Patent ID: 8204675

Claim:
A method in a navigation system for determining a probability that a point of interest is accessible to customers for commercial transactions at an estimated time of arrival, the method comprising the steps of: responsive to receiving a mailing address of a selected candidate point of interest and a calculated estimated time of arrival at the selected candidate point of interest from a portable navigation device via a network, determining by a server device an identification of a utility metering device at the selected candidate point of interest based on the received mailing address; determining by the server device whether the utility metering device at the selected candidate point of interest provides utility usage data telemetry; responsive to determining that the utility metering device at the selected candidate point of interest does not provide utility usage data telemetry, determining by the server device an identification of a neighboring utility metering device near the selected candidate point of interest based on the received mailing address; determining by the server device whether the neighboring utility metering device near the selected candidate point of interest provides utility usage data telemetry; responsive to determining that the neighboring utility metering device near the selected candidate point of interest does provide utility usage data telemetry, requesting by the server device utility usage data from the neighboring utility metering device near the selected candidate point of interest via the network; receiving by the server device the utility usage data from the neighboring utility metering device near the selected candidate point of interest via the network; assigning by the server device a confidence level value to the utility usage data received from the neighboring utility metering device near the selected candidate point of interest; and storing by the server device the utility usage data received from the neighboring utility metering device in a data storage device.