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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Christos Savvopoulos, Zurich, CH;
Stephan Seyboth, Zurich, CH;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for identifying and selecting personalized waypoints for presentation on a map are provided. In particular, a user's data can be analyzed to identify a plurality of candidate waypoints. The candidate waypoints can correspond to locations at which the user has a scheduled event, reservation, or appointment. When the user performs a search query in a mapping application or geographic information system, the plurality of candidate waypoints can be obtained and scored according to a scoring formula. One or more candidate waypoints can be selected based on the determined scores and presented on a personalized map in addition to the result of the search query. An exemplary scoring formula takes a candidate waypoint and a point of interest search result as inputs and analyzes a distance between the two locations and a likelihood that a user wants directions between the two locations.