System and Method for Automatically Receiving Geo-Relevant Information in a Vehicle
First Claim
1. A method for automatically presenting, in a vehicle, path-relevant information to a vehicle operator, the method comprising the acts of:
- recording, by an onboard vehicle computer in a local storage, vehicle route data during vehicle travel;
generating, by the onboard vehicle computer, one or more route prediction models using the vehicle route data;
predicting, by the onboard vehicle computer, a vehicle route based on the one or more route prediction models;
transmitting, by the onboard vehicle computer, coordinate data corresponding to the predicted vehicle route to a backend server over a wireless network connection;
receiving, by the onboard vehicle computer and in response to the transmitted coordinate data, path-relevant information from the backend server over the wireless network connection; and
presenting at least a portion of the path-relevant information to the vehicle operator.
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Abstract
Path-relevant information is provided by a backend server system to a vehicle without an input or request from the vehicle operator. Program applications, including a web browser application, records vehicle route data in a local memory during vehicle travel. Such vehicle route data may include current GPS coordinates, time of day, day of week, etc. The recorded vehicle route data may then be used to locally generate one or more route prediction models. A predicted vehicle route may be generated from the route prediction models. Once a vehicle route has been predicted, coordinate data corresponding to the predicted route may be transmitted to a backend server. Thereafter, path-relevant information, based on the transmitted coordinate data, may then be received from the backend server, and without the vehicle operator having to provide any input or request.
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27 Claims
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1. A method for automatically presenting, in a vehicle, path-relevant information to a vehicle operator, the method comprising the acts of:
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recording, by an onboard vehicle computer in a local storage, vehicle route data during vehicle travel; generating, by the onboard vehicle computer, one or more route prediction models using the vehicle route data; predicting, by the onboard vehicle computer, a vehicle route based on the one or more route prediction models; transmitting, by the onboard vehicle computer, coordinate data corresponding to the predicted vehicle route to a backend server over a wireless network connection; receiving, by the onboard vehicle computer and in response to the transmitted coordinate data, path-relevant information from the backend server over the wireless network connection; and presenting at least a portion of the path-relevant information to the vehicle operator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An onboard vehicle computer system of a vehicle comprising:
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a network interface; a user interface; a GPS transceiver; a processor coupled to the network interface, user interface and the GPS transceiver; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the onboard vehicle computer system to; record, in a local storage, vehicle route data during vehicle travel, generate one or more route prediction models using the vehicle route data, predict a vehicle route based on the updated one or more route prediction models, transmit coordinate data corresponding to the predicted vehicle route to a backend server over a wireless network connection via the network interface, receive, in response to the transmitted coordinate data, path-relevant information from the backend server over the wireless network connection via the network interface, and present at least a portion of the path-relevant information to a vehicle operator. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer program product comprising:
a processor storage medium having computer executable program code embodied therein to automatically present, in a vehicle, path-relevant information to a vehicle operator, the processor storage medium having; computer executable program code to record, in a local storage, vehicle route data during vehicle travel, computer executable program code to generate one or more route prediction models using the vehicle route data, computer executable program code to predict a vehicle route based on the updated one or more route prediction models, computer executable program code to transmit coordinate data corresponding to the predicted vehicle route to a backend server over a wireless network connection, computer executable program code to receive, in response to the transmitted coordinate data, path-relevant information from the backend server over the wireless network connection, and computer executable program code to present at least a portion of the path-relevant information to the vehicle operator. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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