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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120029804 | System and Method for Multi-Resolution Routing A system, method and computer program product for efficiently generating on- and off-road travel routes using multi-resolution maps including a map generator (108), map database (106), route generator (100), heuristic generator (102), and sea... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029805 | Vehicle Navigation System and Method An efficient route-defining method includes determining a route to a destination. The exemplary method also includes determining a wireless device to server connection type and assigning a tolerance in accordance with a connection type. The tolerance is usable to determ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029811 | PND REPOSITIONING DETECTOR FOR BETTER NAVIGATION ACCURACY IN A CAR An apparatus and method for a personal navigation apparatus comprising a personal navigation device (PND) for providing navigational guidance information. The PND may include a single-dimensional magnetic detector for sensing magnetic flux amplitudes of a magnetic field... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022776 | Method and Apparatus for Advanced Intelligent Transportation Systems An intelligent transportation system that utilizes identification codes, databases and preprogrammed action steps contained within those databases is presented. The system thereby allows rich transportation communications to be made to the operators of vehicles while ma... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016576 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH ECOLOGICAL ROUTE BASED DESTINATION GUIDANCE MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating candidate routes from a start location to a destination; calculating a route travel fuel cost with a vehicle fuel consumption rate of a vehicle; calculating a route acceleration fuel cost from an accelera... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010805 | VEHICLE-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING PERSONAL INFORMATION AND EVENTS Various embodiments may include a vehicle-based system and method for managing a user's personal information and events. A user's personal communications (such as verbal and non-verbal communications) may be monitored to identify one or more unscheduled personal events.... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120010807 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH TRAFFIC ESTIMATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a navigation system includes: calculating a travel segment of a navigation route, the travel segment having a travel feature; estimating a base time for the travel segment; estimating an incremental time for the travel feature; and calculating a... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001743 | Mine Personnel Carrier Integrated Information Display In certain embodiments, a mine personnel carrier includes an integrated information display and one or more processing units. The processing units may access life support data from devices associated with a life support subsystem of a mine personnel carrier. The life su... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004842 | PRESENTATION OF A GENERATED ROUTE WITH A SPECIFIABLE ROAD Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for presenting a generated route with a specifiable road in a mapping system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for presenting a generated route with a specifiable road(... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING NECESSARY TIME FOR TRAVEL BASED ON WAITING TIME Provided are a system and method for computing a total travel time according to a transportation type, based, in part, on a waiting time to wait for traveling in the transportation. A system for computing a necessary time for travel may include an input unit to receive ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320120 | METHOD OF OPERATING A NAVIGATION SYSTEM TO BLOCK UNWANTED ADVERTISEMENTS A method of operating a navigation system to block advertising messages is disclosed. A spatially based advertising filtering parameter defining a portion of a geographic region and an advertising message are obtained. A current location of the navigation system and a l... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320114 | Map Annotation Messaging A map annotation message including map annotation data that represents a route is received by a receiving device. The map annotation data is analyzed to determine a route represented by the map annotation message, and the determined route is presented by the receiving d... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320113 | GENERATING DRIVING ROUTE TRACES IN A NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING A PROBABILITY MODEL A navigation system includes a display screen and a host machine operable for calculating and displaying a recommended travel route within a road network using a Markov or other probability model. The probability model statistically models a distribution pattern of spee... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320115 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND NAVIGATION SERVICE METHOD FOR THE SAME A navigation system for a vehicle and a navigation method for the same are disclosed. The navigation system collects transportation information and fuel efficiency information from several source vehicles located in a specific region, generates an optimum route for the ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SMART ZOOMING OF A GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION An approach is provided for custom zooming of geographic representation. A custom zooming application determines an input specifying a level of zoom for rendering a geographic representation presented at a device, the geographic representation including a plurality of o... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309926 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A ROUTE FOR EFFICIENT ENERGY CONSUMPTION Various embodiments relate to determining a route for efficient energy consumption. Data defining one or more routes and one or more consumption influencing parameters which influence a consumption of an energy source of the vehicle along the one or more routes may be r... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313650 | INERTIAL SENSOR ORIENTATION DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT CORRECTION FOR NAVIGATION DEVICE Implementations relating to methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for obtaining corrected inertial measurements based on an observed orientation of an inertial sensor system relative to a reference body.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313648 | Probabilistic Map Matching From A Plurality Of Observational And Contextual Factors Systems, methods, and devices are described for implementing map matching techniques relating to measured location data. Probabilistic models, including temporal Bayesian network models and Hidden Markov Models, may be used for combining multiple classes of evidence rel... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313651 | Travel route mapping based on radiation exposure risks Exemplary methods, systems and components enable detection and/or monitoring and/or control of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure of target body-related portions of a user operating a telecommunication device. In some embodiments a risk-assessment output is provid... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313660 | METHOD FOR EXCHANGING MESSAGES IN A NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS Method and device for exchanging messages in a VLC navigation system is provided, in which a map server generates a provision message in the form of visible light signals through all lamps in an area, using a PLC network, where a navigation service is provided, a termin... