Abstract:
Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing navigation guidance to vehicles are disclosed. The method may include receiving crowdsourcing data from a plurality of vehicles, determining information corresponding to a route of interest to at least one vehicle using the crowdsourcing data, and providing navigation guidance to the at least one vehicle using the information determined. The crowdsourcing data includes on board diagnostics data (OBD) correlated with time stamps and GPS locations of a vehicle, where the on board diagnostics data includes odometer information, speedometer information, fuel consumption information, steering information, and impact data.
Abstract:
Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing navigation guidance to vehicles are disclosed. In some implementations, a navigation device can be configured to determine a dynamic speed limit for a vehicle based on the location of the vehicle in a road segment, and displays the dynamic speed limit in a display of the navigation device.
Abstract:
Method, apparatus, and system for communicating location of a mobile device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of communicating location of a mobile device includes determining information, at the mobile device, from a radio frequency tag associated with an object, generating a location request in accordance with the determined information, comprising processing the information from the radio frequency tag to determine encoded data and generating a SET initiated location request in accordance with the encoded data, and communicating location information in response to the location request generated.
Abstract:
A method for the crowdsourced detection of defective street lights includes receiving reporting data from a plurality of vehicles, where each reporting data includes: (i) at least one light intensity value measured by at least one sensor of a respective vehicle, (ii) a time that the light intensity value was measured by the respective vehicle, and (iii) a location of the respective vehicle at the time that the light intensity value was measured. The method also includes obtaining a baseline light intensity value for at least one street light at the location and combining the reporting data received from the plurality of vehicles to generate combined light intensity data for the location. An indication of a degradation of performance of the at least one street light is then generated in response to a comparison of the combined light intensity data to the baseline light intensity value.
Abstract:
The disclosure generally relates to techniques that may reduce power consumption and improve user experience when using a personal navigation device or other mobile device to navigate along familiar routes or road segments. In particular, in response to a current position associated with the device corresponding to a familiar road segment (e.g., based on an index indicating how often the road segment was previously traversed), voice assistance and a display may be disabled and/or a frequency at which a receiver acquires signals to determine the current position may be reduced. Furthermore, a navigation application executing on the device may be automatically exited if the familiar road segment further includes a route destination. In other use cases, road segment familiarity and travel histories may be used in route planning, managing incoming calls or messages, and media playback, among other things.
Abstract:
Various embodiments include methods implemented on a mobile communication device for using a contact-based predictive response database on a communication device. The methods include determining communication context information from a communication exchange between a user using the communication device and a contact, selecting a predictive response database associated with the contact, determining a suggested communication element from the predictive response database based on a prior communication element identified from the communication exchange and the communication context information, and providing the suggested communication element to the user.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for prioritizing a plurality of applications associated with a mobile device involve determining at least one attribute associated with each of the plurality of applications, and determining at least one of a current position, current travel speed, or current time in response to a triggering event. Also, expected network performance data is determined based on at least one of the current position, current travel speed, and current time associated with a user device or with other mobile devices. Prioritized applications are selected from the plurality of applications based on the expected network performance and at least one attribute associated with each of the applications.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for automated information entry in a wireless device may include receiving an input of a sequence of characters. In addition, the methods and apparatus may include identifying a location-related context based on at least a portion of the sequence of characters and obtaining location information of the wireless device in response to identifying the location-related context. The methods and apparatus may also include obtaining a set of one or more landmark information corresponding to the location information of the wireless device and obtaining directional information relative to selected landmark information. The method and apparatus may also include adding the directional information with the selected landmark information to the sequence of characters.
Abstract:
Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing navigation guidance to vehicles are disclosed. The method may include receiving crowdsourcing data from a plurality of vehicles, determining traffic data corresponding to a road using the crowdsourcing data, predicting traffic condition of each lane of the road using the traffic data, and providing navigation guidance to a vehicle in accordance with the traffic condition of each lane of the road. The crowdsourcing data includes on board diagnostics data (OBD) correlated with time stamps and GPS locations of a vehicle, where the on board diagnostics data includes odometer information, speedometer information, fuel consumption information, steering information, and impact data.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method for a computing device to display an icon based upon user input. The computing device may receive user input and generate an icon based upon a checksum function of the user input. The computing device may display the icon to a user on a display device.