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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2010
Paul B. French, Cork, IE;
Eric Thiebaut-george, Cork, IE;
Niall Jude Lucey, Cork, IE;
Edith Helen Stern, Somers, NY (US);
Michael Truss, Cork, IE;
Paul B. French, Cork, IE;
Eric Thiebaut-George, Cork, IE;
Niall Jude Lucey, Cork, IE;
Edith Helen Stern, Somers, NY (US);
Michael Truss, Cork, IE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.