METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING POINT OF INTEREST CHANGES

• US 20160275102A1
• Filed: 03/17/2015
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HERE Global B.V. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: HERE Global B.V. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: HARO, Antonio, BARNES, Craig
• Granted Patent: US 10,191,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases

Abstract

An approach is provided for processing status information for one or more points of interest to determine the changes for generation of various representations for presenting in a user interface. The approach involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of status information associated with one or more points of interest to determine one or more point-of-interest changes. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, a generation of one or more representations of the one or more point-of-interest changes, one or more transitions between the one or more point-of-interest changes, or a combination thereof. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a presentation of the one or more representations in at least one point-of-interest user interface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

processing and/or facilitating a processing of status information associated with one or more points of interest to determine one or more point-of-interest changes;

causing, at least in part, a generation of one or more representations of the one or more point-of-interest changes, one or more transitions between the one or more point-of-interest changes, or a combination thereof; and

causing, at least in part, a presentation of the one or more representations in at least one point-of-interest user interface.

2. A method of claim 1, wherein the one or more point-of-interest changes include, at least in part, one or more location changes, one or more point-of-interest type changes, one or more operational state changes, or a combination thereof.

3. A method of claim 1, further comprising:

causing, at least in part, an extraction of the status information from one or more building permit databases.

4. A method of claim 3, wherein the one or more building permit databases include, at least in part, building permit data captured from one or more physical building permits.

5. A method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing and/or facilitating a processing of the status information using one or more machine learning mechanisms to determine one or more point-of-interest changes.

6. A method of claim 1, wherein the one or more representations are presented as one or more interactive user interface elements in the at least one point-of-interest user interface, the method further comprising:

causing, at least in part, a presentation of information related to the one or more point-of-interest changes based, at least in part, on one or more user interactions with the one or more user interactive user interface elements.

7. A method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining temporal data associated with the one or more point-of-interest changes,

wherein the generation of the one or more representations, the presentation of the one or more representations, or a combination thereof is based, at least in part, on the temporal data.

8. A method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining other temporal data associated with at least one viewing time of the one or more representations, the at least one point-of-interest user interface, or a combination thereof,

wherein the generation of the one or more representations, the presentation of the one or more representations, or a combination thereof is further based, at least in part, on the other temporal data.

9. A method of claim 1, wherein the one or more point-of-interest changes include, at least in part, a same state, a closed state, a newly opened state, or a combination thereof.

10. A method of claim 1, further comprising:

causing, at least in part, a mapping between the one or more point-of-interest changes and the one or more representations,

wherein the one or more representations include, at least in part, one or more visual representations; and

wherein the one or more visual representations include a color change, a transparency change, a scale change, additional text, additional icons, a distortion, an animation, or a combination thereof.

11. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,

process and/or facilitate a processing of status information associated with one or more points of interest to determine one or more point-of-interest changes;

cause, at least in part, a generation of one or more representations of the one or more point-of-interest changes, one or more transitions between the one or more point-of-interest changes, or a combination thereof; and

cause, at least in part, a presentation of the one or more representations in at least one point-of-interest user interface.

12. An apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

cause, at least in part, an extraction of the status information from one or more building permit databases.

13. An apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

process and/or facilitate a processing of the status information using one or more machine learning mechanisms to determine one or more point-of-interest changes.

14. An apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more representations are presented as one or more interactive user interface elements in the at least one point-of-interest user interface, the method further comprising:

cause, at least in part, a presentation of information related to the one or more point-of-interest changes based, at least in part, on one or more user interactions with the one or more user interactive user interface elements.

15. An apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

determine temporal data associated with the one or more point-of-interest changes,

wherein the generation of the one or more representations, the presentation of the one or more representations, or a combination thereof is based, at least in part, on the temporal data.

16. An apparatus of claim 15, further comprising:

determine other temporal data associated with at least one viewing time of the one or more representations, the at least one point-of-interest user interface, or a combination thereof,

wherein the generation of the one or more representations, the presentation of the one or more representations, or a combination thereof is further based, at least in part, on the other temporal data.

17. An apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

cause, at least in part, a mapping between the one or more point-of-interest changes and the one or more representations,

wherein the one or more representations include, at least in part, one or more visual representations; and

wherein the one or more visual representations include a color change, a transparency change, a scale change, additional text, additional icons, a distortion, an animation, or a combination thereof.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:

processing and/or facilitating a processing of status information associated with one or more points of interest to determine one or more point-of-interest changes;

causing, at least in part, a generation of one or more representations of the one or more point-of-interest changes, one or more transitions between the one or more point-of-interest changes, or a combination thereof; and

causing, at least in part, a presentation of the one or more representations in at least one point-of-interest user interface.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the one or more point-of-interest changes include, at least in part, one or more location changes, one or more point-of-interest type changes, one or more operational state changes, or a combination thereof.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the apparatus is further caused to perform:

causing, at least in part, an extraction of the status information from one or more building permit databases.

21. -48. (canceled)