Patent ID: 9672740
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06F,G08G,H04W

Claim:
1. A traveling method for a passenger that uses one or more transportation operators, the method comprising the steps of: generating, by the one or more transportation operators, a plurality of trip patterns which indicate use of one or more services provided by the one or more operators based on transit data collected by the one or more operators that is unique to a passenger, and each of the trip patterns includes an origin location, a destination location, and a time range having a beginning time and an end time; calculating, by the one or more transportation operators, a frequency value of each of the trip patterns, each of the frequency values indicates a frequency that a trip pattern is used by the passenger during a period of time based on the transit data, and each frequency value is calculated by dividing a number of times one of the respective trip patterns is used by the passenger during the period of time; sending, by the one or more transportation operators, the trip patterns and the calculated frequency values to a mobile device of the passenger; receiving, by the mobile device of the passenger, the trip patterns and the calculated frequency values from the one or more operators; associating, by the mobile device of the passenger, combinations of two or more of the trip patterns with each other to generate a plurality of travel patterns based on at least one of whether a destination of one trip pattern is the same as an origin of another trip pattern and whether an end time of the time range of the one trip pattern is within a predetermined time of a beginning time of the time range of the another trip pattern, wherein each of the travel patterns is assigned a travel pattern frequency value, which is based on a frequency value of a trip pattern of the travel pattern thereof; sending, by the one or more transportation operators, disruption information which includes a starting location, an ending location, a starting time, and a service resume time; receiving, by the mobile device of the passenger, the disruption information; determining, by the mobile device of the passenger, whether the passenger is affected by comparing the disruption information with the travel patterns; requesting, by the mobile device of the passenger, a detour when the passenger is affected; receiving, by the mobile device of the passenger, a detour suggestion; and displaying, by the mobile device of the passenger, the detour suggestion and the disruption information.