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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Zoltan Gyongyi, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Frank Worsley, San Francisco, CA (US);

Aditi Shrikumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ruwen Hess, Yarrow Point, WA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/32 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/32 (2013.01); G01C 21/3476 (2013.01); G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); G01C 21/362 (2013.01); H04W 4/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus related to determining one or more mapping characteristics of a map based on a current context of a user. A current context of a user may be identified and one or more mapping characteristics determined based on the current context. A map that is responsive to a mapping request of the user may be tailored to include the determined mapping characteristics.


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