US 12,345,532 B2
Creating a time bounded and goal driven network for passenger guidance
Nitika Sharma, Zirakpur (IN); Akash U. Dhoot, Pune (IN); Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Visakhapatnam (IN); and Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Visakhapatnam (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/651,458.
Prior Publication US 2023/0258460 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3415 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01); G01C 21/3614 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processor-implemented method, the method comprising:
receiving user information related to a current travel route;
identifying current status information associated with a transportation hub through IoT-collected data;
generating two or more navigation paths, concurrently, for a user from an arrival location to a destination within the transportation hub based on the received user information and the identified current status information, wherein a first navigation path within the two or more navigation paths satisfies a first factor within two or more factors and a second navigation path within the two or more navigation paths satisfies a second factor within the two or more factors, and wherein the two or more factors are selected from a group consisting of walking only, avoid elevators, avoid enclosed spaces, and avoid high traffic areas;
calculating, and updating in real-time, a traversal time of the two or more navigation paths for the user to reach the destination and an arrival time at the destination;
calculating, and updating in real-time, an approximate time to complete a plurality of segments of the two or more navigation paths to be encountered by the user along the two or more navigation paths based on the identified current status information, wherein a segment comprises a formality required for traversal of the transportation hub; and
presenting, and updating in real-time, the two or more navigation paths and the traversal time, the arrival time, guidance to traverse each navigation path to the user, and the approximate time to complete each segment within the plurality of segments, wherein the guidance comprises displaying a visual cue on a graphical user interface of a user device directing the user to traverse a path within the transportation hub corresponding to a navigation path within the two or more navigation paths, and wherein the approximate time to complete each segment is displayed on the graphical user interface juxtaposed to each segment, and wherein the visual cue is an arrow pointing to a specific path with which the user is to take, and wherein the visual cue is dynamically updated when the user moves the user device so that the visual cue remains pointing at the path.