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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
Michelle Davis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Angela Richards Jones, Durham, NC (US);
Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, NC (US);
Michelle Davis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Angela Richards Jones, Durham, NC (US);
Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Planning a route for a convoy of automobiles, including: identifying a plurality of automobiles included in a convoy; planning, for the convoy by a route planning module, a route from an origin to a destination in dependence upon current automobile traffic between the origin and the destination, automobile characteristics of the convoy, and aggregate user preferences of convoy automobile users; and providing for display, by the route planning module to a route display module of each automobile in the convoy, the convoy's route.