstract

A method according to an embodiment of the invention is provided for identifying at least one routing option for use in routing a user from a current location to at least one destination comprising. The method includes the operations of: receiving electronic data identifying at least one destination; receiving electronic data indicating a current location; accessing, from the at least one memory device, historical information associated with at least one route segment, wherein the at least one route segment is interposed between the current location and the at least one destination; receiving, from at least one navigation service provider, a current condition for each of the at least one route segment; identifying, based on the current location, the historical information associated with at least one route segment, and the current condition for each of the at least one route segment, at least one routing option for use in routing a user from the current location to the at least one destination; and outputting at least one navigation direction, wherein the at least one navigation direction include an identification of the at least one routing option.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for identifying at least one routing option for use in routing a user from a current location to at least one destination comprising:

receiving electronic data identifying at least one destination;

receiving electronic data indicating a current location;

accessing, from the at least one memory device, historical information associated with at least one route segment, wherein the at least one route segment is interposed between the current location and the at least one destination;

receiving, from at least one navigation service provider, a current condition for each of the at least one route segment;

identifying, based on the current location, the historical information associated with at least one route segment, and the current condition for each of the at least one route segment, at least one routing option for use in routing a user from the current location to the at least one destination; and

outputting at least one navigation direction, wherein the at least one navigation direction include an identification of the at least one routing option.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

Converting the at least one navigation direction into at least one human audibly perceptible navigation instruction; and

outputting, via at least one speaker, the at least one human audibly perceptible navigation instruction.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

converting the at least one navigation direction into at least one human visually perceptible navigation instruction; and

outputting, via at least one display device, the at least one human visually perceptible navigation instruction.

4. The method of claim 3, comprising:

outputting, via the at least one display device, information regarding the at least one destination.

5. The method of claim 3, comprising:

receiving an indication of at least one website, wherein the at least one website identifies information relating to the at least one destination;

establishing an electronic connection with the at least one website;

accessing, via the at least one website, information relating to the at least one destination;

identifying at least one first portion of the information relating to the at least one destination; and

outputting, via the at least one display device, the first portion of the information relating to the at least one destination.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first portion of the information relating to the at least one destination is identified based on historical trip data.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the first portion of the information relating to the at least one destination is identified based on a user preference.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data indicating the current location includes date and time data and the historical information associated with at least one route segment identifies a starting destination based on the date and time data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the historical information associated with at least one route segment identifies at least one statistic associated with at least one route segment.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one current condition indicates at least one road traffic condition.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the destination is at least one point of interest.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic data identifying the at least one destination is received in response to a user selecting the at least one destination using at least one interface module.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one interface module includes a microphone for receiving a spoken identification of the at least one destination.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one destination is a dynamic destination and the method further comprises identifying the dynamic destination.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the dynamic destination is identified based on historical trip date.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the dynamic destination is identified based on at least one rating of a plurality of potential destinations satisfying one or more given criterion identified by a user using an interface module.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein at least one of the one or more given criterion identify a routine destination area and a second of the one or more given criterion identify one or more points of interest.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the historical information includes statistical information associated with the user routinely traveling between a first location and the at least one destination on a first route at a first time of day, the first route including a plurality of route segments.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the current location arises on at least one of the plurality of route segments for the first route.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing at least one user preference and wherein the identification of the at least one routing option is based, at least in part, on the at least one user preference.