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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christine B. McGavran, Pacifica, CA (US);
Wesley Yue, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Y. Tremblay, San Jose, CA (US);
Supratik Maitra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Usama M. Hajj, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Andrich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric L. Grundstrom, Oakland, CA (US);
J. Paul McCabe, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric J. Albert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ameya A. Limaye, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Graydon Armstrong, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention provide a navigation application that uses a novel traffic notification scheme for providing traffic related notifications during a navigation presentation that is provided by a device. While providing a navigation presentation, the application iteratively monitors traffic conditions along the route. When traffic conditions meet a set of one or more threshold criteria, the application identifies a type of traffic notification that it should provide from several possible traffic notifications types. Next, without receiving any input from outside of the device, the application provides a traffic notification that is associated with the selected traffic notification type. In some embodiments, the traffic notification types include a notification (1) relating to traffic congestion along the current route, (2) relating to one or more faster routes that can replace the current route, and (3) regarding a road closure or extreme delay along the current route.