US 7,206,837 B2
Intelligent trip status notificationGeneral
US 7,206,837 B2
Intelligent trip status notification
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
William Vaughn
Art Unit:
2144 Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
Agent:
Inventors:
Doree Duncan Seligmann
Assignee:
Priority:
11/04/02
Filed:
11/04/02
Granted:
04/17/07
Expiration:
09/12/24
Abstract
Methods of providing trip status information periodically to a user in transit to a destination are disclosed. Trip status information comprises information and alerts based on estimates of various time-of-arrival metrics, such as expected time-of-arrival and earliest time-of-arrival. The estimates are based on a plurality of data, including calendrical time (the time and date), historical statistics, average speed, current weather, weather forecasts, current traffic, and traffic forecasts.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G01G01C21/36G01C