Patent ID: 9677886
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for recommending locations of interest along a route from an origin to a destination, comprising: calculating, by a processor of a device, the route from the origin to the destination for display on a user interface of a user device; determining, by the processor of the device, a recommendation of a location of interest in response to calculating the route, wherein the location of interest is a location with a media density score greater than a threshold and within a range of deviation from the route, and wherein the media density score is calculated based on a number of one or more media files related to the location of interest and a ranking of each of the one or more media files, wherein each ranking of the one or more media files is based on one or more factors that indicate an importance of a media file of the one or more media files to other users besides a user of the user device; and displaying, by the device, the recommendation on the user interface of the user device.