METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING LEAST-COST ROUTES BASED ON HISTORICAL FUEL EFFICIENCY, STREET MAPPING AND LOCATION BASED SERVICES

Patent №

US 7,778,769

Granted

2010-08-17

Filed 2006

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

3

kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11563418

This disclosure outlines a method, which enables a vehicle driver to achieve increased fuel efficiency by implementing least-cost route planning based on terrain data and derived from advanced mapping, logging and location based services. Actual fuel efficiency is recorded and correlated by vehicle conditions, time of day and date, and then referenced to achieve the most accurate least-cost route plan for the intended destination.

AI classification

Planning0.96
Knowledge representation0.94
Evolutionary computation0.66
AI hardware0.27
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 185530853

Assignors

BOSS, GREGORY JENSEN, HAMILTON, RICK ALLEN, II, MARTINE, MICHAEL JACK, MCCONNELL, KEVIN C., MILLER, JOHN WILLIAMS

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