Tomtom North America, Inc.

Tomtom Global Content B.v.

Tsia Kuznetsov

Edward Suranyi

Ilya Sandler

A method and system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes at least one of obtaining and receiving information regarding at least one location reference at a server () for transmission to at least one remote device; determining at least one path of the at least one location reference corresponding to at least one pair of points within mapping information at the server (); computing at least one focusing factor at the server () based upon encoded information corresponding to the determined at least one path of the at least one location reference, and enhancing the at least one location reference by the computed at least one focusing factor; and transmitting the at least one location reference enhanced by the computed at least one focusing factor from the server () to the at least one remote device.

Method and system for transmitting and/or receiving at least one location reference, enhanced by at least one focusing factor

A system and method for computing routing on a road network are described. One embodiment includes pre-processing routing data for one or more environmental profiles integrated into a hierarchy, dynamically adding links to the hierarchy in response to real-time data on traffic conditions, and cluster-routing to approximate routing travel costs based on realtime traffic data A further embodiment includes a) identifying one or more portions of a road network as being more preferable than normal based on real-time data, b) expressing the one or more portions of the road network as a sequence of locations comprising a uniquely identifiable path, c) using the sequence of locations comprising a uniquely identifiable path to add one or more links to an already constructed hierarchical network of roads, and d) enabling a pathfinding algorithm to adjust to the real-time data.

Methods and systems for dynamically adaptive road network hierarchy and routing

A method and end user mapping device () are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving information from a remote server (), at a device, the received information including at least one location reference enhanced by at least one focusing factor, computed at the remote server () based upon encoded information corresponding to at least one path of the at least one location reference; and reconstructing the at least one path of the at least one location reference at the device, based upon the received at least one location reference enhanced by the at least one focusing factor.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Tsia Kuznetsov