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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2015
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Sridevi Rajendran, Chennai, IN;
Prabhu V. Mohan, Chennai, IN;
Vijay A. Senthil, Chennai, IN;
Vinodkrishnan Surianarayanan, Chennai, IN;
Ramya Sundarraman, Chennai, IN;
Rajasundaram Ganesan, Chennai, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving, at route recommendation server device, travel data associated with a plurality of mobile devices. The method includes indexing segments of a plurality of routes based on a corresponding number of users of each of the plurality of segments, and receiving a recommendation request from a particular mobile device. The recommendation request includes a starting point and a destination for a trip. The method also includes identifying a plurality of routes between the starting point and the destination based on the travel data, and providing at least one recommendation for a recommended route based on a relative popularity of the recommended route among a number of users that use each of the plurality of routes.