Method and system for using routine driving information

• US 9,109,916 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2013
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DBSD Corporation (Dish Network Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Dish Network Corporation
• Inventors: Raab, Stefan Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Safaipour, Bobbak
• Application Number:
  US14/095,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20140095072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 623 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3611 using character input or menus, e.g. menus of POIs character input methods in general G06F3/0233
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096805 where the transmitted instructions are used to compute a route

Abstract

A method and an apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a controller to process a criterion for selecting a point-of-interest (POI). The criterion can be based on historical trip data. Data related to a POI, including a community-of-interest rating, for example, can be accessed through a satellite and terrestrial mobile communication network. Multiple POIs can be graphically represented for user selection based on the criterion and/or other data. Once a POI is selected, data related to the selected POI, including navigation data, can be displayed. In another embodiment, the controller can access navigation data to a specified destination. The navigation data can be based on historical trip data such as route segments and destination areas. The navigation data can be accessed from an in-vehicle system or from a navigation service provider and can be displayed to assist a user in reaching the specified destination.

Claims

1. A system for identifying at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to store at least one user preference, historical information associated with at least one route segment, and at least one instruction; and

at least one radio frequency front end module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and to at least one navigation service provider;

wherein the at least one processor executes at least one instruction stored in the at least one memory module to;

access at least one user preference;

access historical information associated with at least one route segment from the at least one memory module and the at least one navigation service provider;

access at least one current condition received from the at least one navigation service provider; and

identify, based on the historical information and the at least one current condition, at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the historical information associated with at least one route segment identifies at least one statistic associated with at least one route segment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor, using the historical information associated with at least one route segment, statistically determines an arrival time based on a given departure time for the at least one routing option.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the historical information associated with at least one route segment identifies a starting destination based on historical day of week and departure time information stored by at least one of the at least one memory module and the navigation service provider.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the historical information includes statistical information associated with the user routinely traveling between a first location and the destination on a first route at a first time of day, the first route including a plurality of route segments.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the destination is at least one point of interest.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor executes at least one instruction to identify the at least one routing option based upon at least one point of interest, wherein the at least one point of interest is specified to the processor by the user using at least one interface module.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor executes at least one instruction to identify the at least one routing option based on at least one criterion,

wherein the at least one criterion is specified by the user using at least one interface module.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one criterion is based on a calculation of a weighted combination of two or more user preferences.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the destination is a dynamic destination and the processor executes at least one instruction to identify the dynamic destination.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the dynamic destination is identified by the processor based on historical trip date.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the dynamic destination is identified by the processor based on at least one rating of a plurality of potential destinations satisfying one or more given criterion identified by a user using an interface module.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein at one of the one or more criterion identify a routine destination area and a second of the one or more criterion identify one or more points of interest.

6. A system for identifying at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to store at least one user preference, historical information associated with at least one route segment, and at least one instruction; and

at least one radio frequency front end module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and to at least one navigation service provider;

wherein the at least one processor executes at least one instruction stored in the at least one memory module to;

access at least one user preference;

access historical information associated with at least one route segment from at least one of the at least one memory module and the at least one navigation service provider;

access at least one current condition received from the at least one navigation service provider; and

identify, based on the historical information and the at least one current condition, at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination;

wherein the historical information includes statistical information associated with the user routinely traveling between a first location and the destination on a first route at a first time of day, the first route including a plurality of route segments; and

wherein the processor executes at least one instruction to;

classify, based on the statistical information, each route segment from the plurality of route segments as a routine route segment with respect to the first time of day;

identify the at least one routing option based on the use of one or more routine route segments given the at least one current condition.

7. The system of claim 6, where the at least one current condition indicates at least one road traffic condition.

12. A system for identifying at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to store at least one user preference, historical information associated with at least one route segment, and at least one instruction; and

at least one radio frequency front end module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and to at least one navigation service provider;

wherein the at least one processor executes at least one instruction stored in the at least one memory module to;

access at least one user preference;

access historical information associated with at least one route segment from at least one of the at least one memory module and the at least one navigation service provider;

access at least one current condition received from the at least one navigation service provider;

identify, based on the historical information and the at least one current condition, at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination;

wherein the at least one criterion is based on a calculation of a weighted combination of two or more user preferences; and

wherein the weighted combination is a linear combination.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor executes at least one instruction to:

receive community of interest information relating to one or more second destinations; and

based on the received community of interest information, identify the at least one second routing option for use in routing the user to the one or more second destinations and the destination.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more second destinations include a geographic area.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more second destinations include a route node.

13. A system for identifying at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to store at least one user preference, historical information associated with at least one route segment, and at least one instruction; and

at least one radio frequency front end module communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and to at least one navigation service provider;

wherein the at least one processor executes at least one instruction stored in the at least one memory module to;

access at least one user preference;

access historical information associated with at least one route segment from at least one of the at least one memory module and the at least one navigation service provider;

access at least one current condition received from the at least one navigation service provider;

identify, based on the historical information and the at least one current condition, at least one routing option for use in routing a user to a destination;

wherein the at least one criterion is based on a calculation of a weighted combination of two or more user preferences; and

wherein the processor executes at least one instruction to assign significant weight to one or more routine route segments for use in the calculation of the weighted combination of the two or more user preferences.