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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Dawn Woodard, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Galina Nogin, Redmond, WA (US);
Paul B. Koch, Redmond, WA (US);
David Racz, Redmond, WA (US);
Moises Goldszmidt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for predicting variability of travel time for a trip at a particular time may utilize a machine learning model including latent variables that are associated with the trip. The machine learning model may be trained from historical trip data that is based on location-based measurements reported from mobile devices. Once trained, the machine learning model may be utilized for predicting variability of travel time. A process may include receiving an origin, a destination, and a start time associated with a trip, obtaining candidate routes that run from the origin to the destination, and predicting, based at least in part on the machine learning model, a probability distribution of travel time for individual ones of the candidate routes. One or more routes may be recommended based on the predicted probability distribution, and a measure of travel time for the recommended route(s) may be provided.