Predictive Navigation System Using User-Specific Geospatial Command Models

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current navigation systems are passive and require elaborate, unintuitive user interactions for providing navigation, lacking the ability to proactively suggest optimized routes or respond to real-time changes in road conditions, such as traffic incidents.

Innovation Solution

A learning and predictive navigation system that uses a user-specific geospatial command model, based on collected behavior and feedback data, to generate navigation queries and determine optimal routes, incorporating real-time traffic and weather information, and user preferences like parking and driving habits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional navigation systems use step-by-step instructions through elaborate user interactions, then navigation functionality is provided, but user interface complexity increases and user experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction simplicityVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The navigation system automatically collects user behavior data, learns user preferences, and generates personalized navigation recommendations without requiring explicit user input for each parameter. The system serves itself by autonomously analyzing user patterns and making intelligent navigation decisions, eliminating the need for complex step-by-step user interactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user interactions and navigation outcomes, using this feedback to refine and update the user-specific geospatial command model. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the system to learn from user behavior and improve its recommendations over time, reducing the need for elaborate user input while maintaining high personalization quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If conventional navigation systems require detailed user input for each navigation parameter, then navigation accuracy is maintained, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenavigation setup speedVSAvoiduser interaction time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary learning and analysis of user navigation patterns during idle periods or background operations, preparing personalized navigation models in advance. When navigation is needed, the pre-processed user profile and learned preferences are immediately available, eliminating the need for time-consuming step-by-step parameter input and enabling rapid navigation setup.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If conventional navigation systems provide static route information, then system simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to real-time changes deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time route adjustment capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The navigation system transitions from static route provision to dynamic, real-time route adjustment by continuously monitoring traffic conditions, user location, and contextual factors. The system dynamically updates navigation recommendations based on current road conditions and user preferences, enabling adaptive response to changing environments while maintaining personalized service quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

4Adaptability or versatility

If conventional navigation systems treat all users uniformly, then system simplicity is maintained, but personalization capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser-specific customizationVSAvoidmodel complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements local quality by creating user-specific geospatial command models that are tailored to individual user preferences, behaviors, and navigation patterns. Each user receives personalized navigation recommendations based on their unique profile, allowing the system to adapt its behavior and recommendations to match specific user needs while maintaining a unified underlying architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11162806B2Learning and predictive navigation system
Publication Date: 2021.11.02 HARMAN INT IND INC
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AI summary

Various embodiments provide techniques for performing an operation that includes receiving a request specifying one or more geospatial commands. The operation further includes generating a navigation query based on the one or more geospatial commands and using a user-specific geospatial command model generated based on collected user behavior and feedback. The operation also includes executing the navigation query against a navigation database to determine route and destination information.