Google Inc.

Ray Xiaohang Wang

Farhan Shamsi

Yakov Okshtein

David Singleton

Lixin Zhang

Douglas Alexander Gresham

Alan Newberger

Marcus Alexander Foster

Debra Lin Repenning

Chandrasekhar Thota

Nicholas Fey

Petra Cross

Andres Morales

Mohammad Hossain Sheikh Attar

Michael James Taylor

Marcus Alexander Folster

Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data.

Configurable point of interest alerts

Providing points of interest to user devices in variable zones

A location of a network user computing device is determined relative to a location of a point of interest. If the user device is determined to be stationary, the user device is monitored for movement, the movement resulting in re-determining the location of the user device relative to a location of the point of interest. If the user device is determined to be moving, the velocity of the user device is matched with a predetermined velocity, and a preliminary estimated time of arrival to the point of interest is determined based on the predetermined velocity matched to the user device. At a later time that is based on a function of the preliminary estimated time of arrival, an estimated time of arrival to the point of interest is verified based on the predetermined velocity matched to the user device.

Adaptive location updating

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