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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2015
Tomtom Traffic B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Dionysius Nicolaas, Amsterdam, NL;
Vladislav Dmitrev, Almere, NL;
David Silsbury, Amsterdam, NL;
Rory Jones, Amsterdam, NL;
TOMTOM TRAFFIC B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of providing information associated with a point of interest (POI), comprising: communicating location information indicative of a determined geographic location of a portable device to a server computer; receiving at least one POI-map from the server computer based on the location information, wherein each POI-map is associated with at least one POI and comprises segments representative of navigable elements of a navigable network; determining a segment of a received POI-map corresponding to the determined geographic location of the portable device; and outputting a notification associated with a POI of the received POI-map based on the navigable segment.