Patent ID: 9008888
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A method for providing cost-based navigation, the method comprising: receiving user preference data; generating a route from a starting point to a primary destination; receiving search criteria for one or more intermediate points of interest; identifying one or more intermediate points of interest based on the received search criteria; retrieving data associated with each of the one or more identified intermediate points of interest; calculating a route deviation cost associated with each of the one or more identified intermediate points of interest, each route deviation cost being calculated between one of the identified intermediate points of interest and the route intermediate the starting point and the primary destination; calculating a total cost associated with each of the one or more identified intermediate points of interest, each total cost being calculated along the route from the starting point and including the calculated route deviation cost associated with a respective one of the identified intermediate points of interest; filtering the one or more identified intermediate points of interest according to at least one of the route deviation costs and the total costs of each of the one or more identified intermediate points of interest; presenting the filtered identified intermediate points of interest.