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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Debra Lin Repenning, Riverside, CT (US);
Ray Xiaohang Wang, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Yakov Okshtein, Far Rockaway, NY (US);
Farhan Shamsi, Rego Park, NY (US);
David Singleton, London, GB;
Lixin Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alan Newberger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chandrasekhar Thota, Saratoga, CA (US);
Douglas Alexander Gresham, Kitchener, CA;
Nicholas Fey, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marcus Alexander Foster, West Malling, GB;
Petra Cross, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andres Morales, San Francisco, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data.