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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185299 | Route search device and route search method A route to a destination in which required travel time barely varies depending on weather is searched for without referring to weather forecast or weather information. A route search device comprises following means: a storage medium for storing traffic information ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180562 | System and method for taxi route entry parsing A method and apparatus for building, creating, or otherwise specifying an airport ground taxi navigation route for an aircraft from an input of the route is disclosed. The apparatus includes a keypad, voice recognition device, or other entry device, a processor, a d... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175795 | Route search apparatus An apparatus calculates a coefficient b that reflects a road slope condition of each section based on an altitude difference of both ends of each section stored in a memory, and identifies a carbon dioxide discharge amount that changes in proportion to the distance ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8150615 | Apparatus for monitoring fluid levels in a remotely located storage tank An improved system for delivering propane or other consumable liquid to remotely located storage tanks including a novel combination of remote monitoring of customer tanks and an improved method of using the remote monitoring data to optimally schedule deliveries, i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140256 | Dynamic ride matching system A ride matching method is disclosed herein. The ride matching method addresses many of the limitations associated with traditional dynamic ride matching applications. The method is unique in its ability to accept trips with schedules that cannot be expressed in term... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8121780 | Method for offering a user reward based on a chosen navigation route A method for offering a user reward based on a chosen navigation route includes calculating alternative routes from a starting location to a destination location by taking into consideration route segments including public transportation route segments and road netw... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121781 | System and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation A system and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation. The system includes a computer-based vehicle unit located in a vehicle, a gateway configured to wirelessly send and receive trip information to and fr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121782 | System for providing information through interaction with a printed page A system for providing information is disclosed. The system has a server which stores page descriptors. A printer is also includes which prints a printed page with visible and invisible data. The invisible data is indicative of one or more of the page descriptors. A... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8103443 | System and method for delivering departure notifications The present invention provides a system and method for determining the necessary departure time to allow for an on-time or desired arrival time at a particular location over a particular route based on the evaluation of historic, present, and predicted road conditio... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095303 | Identifying a route configured to travel through multiple points of interest A computer-implemented method for identifying a route that is configured to travel through multiple points of interest includes receiving a query that includes an origin location, a destination location, and at least a first point of interest and a second point of i... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8050859 | Navigation apparatus A navigation apparatus includes a route searching unit 130 for searching for a route from a current position determined by a current position determining means to a destination inputted by an input unit on the basis of map data acquired by a map data acquirin... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046163 | Interactive pedestrian routing method The present invention's network-based directions-provision methodology typically features the establishment of two ranking schemes that reversely parallel each other. The “personal” ranking scheme ranks all permitted persons in terms of the degree of access perm... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032296 | Method and system for providing video mapping and travel planning services An approach is provided for providing a first-person perspective video mapping service. Information corresponding to a geographic area is received from a subscriber of the mapping service over a network. One or more first-person perspective videos of at least a port... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032297 | Method and system for displaying navigation information on an electronic map A mapping systems includes determining that a map object (“MO”) is outside the visible area of a map displayed; calculating the direction, distance and travel-time to the MO, creating an object vector indicator (“OVI”) and displaying the OVI on the map-displ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014943 | Method and system for displaying social networking navigation information A mapping system associated with a social network includes determining that a social networking map object (“MO”) is outside a visible area of a map displayed; calculating the direction, distance and travel-time to the MO (e.g. a social network member, a locatio... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000892 | Pedestrian mapping system The present invention is directed toward a system and method for a web-based mapping and routing service for pedestrians, which may include wheeled transportation (e.g. buses). More specifically, the present invention is directed toward use on a college campus. The ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000893 | Use of a situational network for navigation and travel A method of obtaining navigation information includes creating a first itinerary for a navigation route corresponding to a travel event for a first individual. Navigation information is searched for related to at least one location along the first itinerary via a si... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7974777 | Navigation device and method for using a traffic message channel A method and a navigation device are disclosed for sharing at least one location message with at least one other device. The navigation device includes a receiver to receive multiple traffic message channels, an input device to receive a user input indicating a freq... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970532 | Flight path planning to reduce detection of an unmanned aerial vehicle Methods and systems for planning, managing, and executing the flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle are disclosed. In particular, the methods and systems are designed to reduce the likelihood that the UAV will be detected by determining a flight path based on th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966122 | System and method for flight plan data capture A system and method for providing to a user a candidate list of flight plans that specify one or more planned routes of flight from one location to another location, such routes satisfying certain criteria. These criteria include ranking the candidate list of flight... