System and method for obtaining driving directions

• US 20040083050A1
• Filed: 10/25/2002
• Published: 04/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Veena Biyani
• Original Assignee: Veena Biyani
• Inventors: Biyani, Veena
• Application Number:
  US10/279,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20040083050A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3632 Guidance using simplified or iconic instructions, e.g. using arrows G01C21/365 takes precedence

Abstract

A system and method for obtaining driving directions that includes a user communication device and an address/mapping communication device, wherein the address/mapping communication device provides driving directions to the user communication device based on ‘from’ and ‘to’ telephone number data.

Claims

1. A system for obtaining driving directions, said system comprising:

a user communication device; and

address/mapping communication device, wherein said address/mapping communication device provides driving directions to the user communication device based on ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said address/mapping communication device comprises a microprocessor and memory, and wherein said memory includes stored therein computer readable software code means, said computer readable software code means comprising:

first instruction means for responding to a telephone call from a user communication device;

second instruction means for providing a touch tone or voice option to the user communication device;

third instruction means for receiving ‘

from’

side telephone number data from the user communication device;

fourth instruction means for providing a current location or a billing/service address option to the user communication device for the ‘

from’

side telephone number data;

fifth instruction means for receiving ‘

to’

side telephone number data from the user communication device;

sixth instruction means for providing a current location or a billing/service address option to the user communication device for the ‘

to’

side telephone number data;

seventh instruction means for passing the ‘

to’

telephone number data to an address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

eighth instruction means for determining if address data is able to be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

ninth instruction means for providing address data from the address engine on the address/mapping communication device to the user communication device if address data can be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data;

tenth instruction means for informing the user communication device that address data is not available if address data cannot be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

eleventh instruction means for passing the address data to a mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device if address data can be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data;

twelfth instruction means for determining if mapping data is able to be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

thirteenth instruction means for providing mapping data from the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device to the user communication device if mapping data can be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device; and

fourteenth instruction means for informing the user communication device that mapping data is not available if mapping data cannot be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said user communication device is a wireless telephone.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said user communication device is a wireless communication device.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said user communication device is a personal computer.

6. The system according to claim 2, wherein said user communication device is a personal computer, and wherein computer readable software code means further comprises:

fifteenth instruction means for providing an input window image on the personal computer for obtaining ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data, ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

current location or a billing/service address options, and an input button for requesting driving directions;

sixteenth instruction means for passing the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data to an address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

seventeenth instruction means for determining if address data is able to be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

eighteenth instruction means for providing driving instruction data to the personal computer on a window image if address data can be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data;

nineteenth instruction means for informing the user of the personal computer that address data is not available if address data cannot be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data;

twentieth instruction means for passing the address data to a mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device if address data can be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data;

twenty-first instruction means for determining if mapping data is able to be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

twenty-second instruction means for providing mapping data from the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device on a window image of the address/mapping communication device if mapping data can be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data;

twenty-third instruction means for informing the user of the personal computer that mapping data is not available if mapping data cannot be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data; and

twenty-fourth instruction means for sending driving direction data to a predetermined email address if address data can be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data. 7. The system according to claim 6, said computer readable software code means further comprises twenty-fifth instruction means for sending mapping data to a predetermined email address if mapping data can be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data. 8. A method for obtaining driving directions, said method comprising;

providing a user communication device;

providing an address/mapping communication device communicatively linked to the user communication device;

responding to a telephone call from the user communication device by the address/mapping communication device;

providing a touch tone or voice option to the user communication device by the address/mapping communication device;

receiving ‘

from’

side telephone number data from the user communication device by the address/mapping communication device;

providing a current location or a billing/service address option to the user communication device from the address/mapping communication device;

receiving ‘

to’

side telephone number data from the user communication device by the address/mapping communication device;

providing a current location or a billing/service address option for the ‘

to’

side telephone number data to the user communication device from the address/mapping communication device;

passing the ‘

to’

telephone number data to an address engine on the address/mapping communication device determining if address data is able to be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

obtaining address data from the address engine on the address/mapping communication device if address data can be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data;

informing the user communication device that address data is not available if address data cannot be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

passing the address data to a mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device if address data can be generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the ‘

from’ and

‘

to’

telephone number data;

determining if mapping data is able to be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

informing the user communication device that mapping data is not available if mapping data cannot be generated by the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device based on the address data generated by the address engine on the address/mapping communication device;

obtaining mapping data from the mapping engine on the address/communication device if mapping data can be generated by the mapping engine on the address/communication device; and

providing address and/or mapping data from the address engine and/or the mapping engine on the address/mapping communication device to the user communication device if address data and/or mapping data has been obtained by the address/mapping communication device.