Patent ID: 8494767
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A method for execution in a computing device, the method comprising: maintaining trip settings defining preferences for combining considerations of practicality for making a given point of interest an intermediate location to be visited during a given trip; obtaining a starting location and a finishing location for a trip; obtaining a plurality of sets of points of interest, each set of points of interest having at least one point of interest; determining a plurality of possible combinations for visiting points of interest, each possible combination comprising one point of interest from each set of points of interest; and for each possible combination determined, automatically determining an indication of practicality for visiting the points of interest of the possible combination during the trip based on both the starting location and the finishing location for the trip; wherein for each possible combination determined, automatically determining the indication of practicality for visiting the points of interest of the possible combination comprises: automatically estimating how long the trip will become if the points of interest of the possible combination are visited during the trip to produce a first consideration; automatically estimating how expensive the trip will become if the points of interest are visited during the trip to produce a second consideration; and creating a combination of the first and second considerations according to the trip settings to determine the indication of practicality.