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Preventative traffic congestion social networking improvement system within a community

  • US 9,453,736 B2
  • Filed: 03/13/2014
  • Issued: 09/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for optimizing travel time for a community of GPS devices, the method comprising:

  • transmitting, to a particular GPS device, a selection of one or more alternate routes in use by one or more GPS devices of a subset of GPS devices within a community of GPS devices, wherein the subset of GPS devices and the particular GPS device are part of a same social network, wherein a social network is a group of users associated with a corresponding group of GPS devices that are collectively registered with the community routing system, and wherein each GPS device in the community is associated with a vehicle;

    providing a selection to the particular GPS device of a currently selected route and the one or more alternate routes in use by the other devices in the subset of GPS devices; and

    receiving a selection of an alternate optimized route from the one or more alternate routes in use by the subset of GPS devices.

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