Emphasizing featured locations during a journey
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1. A computerized method for enhancing the travel experience of a user, the method comprising:
- planning, by a processor, a route according to an origin point and a destination point;
accessing, by a processor, a featured location database, the database including a plurality of featured locations and at least one description for each featured location;
accessing, by a processor, a travel history log of the user;
counting, by a processor, the number of featured locations that are along the route and have a description that is presentable according to presentation criteria that are responsive to the travel history log of the user; and
if the number is below a predefined minimum of at least two, then planning, by a processor, an alternate route between the origin point and the destination point, such that;
the alternate route is within a predetermined route extension tolerance, andthe count of featured locations, along the alternate route, that have a description that is presentable according to the presentation criteria, is greater than the number.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for presenting audio and/or multimedia descriptions of featured locations to a traveling user, so that descriptions are not replayed in repeated journeys in the same area. When descriptions along a certain route are exhausted in the course of repeated journeys, the user is offered an alternate route in order to visit additional featured locations that have not yet been presented to the user.
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1. A computerized method for enhancing the travel experience of a user, the method comprising:
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planning, by a processor, a route according to an origin point and a destination point; accessing, by a processor, a featured location database, the database including a plurality of featured locations and at least one description for each featured location; accessing, by a processor, a travel history log of the user; counting, by a processor, the number of featured locations that are along the route and have a description that is presentable according to presentation criteria that are responsive to the travel history log of the user; and if the number is below a predefined minimum of at least two, then planning, by a processor, an alternate route between the origin point and the destination point, such that; the alternate route is within a predetermined route extension tolerance, and the count of featured locations, along the alternate route, that have a description that is presentable according to the presentation criteria, is greater than the number. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A server operative to enhance the travel experience of a user, the server comprising:
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a featured location database that includes a plurality of featured locations and at least one description for each featured location; a user database that includes a travel history log of the user; and a processor programmed to; plan a route according to an origin point and a destination point; count the number of featured locations that are along the route and have a description that is presentable according to presentation criteria that are responsive to the travel history log of the user; and if the number is below a predefined minimum of at least two, then plan an alternate route between the origin point and the destination point, such that; the alternate route is within a predetermined route extension tolerance, and the count of featured locations, along the alternate route, that have a description that is presentable according to the presentation criteria, is greater than the number. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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