Patent ID: 8385946
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying one or more preferences comprising one or more disfavored route progressions associated with a user, wherein a route progression includes a discrete length of a road that is part of a route for driving to a destination, and wherein a disfavored route progression includes a section of a route that the user wants to avoid while driving to the destination; obtaining information corresponding to a destination associated with the user; identifying one or more potential routes comprising a plurality of route progressions based on a current location of the user and the destination; for each route included in the one or more potential routes, analyzing the plurality of route progressions associated with the route based on weightings associated with the disfavored route progressions, wherein a weighting for a disfavored route progression indicates an extent to which the user avoids the disfavored route progression while traversing a route that includes the disfavored route progression, the weighting based on a ratio between a number of times the disfavored route progression is traveled during traversing the route that includes the disfavored route progression, and a total number of times the route has been traversed; ordering the one or more potential routes based on aggregate weightings of the disfavored route progressions associated with each potential route; and presenting the ordered one or more potential routes to the user for driving to the destination.