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Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015

Filed:

May. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Christos Savvopoulos, Zurich, CH;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for unified directions are described herein. The method includes receiving a list of one or more routes from an origin to a destination for each of two or more different modes of transportation, each route having an associated duration. The durations of routes from each list that are subsequent to a first route from the respective list are penalized. One or more routes from each list are combined to generate a combined list of routes for each of the two or more different modes of transportation. The combined list of routes is sorted to generate a sorted list of routes based, at least in part, on the durations and penalized durations of the routes.


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