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Route navigation for optimal mobile coverage

  • US 9,998,910 B2
  • Filed: 02/26/2015
  • Issued: 06/12/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determining an optimum coverage travel route and delivering the optimum coverage travel route to a user which provides the user with immediate access to the optimal coverage route as the user traverses the optimal coverage route with a cell phone, said method comprising:

  • determining, by a Global Positioning System (GPS) detection system in the cell phone, a location of the cell phone, wherein a starting location of a road vehicle is the location of the cell phone;

    receiving, by one or more processors of the cell phone, a travel destination by the vehicle, a starting time for the user to begin travel along the travel route from the starting location of the vehicle to the travel destination, and a telephone carrier service for the cell phone, wherein said receiving the travel destination comprises receiving the travel destination from an Internet web site via an access point of a service provider'"'"'s wireless network, and wherein the cell phone stores historical data from which measures of cell phone coverage may be determined;

    determining, by the one or more processors using the historical data in the cell phone, measures of cell phone coverage along the travel route during the travel beginning at the starting time, wherein the measures of cell phone coverage comprise amounts of dropped calls by the telephone carrier service in one or more areas along the travel route in which the telephone carrier service provides cell phone coverage, and respective times of day during which the dropped calls occur relative to a time of the travel along the travel route beginning at the starting time;

    determining, by the one or more processors, the travel route as an optimum coverage route, from the starting location to the travel destination, that has a lowest number of dropped calls between the starting location and the travel destination during said respective times of day; and

    delivering, by the one or more processors, the optimum coverage route to the user which provides the user with immediate access to the optimal coverage route as the user traverses the optimal coverage route with the cell phone, wherein said delivering comprises displaying on a display within the cell phone, by the one or more processors, the optimum coverage route and the measures of cell phone coverage along the travel route during the travel beginning at the starting time.

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