Patent ID: 9689680
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a request from a user to initiate a navigable route calculation, wherein the request specifies one or more items of interest as a target destination of the navigable route calculation; determining, responsive to the request to initiate a navigable route calculation, current availability information of the one or more items of interest at at least one geographical destination, at least one alternate geographical recommendation, or a combination thereof, prior to initiating the navigable route calculation; determining current availability information of the one or more items of interest at at least one geographical destination, at least one alternate geographical recommendation, or a combination thereof prior to initiating the navigable route calculation, wherein the current availability information indicates whether the one or more items are available to the user at the at least one geographical destination, the at least one alternate destination, or a combination thereof; generating at least one recommendation of the at least one geographical destination, the at least one alternate geographical destination, or a combination thereof as the target destination for the navigable route calculation based, at least in part, on the current availability information; and presenting at least one message to the user regarding the current availability information, the at least one recommendation, or a combination thereof.