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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1998
Richard Frederick Poppen, San Jose, CA (US);
Rodney Jude Fernandez, Fremont, CA (US);
Etak, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A typical pathfinding system provides a user with a set of directions for following a path from an origin to a destination in a network. If the user deviates from the path, the system for recalculating a path determines a new path which directs the user from the user's new location, which is off the original path, to the destination. To decrease the amount of time needed to determine the new path to the destination, the system adds links to the network. Each of the added links connect nodes from the original path directly to the destination. A new path is determined from the new location to the destination using the augmented network.