Patents by Inventor Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger
Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger 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: 11209278Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a route taken by a user at a decision point in a navigable network in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable segments of the navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A user is travelling along a main route from an origin to a destination. An upcoming decision point is identified, and one or more alternative routes between the decision point and the destination generated. Data indicative of each route is stored in a route pool, associated with data indicative of the outgoing segment at the decision point that forms part of the route. Each route passes along a different outgoing segment, and which segments are all different to an outgoing segment included in a continuation of the main route. When the user has passed through the decision point, it is determined whether the current position of the user lies on the outgoing segment forming the continuation of the main route.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TOMTOM INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Felix Godafoss König, Michael Marte, Jose F. Santiago Nunez, Kees Wesselius, Stanislav Zheltov, Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger, William Breen
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Patent number: 10371536Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating routes in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable segments of a navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A main route from an origin to a destination is generated through the network in a manner which favors segments which are segments of a predefined sub-network. When the user commences travel, the method involves identifying a first decision point along the main route being travelled that is a decision point of the sub-network. An alternative route is generated between the decision point and the destination, in a method involving favoring segments of the sub-network, and in which the outgoing segment of the main route being travelled to the first decision point is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: TOMTOM NAVIGATION B.V.Inventors: Felix Godafoss König, Michael Marte, Jose F. Santiago Nunez, Kees Wesselius, Stanislav Zheltov, Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger, William Breen
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Patent number: 10295353Abstract: A method of performing routing in relation to a multi-modal transportation network involves representing a multi-modal transportation network using a plurality of segments, each being indicative of a navigable segment of the network, and each segment having data representative of a traversal time for the segment associated therewith. The plurality of segments of the multi-modal transportation network includes a first subset of segments indicative of a public transport network, and a second subset of segments indicative of a road network which may be joined, left and traveled through by a user substantially freely at any time. The traversal time data associated with segments of the public transport network associated with interchange points with the road network is based on a transit time indicative of a time taken to travel along the segment, and an additional waiting time.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: TOMTOM NAVIGATION B.V.Inventors: Felix Godafoss König, Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger, Leon van Helvoort, Heiko Schilling
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Publication number: 20170314945Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating routes in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable segments of a navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A main route from an origin to a destination is generated through the network in a manner which favours segments which are segments of a predefined sub-network. When the user commences travel, the method involves identifying a first decision point along the main route being travelled that is a decision point of the sub-network. An alternative route is generated between the decision point and the destination, in a method involving favouring segments of the sub-network, and in which the outgoing segment of the main route being travelled to the first decision point is blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: TomTom Navigation B.V.Inventors: Felix Godafoss König, Michael Marte, Jose F. Santiago Nunez, Kees Wesselius, Stanislav Zheltov, Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger, William Breen
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Publication number: 20170314944Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a route taken by a user at a decision point in a navigable network in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable segments of the navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A user is travelling along a main route from an origin to a destination. An upcoming decision point is identified, and one or more alternative routes between the decision point and the destination generated. Data indicative of each route is stored in a route pool, associated with data indicative of the outgoing segment at the decision point that forms part of the route. Each route passes along a different outgoing segment, and which segments are all different to an outgoing segment included in a continuation of the main route. When the user has passed through the decision point, it is determined whether the current position of the user lies on the outgoing segment forming the continuation of the main route.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: TomTom Navigation B.V.Inventors: Felix Godafoss König, Michael Marte, Jose F. Santiago Nunez, Kees Wesselius, Stanislav Zheltov, Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger, William Breen
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Publication number: 20160202079Abstract: A method of performing routing in relation to a multi-modal transportation network involves representing a multi-modal transportation network using a plurality of segments, each being indicative of a navigable segment of the network, and each segment having data representative of a traversal time for the segment associated therewith. The plurality of segments of the multi-modal transportation network includes a first subset of segments indicative of a public transport network, and a second subset of segments indicative of a road network which may be joined, left and travelled through by a user substantially freely at any time. The traversal time data associated with origin segments of the public transport network associated with interchange points with the road network is based on a transit time indicative of a time taken to both train and road networks travel along the segment, and an additional waiting time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Felix Godafoss König, Dr. Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger, Leon van Helvoort, Heiko Schilling