Patent ID: 9395197
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G01C

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing electronic navigation comprising: identifying a first route to a destination, the first route including a first primary component that is part of the first route; providing, to a user using an electronic navigation device, electronic navigation along the first route to the destination including re-routing the user to the first primary component based on the user diverging from the first route and the first primary component remaining a part of a preferred route to the destination according to routing settings at the time of the rerouting; based on the electronic navigation, monitoring, using the electronic navigation device, whether the user is following directions to the first primary component in reaching the destination, wherein the monitoring comprises tracking times in which the user has followed a path other than a path included in directions to the first primary component provided in the electronic navigation and the re-routing of the user to the first primary component; based on the monitoring, computing a metric that measures the user's avoidance of the first primary component in reaching the destination, wherein computing the metrics comprises: automatically, without user intervention, determining whether the user appears to be avoiding the first primary component in reaching the destination based on the computed metric that measures the user's avoidance of the first primary component in reaching the destination; and in response to a determination that the user appears to be avoiding the first primary component in reaching the destination, automatically, without user intervention, controlling the electronic navigation device to perform an operation directed to using a second primary component in identifying a second route to the destination despite the first primary component remaining a part of a preferred route to the destination according to routing settings at the time of the controlling.