Frequency based transit trip characterizations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10197409-B2
Application number	US-201514869684-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2015
Priority date	Jun 7, 2015
Publication date	Feb 5, 2019
Grant date	Feb 5, 2019

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a map application that identifies a transit route between a starting location and a destination. The transit route, in some embodiments, includes a set of transit legs that each is serviced by transit vehicles of a transit line. The map application of some embodiments, after identifying the transit route, categorizes each transit line of the transit route as one of a high frequency transit line and a low frequency transit line. The map application displays the departure schedules of high frequency transit lines in a first manner, while the map application displays the departure schedules of low frequency transit lines in a second different manner.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a map application executable by at least one processing unit of a device, the application comprising sets of instructions for:
identifying a transit route between a starting location and a destination, the transit route comprising a set of transit legs each of which serviced by transit vehicles, each transit vehicle being associated with one of a plurality of transit lines;
categorizing each transit line as one of a high frequency transit line and a low frequency transit line by determining whether transit vehicles of each transit line depart at least once during a predetermined period of time; and
based on the categorization, displaying departure schedules of high frequency transit lines in a frequency of departure format while displaying departure schedules of low frequency transit lines in an absolute time format.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the set of instructions for categorizing a transit line comprises a set of instructions for categorizing the transit line based on a number of departures of transit vehicles of the transit line from a first transit station of a transit leg that is serviced by the transit line.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the first transit station of the transit leg comprises a transit station from which the transit leg starts.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the set of instructions for categorizing the transit line further comprises a set of instructions for categorizing the transit line as a high frequency transit line when the transit vehicles of the transit line depart from the first transit station on average more than once during a predetermined period of time.

5. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 4 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the departure schedule of the high frequency transit line comprises a set of instructions for displaying a time interval between each pair of departures of the transit vehicles of the transit line from the first station.

6. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 5 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the time interval comprises a set of instructions for displaying one of an exact time, an approximate time, and a time range.

7. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the set of instructions for categorizing the transit line further comprises a set of instructions for categorizing the transit line as a low frequency transit line when the transit vehicles of the transit line do not depart from the first transit station on average more than once during a predetermined period of time.

8. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying a departure schedule of the low frequency transit line comprises a set of instructions for displaying a particular time for starting a transit trip using the transit route.

9. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for tracking a current location of the device, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the particular time comprises a set of instructions for displaying the particular time for starting the transit trip differently based on the current location of the device.

10. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the particular time for starting the transit trip comprises a set of instructions for displaying the particular time as a departure time of a next transit vehicle of the transit line when the current location of the device is at or inside a threshold vicinity of the first transit station.

11. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the particular time for starting the transit trip comprises a set of instructions for displaying the particular time as a time to leave the current location of the device when the current location of the device is outside the threshold vicinity of the first transit station.

12. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the time to leave the current location is calculated based on a walking distance between the current location of the device and the first transit station.

13. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the set of instructions for categorizing each transit line comprises sets of instructions for:
sending the identified transit route to a set of servers; and
receiving from the server set the identified transit route with each transit line categorized as one of a high frequency transit line and a low frequency transit line.

14. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the displayed departure schedules include a travel time of the transit route.

15. An electronic device comprising:
a set of processing units for executing sets of instructions; and
a non-transitory machine readable medium storing a map application executable by at least one of the processing units of the device, the application comprising sets of instructions for:
identifying a transit route between a starting location and a destination, the transit route comprising a set of transit legs each of which serviced by transit vehicles, each transit vehicle being associated with one of a plurality of transit lines;
categorizing each transit line as one of a high frequency transit line and a low frequency transit line by determining whether transit vehicles of each transit line depart at least once during a predetermined period of time; and
based on the categorization, displaying departure schedules of high frequency transit lines in a frequency of departure format while displaying departure schedules of low frequency transit lines in an absolute time format.

16. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the departure schedules comprises a set of instructions for displaying a departure schedule of a transit line in a navigation banner that comprises navigation instructions for a transit leg that is serviced by the transit line.

17. The electronic device of claim 16 , wherein the navigation banner is one of a plurality of navigation banners that are displayed to a user during a transit navigation presentation for navigating the transit route.

18. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the departure schedules comprises a set of instructions for displaying a departure schedule of a particular transit line from a transit station in the transit station's placecard that comprises departure schedules of a plurality of transit lines that depart from the transit station.

19. The electronic device of claim 18 , wherein the particular transit line comprises a high frequency transit line, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the departure schedule of the particular transit line comprises a set of instructions for displaying the departure schedule as a frequency of departures of transit vehicles of the particular transit line from the transit stations in the placecard.

20. The electronic device of claim 19 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the departure schedule of the particular transit line further comprises a set of instructions for displaying a countdown to an upcoming departure time of the particular transit line in addition to displaying th

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Pirwani Imran A
• Roberts Stanley E
• Hodge David
• Sabol Cameron
• Hajj Usama M
• Leighton Ian
• Tesov Alexander
• Fischer Kaspar
• Galloway Curtis

Classifications

• G01C21/3423 Primary

  Multimodal routing · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G01C21/3667

  Display of a road map (G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635) · CPC title

• G01C21/3484

  Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles · CPC title

• G01C21/20

  Instruments for performing navigational calculations (G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence) · CPC title