MAP APPLICATION WITH TRANSIT NAVIGATION MODE

• US 20160356603A1
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Published: 12/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Dudus, Jan Sanchez, Saraogee, Anil, Hajj, Usama M., Andrich, Brian, Leighton, Ian, Hodge, David, O'Beirne, Justin, Wachsman, Eleanor Cady, Kelso, Nathaniel V., Reiner, Aaron A., Tesov, Alexander, Verosub, Ellis M., Maitra, Supratik
• Application Number:
  US14/869,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20160356603A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3423 Multimodal routing, i.e. combining two or more modes of transportation, where the modes can be any of, e.g. driving, walking, cycling, public transport
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0125 Traffic data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a map application that receives a starting location and a destination location. The application then identifies several different transit routes from the starting location to the destination location based on a set of transit preferences. Each transit route includes a set of transit legs each of which is serviced by a different transit line. In some embodiments, the application ranks the identified transit routes based on a set of criteria, and displays a representation of a highest ranked transit route over a portion of a map presentation along with a set of information about the displayed transit route.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a map application executable by at least one processing unit of a device, the application comprising sets of instructions for:

receiving a starting location and a destination location;

identifying a plurality of transit routes from the starting location to the destination location based on a set of transit preferences, each identified transit route comprising a set of transit legs each of which serviced by a different transit line;

ranking the plurality of transit routes based on a set of criteria; and

displaying a representation of a highest ranked transit route over a portion of a map presentation along with a set of information about the displayed transit route.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for providing a plurality of affordances for customizing the set of transit preferences.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the set of instructions for providing the plurality of affordances comprises sets of instructions for:

providing a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising;

a first display area for displaying a first subset of the plurality of affordances for modifying at least one of a date and a time of a departure from the starting location; and

a second display area for displaying a second subset of the plurality of affordances for modifying a set of transit systems that are used in the plurality of transit routes.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 3, wherein the set of transit systems comprises subway trains, buses, light rails, and ferries.

5. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 3, wherein the set of instructions for providing the second subset of affordances for modifying the set of transit systems comprises a set of instructions for providing an affordance next to each transit system to enable or disable the transit system to be included in the plurality of transit routes.

6. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 3, wherein the set of instructions for identifying the plurality of routes further comprises identifying a new plurality of routes when a transit preference in the set of transit preferences is modified by using any of the first and second subsets of affordances.

7. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the sets of instructions for identifying and ranking the plurality of transit routes comprises sets of instructions for:

sending the starting and destination locations to a set of servers; and

receiving from the server set the plurality of ranked transit routes.

8. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of instructions for identifying the plurality of routes further comprises a set of instructions for identifying the plurality of routes based on an availability of transit vehicles that service the different transit legs of each transit route.

9. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of instructions for identifying the plurality of routes further comprises a set of instructions for identifying no route when at least one transit leg in each transit route from the starting location to the destination location is not available based on the customized set of transit preferences.

10. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 9, wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for providing a particular affordance for modifying the customized set of transit preferences to include all available transit vehicles when no route is identified to be available.

11. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 10, wherein the application further comprises sets of instructions for:

receiving a selection of the particular affordance;

determining that no route is available even after the modification of the customized set of transit preferences; and

displaying a set of third-party public transit applications that provide transit vehicles between the starting location and the destination location.

12. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11, wherein the set of third-party public transit applications comprises a first subset of applications that have already been installed on the device and a second subset of applications that are available to be installed on the device.

13. An electronic device comprising:

a set of processing units for executing sets of instructions; and

a non-transitory machine readable medium storing a map application executable by at least one of the processing units of the device, the application comprising sets of instructions for;

receiving a starting location and a destination location;

identifying a plurality of transit routes from the starting location to the destination location based on a set of transit preferences, each route comprising a set of transit legs each of which serviced by a different transit line;

ranking the plurality of transit routes based on a set of criteria; and

displaying a representation of a highest ranked transit route over a portion of a map presentation along with a set of information about the displayed transit route.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the set of criteria comprises at least one of an aggregated distance between the starting and destination locations, shortest aggregated travel time between the starting location and the destination, and a least number of transit vehicle changes between the starting location and the destination.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the set of information about the displayed transit route comprises at least one of an incident associated with a transit leg of the transit route, a total walking distance required in the transit route, a total duration of traveling the transit route, and a frequency of departure times of transit vehicles of a transit line from a first station of a first transit leg of the transit trip.

16. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the application further comprises sets of instructions for:

providing a selectable user interface (UI) item for displaying all of transit routes in the identified plurality of transit routes;

displaying, upon selection of the UI item, a scrollable list view of selectable transit route summary presentations each of which is associated with one of the identified transit routes.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the highest ranked transit route is displayed in a first display area and the scrollable list view is displayed in a second display area, wherein the application further comprises sets of instructions for:

receiving a selection of a transit route presentation that is associated with a particular transit route other than the highest ranked transit route;

upon selection of the transit route presentation, replacing the representation of the highest ranked transit route in the first display area with a representation of the particular transit route over a different portion of the map presentation; and

displaying a selectable user interface item (UI) for starting navigation to the destination location through the particular transit route.

18. For a map application executable by at least one processor of a device, a method for displaying transit routes, the method comprising:

receiving a starting location and a destination location;

identifying a plurality of transit routes from the starting location to the destination location based on a set of transit preferences, each route comprising a set of transit legs each of which serviced by a different transit line;

ranking the plurality of transit routes based on a set of criteria; and

displaying, in a first display area, a highest ranked transit route.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein ranking the plurality of transit routes is further based on a set of traffic incidents that are associated with one or more transit legs of one or more transit routes in the plurality of transit routes.

20. The method of claim 18 further comprising displaying, in a second display area, an incident associated with a transit leg of the transit route displayed in the first display area.

21. The method of claim 18 further comprising displaying, in a second display area:

a route summary presentation comprising a sequence of representations of transit lines, each of which services a transit leg of the displayed transit route; and

a selectable user interface (UI) item for displaying the plurality of transit routes in a scrollable list view.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the route summary presentation further comprises one or more representations for one or more walking distances that are included in the transit route.

23. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

receiving a selection of the UI item; and

displaying, upon selection of the UI item, the scrollable list view in a third display area, the list view comprising a set of selectable transit route summary presentations each of which is associated with one of the identified transit routes.

24. The method of claim 23 further comprising:

receiving a selection of a transit route presentation that is associated with a particular transit route other than the highest ranked transit route; and

upon selection of the transit route presentation, replacing the representation of the highest ranked transit route in the first display area with a representation of the particular transit route over a different portion of the map presentation.