Route-Based Smart Search and Itinerary Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current user map search technologies are limited in providing comprehensive and dynamic route-based searches for activities and places along a route, particularly for road trips, as they lack complete route coverage, are geographically restricted, and rely heavily on curation, failing to offer seamless integration with intelligent personal assistants for real-time guidance and itinerary management.
Innovation Solution
A system architecture that enables smart searches along a route based on time, includes user experience features like rich entity presentation, saving, sharing, and editing capabilities, smart ranking, and filtering, and interaction with intelligent digital personal assistants, allowing users to build, modify, and share itineraries dynamically, with features like voice guidance and entity suggestions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If specialized road trip applications are used, then road trip scenario requirements are addressed, but route coverage is limited and geographically restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates road trip itinerary planning capabilities into a universal mapping application that serves multiple functions including general navigation, point-of-interest search, and detailed route-based activity planning. This allows the system to provide comprehensive route coverage across geographical areas while maintaining the specialized road trip features through a unified platform.
2Ease of operation
If curation-based approaches are used, then road trip building is simplified, but real-time guidance and dynamic updates are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-calculating routes and identifying points of interest along the path before the user begins their journey. This allows the itinerary to be prepared in advance with curated suggestions, while the system remains capable of providing real-time guidance and dynamic updates during actual travel through continuous route monitoring and navigation integration.
3Productivity
If manual route finding is used, then basic directions are obtained, but dynamic itinerary management and entity discovery are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor user interactions with the itinerary, allow real-time modifications to the route, and dynamically update point-of-interest suggestions based on current location and travel progress. This enables fast initial route planning through automated direction generation while maintaining high adaptability for dynamic itinerary management during the journey.
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AI summary
Architecture that comprises features that enable smart searches along a route based on time to entities along the route and off the route, a user experience (UX) that showcases rich entities along the route, saving, sharing and editing capabilities across devices and users, smart ranking and filtering of entities, and user preferences and digital personal assistant interaction. After an itinerary is built, the itinerary can be saved for future use and/or shared with friends and/or other devices. Users can change the itinerary on-the-go by searching and adding entities, at a later time, for example. A digital personal audio assistant can be utilized to provide guidance based on the itinerary, and ask users if they want to take a particular exit to visit some desired location (e.g., place of interest).