MAP APPLICATION WITH TRANSIT NAVIGATION MODE

• US 20160358471A1
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Published: 12/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Hajj, Usama M., Leighton, Ian, Hodge, David, Sabol, Cameron, van Os, Marcel
• Granted Patent: US 10,094,675 B2
• 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 displays a selectable user interface (UI) item for a transit station, a representation of which, is displayed over a presentation of a portion of a map of an area. Upon selection of the UI item, the map application of some embodiments provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a first set of information about the transit station, and a second set of information about departure schedules of several different transit lines from the transit station.

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:

displaying a selectable user interface (UI) item for a transit station a representation of which is displayed over a presentation of a portion of a map of an area; and

providing, upon selection of the UI item, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising;

a first set of information about the transit station; and

a second set of information about departure schedules of a plurality of transit lines from the transit station.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the selectable UI item comprises a set of instructions for displaying a banner over the representation of the transit station, the banner comprising the selectable UI item as well as other information about the transit station.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first set of information comprises at least one of a distance from a current location of the device to the transit station, an address of the transit station, and a set of selectable affordances for providing directions to and from the transit station.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the transit station comprises a transit hub and the plurality of transit lines comprises different transit lines for different types of transit vehicles.

5. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 4, wherein the different types of transit vehicles comprises at least one of a subway, a light rail train, a bus, and a ferry.

6. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of transit lines are categorized into high frequency transit lines and low frequency transit lines, wherein time intervals between each pair of departures of transit vehicles of the high frequency transit lines from the transit station is less than a threshold time, while the time intervals between each pair of departures of transit vehicles of the low frequency transit lines from the transit station is more than the threshold time.

7. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 6, wherein a transit line of a first transit system is categorized as a high frequency transit line while a transit line of a second different transit system is categorized as a low frequency transit line.

8. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 6, wherein a first transit line of a transit system is categorized as a high frequency transit line while a second transit line of the same transit system is categorized as a low frequency transit line.

9. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 6, wherein the set of instructions for providing the second set of information comprises a set of instructions for displaying the second set of information for the departure schedules of the high frequency transit lines different from the low frequency transit lines.

10. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 9, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the second set of information comprises sets of instructions for:

for each high frequency transit line, displaying a frequency of departures of the transit vehicles of the line from the transit station; and

for each low frequency transit line, displaying one or more departure times of next one ore more transit vehicles of the line from the transit station.

11. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 10, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the frequency of departures further comprises a set of instructions for displaying a remaining time to a next scheduled departure for the high frequency transit line.

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

receiving a selection of the remaining time to the next scheduled departure for the high frequency transit line; and

displaying a set of additional next scheduled departures of transit vehicles of the transit line from the transit station.

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;

displaying a selectable user interface (UI) item for a transit station a representation of which is displayed over a presentation of a portion of a map of an area; and

providing, upon selection of the UI item, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising;

a first set of information about the transit station; and

a second set of information about departure schedules of a plurality of transit lines from the transit station.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the GUI further comprises a third set of information about one or more incidents associated with one or more transit lines departing from the transit station.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the set of instructions for providing the second set of information comprises sets of instructions for:

determining in which geographical area the transit station is located; and

for each transit line;

identifying a local directional term that is used in the geographical area for a departure direction of the transit line; and

displaying the local directional term as a trip heading of the transit line.

16. The electronic device of claim of claim 15, wherein at least one local directional term comprises a directional term that is different than traditional cardinal directions.

17. The electronic device of claim of claim 15, wherein the transit station is a first transit station and the geographical area is a first geographical area, wherein for a particular transit line, the set of instructions for identifying the local directional term comprises sets of instructions for:

identifying a first local directional term for a particular departure direction of the particular transit line from the first transit station; and

identifying a second different directional term for the same particular departure direction of the particular transit line from a second transit station that is located in a second different geographical area.

18. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the local directional term as the trip heading of the transit line comprises a set of instructions for displaying a cardinal direction as the trip heading of the transit line when no local directional term is identified to be used for the departure direction of the transit line in the geographical area.

19. The electronic device of claim 13 further comprising a touch-sensitive display screen on which the GUI is displayed, wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for receiving a touch input for scrolling through the first and second sets of information of the GUI.

23. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the first set of information comprises at least one of a website address for the searched location, a physical address of the searched location, photos of the searched location, and a rating of the searched location, wherein the second set of information comprises (i) public transit stations that are available within the threshold vicinity of the searched location and (ii) information about transit lines that depart from the public transit stations.

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