Patent ID: 9057612
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating unified directions, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, a list of one or more routes from an origin to a destination for each of two or more different modes of transportation, each route having an associated duration; penalizing, by the one or more computing devices, the durations of routes from each list that are subsequent to a first route from the respective list, wherein penalizing the durations of the routes comprises increasing the durations of the routes, wherein the durations of the routes of each list that are subsequent to a first route of the respective list are penalized by at least 10%; combining, by the one or more computing devices, one or more routes from each list to generate a combined list of routes for each of the two or more different modes of transportation; and sorting, by the one or more computing devices, the combined list of routes to generate a sorted list of routes based, at least in part, on the durations and penalized durations of routes.