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307166 | METHOD FOR COMPUTING AN ENERGY EFFICIENT ROUTE Probe data is analyzed to derive Longitudinal Speed Profiles (LSPs) and an Optimal Longitudinal Speed Profile (18) for each road segment or link in a digital map network. The Longitudinal Speed Profiles (LSPs) profiles are calculated during defined time spans whe... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307167 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHICALLY TARGETED INFORMATION AND ADVERTISING A system and method of providing information based on the location of the target. The system is ideal for use with voice based technology, and uses street segments to allow users to identify their location by cross street. The system can target advertisements to users b... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307168 | Weather-sensitive route mapping A wireless phone navigation system that obtains and uses weather system data to alert and re-route a user around inclement weather located at a point on the user's navigated route, as predicted to be at a time in the future that the user would otherwise be expected to t... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301830 | GEOMETRICALLY CONSTRAINING A TRAVEL ROUTE USING A NAVIGATION SYSTEM A navigation system for use with a geospatial database includes a presentation device and a host machine in communication with the database. The host machine executes an algorithm to calculate a geometrically-constrained auxiliary travel route between a route origin and... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301837 | OPTIMUM ROUTE DETERMINATION WITH TILING An optimum route search may be conducted through the use of a tiling overlay on the network of road segments. Overlaying the tiling (grid) over the road segments allows for a reduction of the number of road segments considered for an optimum path as road segments can be... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301842 | DISPLAY OF NAVIGATION LIMITS ON AN ONBOARD DISPLAY ELEMENT OF A VEHICLE A method of displaying navigation limits for a planned travel route of a vehicle is presented here. The method calculates estimated navigation limits for the vehicle using an onboard subsystem of the vehicle, where the estimated navigation limits represent self-assessed... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301840 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH SHARED TRANSPORTATION AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving a transport request for transporting a transport entity; identifying one or more transportation modes based on the transport request for locating a transportation provider; generating a navigation instruct... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301831 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Map-Based Snippets Various methods for generating map-based snippets are provided. One example method includes determining that a content page identifier includes an indication that a content page includes a map. In this regard, data for rendering the content page may include at least des... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301832 | Searching Similar Trajectories by Locations Techniques for providing a trajectory route to multiple geographical locations of interest are described. This disclosure describes receiving global position system (GPS) logs associated with respective individual devices, each of the GPS logs including trajectories con... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301833 | ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCH SERVER, AND ROUTE GUIDANCE METHOD A route guidance system comprises first and second route search severs, which are provided with first and second areas as service providing areas, and terminals. When the terminals request route search, the first route search server determines the second route search se... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295497 | DETERMINING ALTERNATIVE ROUTES Alternative routes to an optimal route may be determined and presented to a user via a computing device. Alternative routes are selected from candidate routes that meet admissibility criteria. In an implementation, admissibility of a candidate route (in order for it to ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295498 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE HAVING A COMMUTE TIME FUNCTION AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Apparatuses and methods to operate a commute time function of a communications device are described herein. In one embodiment, the commute time function is automatically activated based on an event and is then performed by (i) determining an up-to-date commute time base... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295424 | MANAGING AUTONOMOUS MACHINES ACROSS MULTIPLE AREAS The different illustrative embodiments provide a system for autonomous machine management comprising a number of autonomous machines, a number of nodes, a performance estimation module, and a navigation system. The number of autonomous machines is configured to perform ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288760 | Navigation system A navigation system includes: a map information acquiring unit for acquiring map information; an HOV lane decision unit for deciding whether an HOV lane is included in a road represented by the map information acquired by the map information acquiring unit or not; a roa... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288767 | Navigation system A navigation system includes: a map information acquiring unit for acquiring map information; an HOV lane decision unit for deciding whether an HOV lane is included in a road represented by the map information acquired by the map information acquiring unit or not; a roa... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288761 | Navigation system A navigation system includes: a map information acquiring unit for acquiring map information; an HOV lane decision unit for deciding whether an HOV lane is included in a road represented by the map information acquired by the map information acquiring unit or not; a roa... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND/OR RECEIVING AT LEAST ONE LOCATION REFERENCE, ENHANCED BY AT LEAST ONE FOCUSING FACTOR A method and system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes at least one of obtaining and receiving information regarding at least one location reference at a server (302) for transmission to at least one remote device; determining at least... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288770 | SPEED LIMIT CHANGE NOTIFICATION Techniques are described that may be implemented in a mobile electronic device providing navigation functionality to furnish a notification that the indicated speed limit of a roadway being traversed has changed. In an implementation, the display of the mobile electroni... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282572 | Method of Collecting Information for a Geographic Database for Use with a Navigation System A method for operating a navigation system computes a pedestrian route for travel by a pedestrian. A request for the pedestrian route between a first location inside a building and a second location inside the building is obtained. A geographic database associated with ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282571 | METHODS FOR PREDICTING DESTINATIONS FROM PARTIAL TRAJECTORIES EMPLOYING OPEN- AND CLOSED-WORLD MODELING METHODS The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate inferring probability distributions over the destinations and/or routes of a user, from observations about context and partial trajectories of a trip. Destinations of a trip are based on at least... | 11/17/2011 |
