Patents by Inventor David W. Nesbitt
David W. Nesbitt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10718623Abstract: A preferred route may be determined from an origin location to a destination location. The determination is made by processing directed links (e.g., one-way edges) in a graph that includes one or more links and two or more nodes. The determination of a preferred route may include an estimate of the time required at one or more intersections along alternative. Individual routing preferences, such as a preference of a rural over an urban route, also may be considered. Techniques are described that may help reduce the time required to identify a preferred route, including the identification and removal of no outlet routes before processing the directed links and techniques using particular data formats.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 10697785Abstract: A preferred route may be determined from an origin location to a destination location. The determination is made by processing directed links (e.g., one-way edges) in a graph that includes one or more links and two or more nodes. The determination of a preferred route may include an estimate of the time required at one or more intersections along alternative. Individual routing preferences, such as a preference of a rural over an urban route, also may be considered. Techniques are described that may help reduce the time required to identify a preferred route, including the identification and removal of no outlet routes before processing the directed links and techniques using particular data formats.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 10551203Abstract: A preferred route may be determined from an origin location to a destination location. The determination is made by processing directed links (e.g., one-way edges) in a graph that includes one or more links and two or more nodes. The determination of a preferred route may include an estimate of the time required at one or more intersections along alternative. Individual routing preferences, such as a preference of a rural over an urban route, also may be considered. Techniques are described that may help reduce the time required to identify a preferred route, including the identification and removal of no outlet routes before processing the directed links and techniques using particular data formats.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Publication number: 20190293448Abstract: Techniques are provided for presenting a route in a manner that emphasizes the route and provides context information. For example, a vivid color or vivid colors may be used to display the route, and pastel colors or other desaturated colors may be used for non-route context information. This may result in a map in which the vivid colors of the route stand out over the faded style of the non-route context information to emphasize the route. In this manner, the map may both emphasize the route and provide context information for the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 10161757Abstract: A user may indicate a preference of a route when alternative routes are available between an origin and a destination. The mapping system may enable a user to identify a region, a point or a set of points to help control, guide or otherwise influence the determination of a route favored by the user. While the identified region, point or set of points may be included in the route, the identified region, point or set of points need not necessarily be included in the route.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 10113880Abstract: Techniques are provided for presenting a route in a manner that emphasizes the route and provides context information. For example, a vivid color or vivid colors may be used to display the route, and pastel colors or other desaturated colors may be used for non-route context information. This may result in a map in which the vivid colors of the route stand out over the faded style of the non-route context information to emphasize the route. In this manner, the map may both emphasize the route and provide context information for the route.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 10094678Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for inferring a user's intent to stop at a predefined location or breakpoint along a predetermined route, such as an exit along a highway, and to enable users to report back to systems maintaining exit or breakpoint POI data. An application executing on a user's mobile device may infer or query the user's intent upon detecting a deviation away from the route and to use this as a “check-in” at a predefined location corresponding to the point of deviation. Then further check-ins and ratings at amenities/locations associated with the exit can also be used to enhance the rating and popularity of the predefined location (e.g., highway exit) itself. The ratings and popularity of highway exits can then be exposed in applications to provide relevant content related to the highest rated or most popular breakpoints located along their route of travel.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Mapquest, Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 10066960Abstract: Computer implemented methods are disclosed. The methods may include identifying a plurality of points of interest (POIs) within a pre-determined travel time from an intersection or highway exit and calculating a travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of POIs. The methods may further include, associating each of the plurality of POIs with the intersection or highway exit, and storing the travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of associated POIs in an electronic database as pre-calculated POI data.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Mapquest, Inc.Inventors: G. Duane Gearhart, Gregory Knisely, David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9958282Abstract: A computer-implemented method for identifying a route that is configured to travel through multiple points of interest includes receiving a query that includes an origin location, a destination location, and at least a first point of interest and a second point of interest. The method also includes identifying a perimeter that surrounds the received origin and destination locations in response to the query. The perimeter is then used to identify a set of locations for each of the first and second points of interest.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: David W. Nesbitt, W. Karl Renner
