TeleNav Patent Grants

Navigation system with single pass clustering based template generation mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: September 24, 2013
Patent Number: 8543520
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: extracting navigation-related web documents having a point of interest; generating formatting sequences of the navigation-related web documents; selecting a user-defined percentile representing reciprocal fraction of an expected number of clusters; calculating a threshold value for a first cluster with the threshold value to be equal to the user-defined percentile of a first normalized distribution of sample comparison values between…

Navigation system with orientation mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: September 24, 2013
Patent Number: 8543326
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: calculating a travel route from an origin location to a destination location; and identifying an orientation location along the travel route for assisting in an initial orientation from the origin location for displaying on a device.

Navigation system with physical activity safety mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: September 24, 2013
Patent Number: 8542112
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: monitoring a participant's movement, the participant's movement is movement to a sequence of locations; identifying a movement area based on the participant's movement in a physical activity; generating a safety zone encompassing the movement area; monitoring an intrusion into the safety zone; and generating a notification of a dangerous situation based on the intrusion for displaying on a device.

Navigation system with constrained resource route planning mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: September 17, 2013
Patent Number: 8538677
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving an entry for a destination; and generating a travel route to the destination through a sufficient number of one or more replenishment locations required for reaching the destination for displaying on a device.

Navigation system with video and method of operation thereof

Granted: July 16, 2013
Patent Number: 8489319
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: detecting a surrounding view for detecting an object at a traffic lane to the left or the right of a device as well as in the front or at the rear of the device; presenting the surrounding view for displaying on the device; and generating an alert with a detection of the object at or exceeding a threshold.

Navigation system with location adaptation and method of operation thereof

Granted: July 9, 2013
Patent Number: 8483959
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving a request for a destination; establishing a predetermined time period based on the destination; calculating a user generated address associated with the destination and filtered with the predetermined time period; generating a comparison between a destination address of the destination and the user generated address; and generating a travel route to the user generated address for the destination with the comparison as the…

Navigation system with lane-level mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: June 18, 2013
Patent Number: 8467956
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: detecting an acceleration for monitoring a movement of a device; determining a travel state based on the acceleration; identifying a travel sequence involving the travel state; setting a lane-level granularity movement as a predetermined sequence of the travel state; and determining the lane-level granularity movement with the travel sequence matching the predetermined sequence for displaying on the device.

Navigation system with alternative route determination mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: June 18, 2013
Patent Number: 8467951
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a potential route from a current location to a destination; assigning a steady state change indicator to a route characteristic of the potential route for maintaining a steady state of a vehicle; calculating a total steady state change for the potential route based on the steady state change indicator; and determining a selected route based on the potential route with the total steady state change that is the lowest for…

Navigation system with calendar mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: June 4, 2013
Patent Number: 8457883
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: sending a meeting proposal to a participant calendar with the meeting proposal having a meeting location and a meeting start time; determining a prior location from the participant calendar; calculating a participant travel time for traversing between the prior location and the meeting location; and scheduling the meeting proposal on the participant calendar based on the participant travel time not exceeding the meeting start time…

Navigation system with vehicle retrieval reservation mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: April 23, 2013
Patent Number: 8428877
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving a retrieval reservation having an exit time; generating an alert with the exit time for retrieving a vehicle from a parked location; and identifying a pick-up location based on the alert for parking the vehicle at the pick-up location.

Location based system with contextual locator and method of operation thereof

Granted: April 2, 2013
Patent Number: 8412166
A method of operation of a location based system includes: detecting an event; establishing a geofence associated with the event; setting a search time window associated with the event; identifying an event participant that is associated with the event; and identifying a matching target as the event participant located within the geofence during the search time window for displaying on a device.

Mobile battery management system

Granted: April 2, 2013
Patent Number: 8412145
A mobile battery management system comprising receiving a battery management parameter by a client from a server over a communication path, detecting a battery control mode with the battery management parameter in the client, and operating the client based on the battery control mode and the battery management parameter.

Navigation system with route planning and method of operation thereof

Granted: February 26, 2013
Patent Number: 8386169
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: detecting a light intensity; and selecting a route determined by the light intensity for displaying on a device.

Navigation system having filtering mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: February 5, 2013
Patent Number: 8370063
A method of operation of a navigation system includes sampling a first location reading from a device; sampling a first time stamp associated with the first location reading; sampling a second location reading from the device; sampling a second time stamp associated with the second location reading; obtaining a velocity for the device between the first location reading and the second location reading; and validating the second location reading with the first location reading, the first…

Navigation system with speed monitoring mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: January 29, 2013
Patent Number: 8364392
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: calculating a safe speed for a travel path; calculating a user's speed along the travel path; and calculating a difference value between the user's speed and the safe speed for displaying on a device.

Navigation system with route planning and method of operation thereof

Granted: November 6, 2012
Patent Number: 8306737
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: providing travel modes of a current travel community; checking current power levels of the travel modes; and generating a navigation instruction based on the current power levels for displaying on a device.

Navigation system with parking space locator mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: November 6, 2012
Patent Number: 8306734
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: selecting a user's destination; determining an actual parking condition of an unmetered street parking space; and determining a travel path based on the actual parking condition from a user's current position to the unmetered street parking space for displaying on a device.

Navigation system with user generated content mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: November 6, 2012
Patent Number: 8306729
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving a change request with a proposed change for an item; verifying a validity of the change request based on a confidence level meeting or exceeding a change threshold; and updating a target element of the item based on the validity of the proposed change for avoiding an incorrect update to the target element for displaying on a device.

Intelligent real-time distributed traffic sampling and navigation system

Granted: November 6, 2012
Patent Number: 8306556
A method of operation of an intelligent real-time distributed traffic sampling and navigation system includes: receiving navigation information of a client; analyzing the navigation information to provide traffic information; generating a travel route based on the analyzing the navigation information; and sending the travel route for display on the client.

Navigation system having preference region adjustment mechanism and method of operation thereof

Granted: November 6, 2012
Patent Number: 8303410
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving a game search preference; locating a compliant opponent location conformant to the game search preference; identifying a first preference region encompassing the compliant opponent location; locating a noncompliant opponent location violating the game search preference; and adjusting the first preference region to exclude the noncompliant opponent location for displaying on a device.