US 12,480,778 B2
Presenting transit alight notifications
Brian J Andrich, San Francisco, CA (US); Sara E Marcus, Brooklyn, NY (US); Thomas Pajor, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Nick Provenzano, San Francisco, CA (US); Tim A Aerts, San Jose, CA (US); Alex Benevento, Sunbury (AU); Leo Emile Jean Pierre Vallet, Culver City, CA (US); Samantha J Bennett, San Francisco, CA (US); Sara A Bergquist, Sacramento, CA (US); Nathan L Fillhardt, Scotts Valley, CA (US); Yun Jae Kim, San Francisco, CA (US); Scott G Jackson, San Francisco, CA (US); Jan F Sanchez Dudus, Campbell, CA (US); Ishan Bhutani, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ray R Chen, San Jose, CA (US); and Christopher Y Tremblay, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/828,902.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/202,314, filed on Jun. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0390242 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); H04M 1/72457 (2021.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3655 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3407 (2013.01); G01C 21/3423 (2013.01); G01C 21/3644 (2013.01); G01C 21/3661 (2013.01); H04M 1/72457 (2021.01); G01C 21/3885 (2020.08)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by a navigation application executing on a computing device, a transit route from a start location to a destination location, the transit route including a plurality of transit stops along the transit route;
determining, by the navigation application, a first transit stop included in the transit route corresponding to a first exit from a first transit vehicle;
determining, by the navigation application, that the first transit stop is in a low signal environment corresponding to a geofence;
presenting, by the navigation application, a navigation presentation of the transit route from the start location to the destination location; and
while presenting the navigation presentation, and responsive to determining (a) that the first transit stop is in the low signal environment corresponding to the geofence, and (b) that the computing device has entered the geofence and/or is within a threshold distance from the first transit stop: presenting, by the navigation application, a first notification warning that the first transit stop is in the low signal environment and that the computing device may not present any notification on the display of the computing device indicating that the user should exit the first transit vehicle at the first transit stop.