Map application with transit navigation mode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016358471-A1
Application number	US-201514869706-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 29, 2015
Priority date	Jun 7, 2015
Publication date	Dec 8, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a map application that displays a selectable user interface (UI) item for a transit station, a representation of which, is displayed over a presentation of a portion of a map of an area. Upon selection of the UI item, the map application of some embodiments provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a first set of information about the transit station, and a second set of information about departure schedules of several different transit lines from the transit station.

First claim

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:
displaying a selectable user interface (UI) item for a transit station a representation of which is displayed over a presentation of a portion of a map of an area; and providing, upon selection of the UI item, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:
a first set of information about the transit station; and
a second set of information about departure schedules of a plurality of transit lines from the transit station.

2 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the selectable UI item comprises a set of instructions for displaying a banner over the representation of the transit station, the banner comprising the selectable UI item as well as other information about the transit station.

3 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the first set of information comprises at least one of a distance from a current location of the device to the transit station, an address of the transit station, and a set of selectable affordances for providing directions to and from the transit station.

4 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the transit station comprises a transit hub and the plurality of transit lines comprises different transit lines for different types of transit vehicles.

5 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 4 , wherein the different types of transit vehicles comprises at least one of a subway, a light rail train, a bus, and a ferry.

6 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of transit lines are categorized into high frequency transit lines and low frequency transit lines, wherein time intervals between each pair of departures of transit vehicles of the high frequency transit lines from the transit station is less than a threshold time, while the time intervals between each pair of departures of transit vehicles of the low frequency transit lines from the transit station is more than the threshold time.

7 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 6 , wherein a transit line of a first transit system is categorized as a high frequency transit line while a transit line of a second different transit system is categorized as a low frequency transit line.

8 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 6 , wherein a first transit line of a transit system is categorized as a high frequency transit line while a second transit line of the same transit system is categorized as a low frequency transit line.

9 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 6 , wherein the set of instructions for providing the second set of information comprises a set of instructions for displaying the second set of information for the departure schedules of the high frequency transit lines different from the low frequency transit lines.

10 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the second set of information comprises sets of instructions for:
for each high frequency transit line, displaying a frequency of departures of the transit vehicles of the line from the transit station; and for each low frequency transit line, displaying one or more departure times of next one ore more transit vehicles of the line from the transit station.

11 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the frequency of departures further comprises a set of instructions for displaying a remaining time to a next scheduled departure for the high frequency transit line.

12 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the application further comprises sets of instructions for:
receiving a selection of the remaining time to the next scheduled departure for the high frequency transit line; and displaying a set of additional next scheduled departures of transit vehicles of the transit line from the transit station.

13 . 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:
displaying a selectable user interface (UI) item for a transit station a representation of which is displayed over a presentation of a portion of a map of an area; and
providing, upon selection of the UI item, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:
a first set of information about the transit station; and
a second set of information about departure schedules of a plurality of transit lines from the transit station.

14 . The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the GUI further comprises a third set of information about one or more incidents associated with one or more transit lines departing from the transit station.

15 . The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the set of instructions for providing the second set of information comprises sets of instructions for:
determining in which geographical area the transit station is located; and for each transit line:
identifying a local directional term that is used in the geographical area for a departure direction of the transit line; and
displaying the local directional term as a trip heading of the transit line.

16 . The electronic device of claim of claim 15 , wherein at least one local directional term comprises a directional term that is different than traditional cardinal directions.

17 . The electronic device of claim of claim 15 , wherein the transit station is a first transit station and the geographical area is a first geographical area, wherein for a particular transit line, the set of instructions for identifying the local directional term comprises sets of instructions for:
identifying a first local directional term for a particular departure direction of the particular transit line from the first transit station; and identifying a second different directional term for the same particular departure direction of the particular transit line from a second transit station that is located in a second different geographical area.

18 . The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions for displaying the local directional term as the trip heading of the transit line comprises a set of instructions for displaying a cardinal direction as the trip heading of the transit line when no local directional term is identified to be used for the departure direction of the transit line in the geographical area.

19 . The electronic device of claim 13 further comprising a touch-sensitive display screen on which the GUI is displayed, wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for receiving a touch input for scrolling through the first and second sets of information of the GUI.

20 - 22 . (canceled)

23 . The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the first set of information comprises at least one of a website address for the searched location, a physical address of the searched location, photos of the searched location, and a rating of the searched location, wherein the second set of information comprises (i) public transit stations that are available within the threshold vicinity of the searched location and (i

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Hajj Usama M
• Leighton Ian
• Hodge David
• Sabol Cameron
• Van Os Marcel

Classifications

• G08G1/0125

  Traffic data processing · CPC title

• G01C21/3484

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

• G06F3/0485

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title

• G08G1/123 Primary

  indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; {Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, trams}(transmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968) · CPC title

• G01C21/20

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