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Patent number: 9746337Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing improved generation of textual directions based on positional information. In an implementation, textual directions for traversing a path are generated based on positional information associated with the path. According to a method, positional information that specifies a longitude and latitude at a plurality of times is received and processed to generate a routing graph. The generated routing graph includes nodes and route links that connect the plurality of nodes. Textual directions are generated for traversing a path associated with the positional data, based in part on link information associated with the links of the generated routing graph.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Mapquest, Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9599487Abstract: Techniques are provided for presenting a route using a route presentation that provides both a context map and one or more detail route maps. Narrative instructions for the route also may be presented. The presentation of the context map and the one or more detail route maps may be interactive. The route presentation also may be user controllable such that a user may control the portions of a route that are printed. The route presentation also may include a re-routing feature that allows a user to request that a new route be identified that avoids a particular maneuver or maneuvers in a route.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: MapQuest, Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Publication number: 20170030727Abstract: A user may indicate a preference of a route when alternative routes are available between an origin and a destination. The mapping system may enable a user to identify a region, a point or a set of points to help control, guide or otherwise influence the determination of a route favored by the user. While the identified region, point or set of points may be included in the route, the identified region, point or set of points need not necessarily be included in the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9557182Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining shortest route(s) or path(s) to one or more destination nodes from one or more origin nodes. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes identifying a plurality of origin nodes associated with a route based on a threshold distance from at least one destination node, the origin nodes being options for a departure from the route to the at least one destination node. Further, the method may include calculating, using a processor, a cost associated with travelling from each of the origin nodes to at least one common intermediate node between the route and the at least one destination node, and determining a path to the at least one destination node based on the origin node having the lowest calculated cost.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: MapQuest, Inc.Inventors: David W. Nesbitt, Leonard B. Jansen
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Publication number: 20160349068Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for inferring a user's intent to stop at a predefined location or breakpoint along a predetermined route, such as an exit along a highway, and to enable users to report back to systems maintaining exit or breakpoint POI data. An application executing on a user's mobile device may infer or query the user's intent upon detecting a deviation away from the route and to use this as a “check-in” at a predefined location corresponding to the point of deviation. Then further check-ins and ratings at amenities/locations associated with the exit can also be used to enhance the rating and popularity of the predefined location (e.g., highway exit) itself. The ratings and popularity of highway exits can then be exposed in applications to provide relevant content related to the highest rated or most popular breakpoints located along their route of travel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventor: David W. NESBITT
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Publication number: 20160273936Abstract: Computer implemented methods are disclosed. The methods may include identifying a plurality of points of interest (POIs) within a pre-determined travel time from an intersection or highway exit and calculating a travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of POIs. The methods may further include, associating each of the plurality of POIs with the intersection or highway exit, and storing the travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of associated POIs in an electronic database as pre-calculated POI data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: G. Duane GEARHART, Gregory Knisely, David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9435660Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for inferring a user's intent to stop at a predefined location or breakpoint along a predetermined route, such as an exit along a highway, and to enable users to report back to systems maintaining exit or breakpoint Point of Interest (POI) data. An application executing on a user's mobile device may infer or query the user's intent upon detecting a deviation away from the route and to use this as a “check-in” at a predefined location corresponding to the point of deviation. Then further check-ins and ratings at amenities/locations associated with the exit can also be used to enhance the rating and popularity of the predefined location (e.g., highway exit) itself. The ratings and popularity of highway exits provide relevant content related to the highest rated or most popular breakpoints located along their route of travel.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: MapQuest, Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9423262Abstract: A user may indicate a preference of a route when alternative routes are available between an origin and a destination. The mapping system may enable a user to identify a region, a point or a set of points to help control, guide or otherwise influence the determination of a route favored by the user. While the identified region, point or set of points may be included in the route, the identified region, point or set of points need not necessarily be included in the route.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: MapQuest, Inc.Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9377323Abstract: Computer implemented methods are disclosed. The methods may include identifying a plurality of points of interest (POIs) within a pre-determined travel time from an intersection or highway exit and calculating a travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of POIs. The methods may further include, associating each of the plurality of POIs with the intersection or highway exit, and storing the travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of associated POIs in an electronic database as pre-calculated POI data.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: MAPQUEST, INC.Inventors: G. Duane Gearhart, Greg Knisely, David W. Nesbitt
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Publication number: 20160076900Abstract: A computer-implemented method for identifying a route that is configured to travel through multiple points of interest includes receiving a query that includes an origin location, a destination location, and at least a first point of interest and a second point of interest. The method also includes identifying a perimeter that surrounds the received origin and destination locations in response to the query. The perimeter is then used to identify a set of locations for each of the first and second points of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: David W. Nesbitt, W. Karl Renner
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Publication number: 20150204688Abstract: Computer implemented methods are disclosed. The methods may include identifying a plurality of points of interest (POIs) within a pre-determined travel time from an intersection or highway exit and calculating a travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of POIs. The methods may further include, associating each of the plurality of POIs with the intersection or highway exit, and storing the travel time and distance from the intersection or highway exit to each of the plurality of associated POIs in an electronic database as pre-calculated POI data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: MapQuest, Inc.Inventors: G. Duane GEARHART, Greg KNISELY, David W. NESBITT