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Transportation routing

  • US 9,945,686 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2017
  • Issued: 04/17/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system to provide user-specific navigational information to a user, the system comprising:

  • a user computing device configured to receive user input from the user that identifies one or more user preferences, wherein the one or more user preferences comprise one or more preferred navigational points;

    a navigational information computing system communicatively coupled to the user computing device over a network, the navigational information computing system comprising a database that stores user data, and wherein the navigational information computing system is configured to;

    receive data from the user computing device that identifies the one or more user preferences;

    update the database to store information descriptive of the one or more user preferences when received from the user computing device;

    after updating the database, receive a request from the user computing device or a vehicle navigation system; and

    in response to the request, determine navigational information based on the one or more user preferences stored in the database, wherein the navigational information comprises one or more navigational routes that include the one or more preferred navigational points; and

    the vehicle navigation system included in a vehicle and communicatively coupled to the navigational information computing system over the network, wherein the vehicle navigation system is configured to receive the navigational information that is based on the one or more user preferences and display the navigational information to the user.

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