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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2022
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Michael John Neville, Bunya, AU;

Ryan David Hapgood, Cannon Hill, AU;

Jeremy S. Jonas, Cibinong, ID;

Ken Peter Gilmore Wilson, Brisbane, AU;

Charles Plunkett O'Farrell, Windsor, AU;

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01); H04W 4/022 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02);
Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods are provided for enhanced geographical caching of estimated arrival times. A method may include receiving respective user inputs indicative of respective users being in transit to a destination location from within a geographic region; determining, for the first user and the second user, a first estimated time of arrival from a first geographical area to the destination location, the first geographical area including the first location and the second location; identifying a third location of the first device at a third time, wherein the third location is within the first geographical area; determining that a time-to-live (TTL) of the first estimated time of arrival has not expired at the third time; and refraining from recalculating the first estimated time of arrival.


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