Patent ID: 8725612
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G01C,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A personalized real-time location-based travel management method, the method including the steps of (a) obtaining, by a computer processor, a departure point and a destination point for multimodal travel input from a user; (b) generating, in the computer processor, a list of multimodal candidate routes for the user including one or more modes of travel between said departure point and said destination, wherein the computer processor is shared by a plurality of users, which includes the user, to generate respective routes for the plurality of users; (c) obtaining, by the computer processor, a selection from the user of a first route from the list of candidate multimodal routes, acquiring travel information relating to the first route selected while the user travels the first route, and providing the travel information to at least one of a personal travel assistant of the user or the computer processor while the user travels the first route; (d) analyzing, in at least one of the personal travel assistant or the computer processor, the travel information to detect an unexpected event during travel of the first route and generating an alternative list of candidate multimodal routes in response to said unexpected event; and (e) purchasing, by the computer processor, an alternative multimodal route, from the alternative list of multimodal candidate routes, among different transportation providers during travel of the first route by the user, wherein the alternative multimodal route contains sub-routes provided by different transportation providers.