US 11,867,525 B2
Sharing a navigation session to minimize driver distraction
Matthew Sharifi, Mountain View, CA (US); and Victor Carbune, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/273,676
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/065197
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/132139, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412768 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06N 20/20 (2019.01)
CPC G01C 21/3688 (2013.01) [G01C 21/367 (2013.01); G01C 21/3661 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in a first computing device for providing a passenger access to a shared navigation session initiated by a second computing device, the method comprising:
requesting, by one or more processors of a first computing device, access to a shared navigation session synchronized with a navigation session at a second computing device, the navigation session indicative of a navigation route and including route data;
in response to receiving access to the shared navigation session, receiving, by the one or more processors, synchronized route data indicative of the navigation route at the second computing device;
obtaining, by the one or more processors, one or more first navigation instructions corresponding to the synchronized route data including at least one navigation instruction that augments one or more second navigation instructions output at the second computing device; and
outputting, by the one or more processors, the one or more first navigation instructions.