Patent Document ID: 9983016
Application ID: 15070480
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying a most likely partial route for a vehicle, the method comprising: receiving, by an apparatus remotely located with respect to the vehicle and comprising a processor, a memory, and a communication interface configured to communicate via at least one network, historical location information for the vehicle, the historical location information provided by a vehicle apparatus onboard the vehicle, wherein (a) the vehicle apparatus comprises a location sensor, (b) at least a portion of the historical location information was generated by the location sensor, (c) the historical location information indicates a path traveled by the vehicle during the vehicle's current travel, and (d) the path comprises a current location of the vehicle; querying, by the apparatus, a set of indexed partial routes based at least in part on at least a portion of the path indicated by the historical information, a partial route of the set of indexed partial routes having a compiled quantity assigned thereto; reducing, by the apparatus, the set of indexed partial routes to a set of candidate partial routes based at least in part on the path indicated by the historical location information; and identifying, by the apparatus, a most likely partial route along which the vehicle is currently traveling from the set of candidate partial routes based at least in part on the compiled quantity associated with each of the candidate partial routes.