Mapping App Predictive Destination Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile devices require users to manually request information, such as routes, which limits their ability to access and utilize the vast amount of personalized data available to them.
Innovation Solution
A mapping application that predicts future destinations of a mobile device and provides dynamic notifications with information about the predicted destination, including a route, which can be selected for turn-by-turn or non-prompting navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users manually request information (e.g., enter route requests), then the device can provide specific information, but the efficiency and convenience of accessing personalized data is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mapping application automatically monitors device location and predicts destinations without requiring user input. The system serves itself by proactively identifying likely destinations and presenting navigation options, eliminating the need for users to manually enter route requests while maintaining high efficiency in accessing personalized data.
Solution Approach 2:
The application performs preliminary actions by continuously monitoring location data and pre-computing predicted destinations before the user needs navigation information. This advance preparation allows the system to present relevant navigation options automatically when the device approaches predicted destinations, significantly improving access efficiency without manual intervention.
2Extent of automation
If the mapping application continuously monitors and predicts destinations, then automated information provision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and utilizes only the necessary location data from the device's existing tracking capabilities to generate destination predictions. By focusing on essential location information rather than processing all available data, the system achieves automated prediction functionality while minimizing the complexity increase required for the prediction computation system.
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AI summary
Some embodiments provide a mapping application that provides a variety of UI elements for allowing a user to specify a location (e.g., for viewing or serving as route destinations). In some embodiments, these location-input UI elements appear in succession on a sequence of pages, according to a hierarchy that has the UI elements that require less user interaction appear on earlier pages in the sequence than the UI elements that require more user interaction. In some embodiments, the location-input UI elements that successively appear in the mapping application include (1) selectable predicted-destination notifications, (2) a list of selectable predicted destinations, (3) a selectable voice-based search affordance, and (4) a keyboard. In some of these embodiments, these UI elements appear successively on the following sequence of pages: (1) a default page for presenting the predicted-destination notifications, (2) a destination page for presenting the list of predicted destinations, (3) a search page for receiving voice-based search requests, and (4) a keyboard page for receiving character input.