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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2014
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel Nikolaev Nikovski, Brooklinw, MA (US);
Bret Harsham, Newton, MA (US);
John Hershey, Winchester, MA (US);
Dirk Brinkman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method delivers information to satisfy current needs of a driver of a vehicle, by first acquiring data related to a current state of the vehicle. The current state and a predictive model are passed to a predictive procedure to determine choice probabilities for nodes in a choice tree (CT). Based on the choice probabilities, information related to the current needs to the driver are selected from a database storing commercial and non-commercial information. Then, the information is delivered to the driver, wherein the delivering is autonomous of the driver.