Patent ID: 9696175
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G01C,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, carried out on a waypoint server system, for incorporating a new waypoint, based upon a proposed place of interest (POI), into a current trip defined in a waypoint server system for a vehicle, the method comprising: configuring, on the waypoint server system, a trip definition for the current trip, the trip definition including: determining, on the waypoint server system, a proposed POI for the trip definition based upon: issuing, by the waypoint server system through a mobile wireless network link to an in-vehicle user device, the proposed POI for presentation to a vehicle occupant; wherein during the determining, the waypoint server system processes the collection of potential proposed POI instances, to render the proposed POI, by: wherein POI instances are categorized within the waypoint server system by POI type, and wherein the determining the proposed POI further comprise identifying a particular locality as a potential waypoint, and establishing a user selected group POI by selecting a POI type-specific POI instance for each one of a plurality of categories.