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953548 | Location-based information determination Techniques are described for determining and providing location-based information, including based on decomposing a geographic area into numerous smaller areas and using one or more layers of polygons to represent various of the smaller areas. In some situations, lo... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949465 | Method and apparatus for routing ocean going vessels to avoid treacherous environments A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for generating a route for a vessel to travel from a start point to an end point. A start point and an end point for the vessel are identified. A forecast of wave conditions during a period o... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945383 | Route determination method and apparatus for navigation system A navigation system is able to find an optimum route to a destination even when a large non-digitized area exists between a starting point to the destination. The navigation system produces processing points based on a particular shape and size of the large non-digi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937216 | System for monitoring propane or other consumable liquid in remotely located storage tanks An improved apparatus and method for monitoring the levels of propane or other consumable liquid in remotely located storage tanks and coordinating delivery of liquid to those tanks, including an improved method of using the remote monitoring data to identify out-of... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937215 | Apparatus for monitoring fluid levels in a remotely located storage tank An improved system for delivering propane or other consumable liquid to remotely located storage tanks including a novel combination of remote monitoring of customer tanks and an improved method of using the remote monitoring data to optimally schedule deliveries, i... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925432 | System and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation A system and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation. The system includes a computer-based vehicle unit located in a vehicle, a gateway configured to wirelessly send and receive trip information to and fr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925431 | System and method for removing particulate matter from a diesel particulate filter A system is provided for removing particulate matter from a diesel particulate filter. The system includes an engine controller coupled to the diesel engine, and to a locomotive controller. The locomotive controller includes an algorithm to create a trip plan to opt... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920962 | System and method for coordinating movement of mobile drive units A method for moving one or more mobile drive units within a workspace includes receiving, from a first mobile drive unit, a reservation request requesting use of a first path segment to move in a first direction. The method further includes determining that a second... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7890252 | Map-data-generation device and map-generation method used therefor, and navigation device and route-search method used therefor A map-data-generation device and a map-generation method used therefor, and a navigation device and a route-search method used therefor are provided. The map-data-generation device generates hierarchical guide-route-search-map data by using information about a road ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7860646 | Method and apparatus for routing ocean going vessels to avoid treacherous environments A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for generating a route for a vessel to travel from a start point to an end point. A start point and an end point for the vessel are identified. A forecast of wave conditions during a period o... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7840341 | Schedule setting and processing system A system which automatically makes a travel plan by using on-vehicle or portable terminal. The system can prepare a travel plan in which the concrete destination and route are specified when rough positional and temporal conditions are inputted. The objective area a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7818118 | Method for planning the velocity of a craft along a route A method for planning the velocity of a craft along a predetermined route, where said method comprises the step of transforming demands and limitations of said route and said craft into a time-distance domain. Said planning subsequently takes place in said domain. T... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7801675 | System and method of identifying portions of roads A system and method splices into, or replaces routes identified based on road geometry with routes taken by the same user or other users to create alternate routes that may be selected by a user to display, for example, on a map or for which driving directions can b... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7774133 | Method and apparatus for trip routing with configurable constraints A method of analyzing a path by defining a plurality of contiguous geographical regions, each to have a uniform value of a characteristic affecting travel through the region and evaluating the path from a point in an origin region through an intermediate region to a... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774132 | Providing navigation directions In one embodiment, a navigation system provides navigation directions within particular locations within a facility, such as within a corporate campus, airport, resort, building, etc. The navigation system may respond to navigation requests for different types of fa... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761226 | Interactive pedestrian routing system The present invention's network-based directions-provision methodology typically features the establishment of two ranking schemes that reversely parallel each other. The “personal” ranking scheme ranks all permitted persons in terms of the degree of access perm... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761227 | Route determination and driver warning system A system for determining a route and for warning a driver of a vehicle and corresponding methods are provided. The systems include storage units that store road segment passage restriction data and vehicle passage restriction data. The systems further include a work... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756631 | Method for realtime scaling of the vehicle routing problem An absolutely optimal routing or a quasi-optimal routing is computed for a first plurality of resources m to be routed to a second plurality of resource destinations n, depending on a count of m and n. Three different algorithms are used. For the case where the coun... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751970 | Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and computer product To safely and easily provide information that an operator needs, when a mobile body has started to move, a first acquiring unit and a second acquiring unit respectively acquire corresponding image information. Using the acquired image information and map information... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7734411 | Predicted path selection system and method for hazard coding in selectively constrained aircraft control systems A surveillance system detects potential hazards and alerts the pilot to them. The alerts can be modified to indicate proximity to the predicted path of the aircraft. An autopilot receives instructions from a flight management system (FMS) regarding a planned path an... | 06/08/2010 |
