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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Waldeck Technology, Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Scott Curtis, Durham, NC (US);
Eric P. Halber, Morrisville, NC (US);
Gregory M. Evans, Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven L. Petersen, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Waldeck Technology, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter is directed to systems and methods for providing passive crowd-sourced alternate route recommendations. In one embodiment, locations of users of a number of mobile location-aware devices are tracked over time. Upon receiving a request, users of mobile location-aware devices that have traveled from a desired start location to a desired stop location are identified. At least one of the different routes taken by one or more users from the desired start location to the desired stop location is provided to the requestor as at least one recommended alternate route. The different routes taken by the one or more users from the desired start location to the desired stop location include routes taken that begin before the desired start location and go through the start location and routes taken that stop beyond the desired stop location and go through the desired stop location.