Method of operation of a navigation system to reduce expenses on future trips and to provide other functions
First Claim
1. A method of operation of a navigation system comprising:
- monitoring trips made over a period of time by an end user;
storing data on a computer storage medium that represent said trips made by the end user, wherein said data indicate destinations of said trips and purposes associated with said trips;
analyzing said data that represent the trips; and
determining ways to reduce an amount of expense spent on future trips to be made by the end user to accomplish said purposes.
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Abstract
A navigation system includes a driving profile program. The driving profile program collects information about an end user'"'"'s driving activity. The information relates to trips made by the end user. The information includes departure times, intermediate stops, arrival times, purposes of the trips, and so on. After collecting this information over a period of time, the driving profile program analyzes the end user'"'"'s driving activity. The driving profile program provides the end user with a driving activity profile. In addition, the driving profile program determines ways to reduce the amount of time and/or expense that the end user spends traveling in his/her vehicle and suggests modifications to the end user'"'"'s driving activity that would save the end user time or expense.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of operation of a navigation system comprising:
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monitoring trips made over a period of time by an end user;
storing data on a computer storage medium that represent said trips made by the end user, wherein said data indicate destinations of said trips and purposes associated with said trips;
analyzing said data that represent the trips; and
determining ways to reduce an amount of expense spent on future trips to be made by the end user to accomplish said purposes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A trip profile program stored on a computer-readable media comprising:
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a data collection component that obtains data about the trip activities of each of a plurality of end users;
a trip history storage component that stores the data about the trip activities of the plurality of end users;
a trip analysis component that analyzes the data about the trip activities of each end user and determines expense saving modifications; and
a reporting component that provides each end user with a report indicating the expense saving modifications determined for the end user.
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19. A trip profile program stored on a computer-readable media comprising:
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a data collection component that obtains data about the trip activities of each of a plurality of end users;
a trip history storage component that stores the data about the trip activities of the plurality of end users;
a trip analysis component that analyzes the data about the trip activities of each end user and determines expense saving modifications; and
an interactive component by which each end user can propose modifications to an associated trip activity profile and receive estimates of how the modifications would affect the expense spent traveling to destinations.
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20. A method of operation of a navigation system comprising:
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monitoring trips to destinations made over a period of time by an end user;
storing data on a computer storage medium that represent said trips made by the end user, wherein said data indicate destination types corresponding with the destinations of said trips made by the end user, and providing advertising to the end user, wherein said advertising is related to one of said destination types associated with said trips made by the end user, wherein said advertising does not correspond with one of the destinations of said trips.
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21. A method of operation of a navigation system comprising:
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monitoring trips made over a period of time by an end user;
storing data on a computer storage medium that represent said trips made by the end user, wherein said data indicate destinations of said trips made by the end user;
categorizing said destinations associated with the trips made by the end user into categories based on type of destination; and
providing advertising to the end user, wherein said advertising is related to one of said categories.
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22. A method of operation of a navigation system comprising:
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monitoring trips made over a period of time by an end user;
storage data on a computer storage medium that represent said trips made by the end user on a storage medium;
wherein said data indicates destinations of said trips made by the end user, wherein said data indicate purposes associated with said trips made by the end user, wherein said purposes indicating activities other than arriving at said destinations; and
providing advertising to the end user, wherein said advertising is related to one of said purposes associated with said trips made by the end user. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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