Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alexander Bussmann

Thomas G Phillips

Zhangwei Xu

Martin D Hall

Joseph N Figueroa

Ali Khan

Jennifer Hilary Kays

Dhiresh Kumar

Gaurav Singhal

A location based service using combinatorial data sources for routing and time information is disclosed. One embodiment comprises using a user location, a first data set from a first data source containing information related to a first waypoint, and a second data set from a second data source containing information related to a second waypoint to determine a tour of the first waypoint and the second waypoint. In this way, the embodiment may send the tour of the first waypoint and the second waypoint to a navigation device.

Location based services with combinatorial data sources

A navigation device includes a communication subsystem and a navigation subsystem. The communication subsystem communicates with a remote navigation database via a gateway using variable-size data payloads. Each variable-size data payload is accompanied by a content-identifier and a size-identifier. The navigation subsystem determines a current position of the navigation device and encodes the current position of the navigation device as one or more position payloads that are sent from the communication subsystem to the remote navigation database via the gateway. Each position payload is sent with an accompanying content-identifier and size-identifier.

Navigation communication with self-identifying elements

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Alexander Bussmann