Ray Wang

US Patent:

20140256357, Sep 11, 2014

Filed:

Mar 15, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/842088

Inventors:

Ray Xiaohang Wang - Jersey City NJ, US
Farhan Shamsi - Rego Park NY, US
Yakov Okshtein - Far Rockaway NY, US
David Singleton - London, GB
Douglas Alexander Gresham - Kitchener, CA
Alan Newberger - San Francisco CA, US
Lixin Zhang - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/02

US Classification:

4554563

Abstract:

Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data.

US Patent:

20140257747, Sep 11, 2014

Filed:

Mar 5, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/786434

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Ray Xiaohang Wang - Jersey City NJ, US
Yakov Okshtein - Far Rockaway NY, US
Farhan Shamsi - Rego Park NY, US
David Singleton - London, GB
Lixin Zhang - Mountain View CA, US
Alan Newberger - San Francisco CA, US
Chandrasekhar Thota - Saratoga CA, US
Douglas Alexander Gresham - Kitchener, CA
Nicholas Fey - Mountain View CA, US
Marcus Alexander Folster - West Malling, UK
Petra Cross - San Francisco CA, US
Andres Morales - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G01C 21/00

US Classification:

702150

Abstract:

Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data.