US 12,169,133 B2
Heuristic evaluation systems and methods for spatial information deliverability
Aykut Yararbas, San Jose, CA (US); Jon Seneger, Monte Sereno, CA (US); and Amir Karim Esfahani, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed by Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/964,988.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/272,776, filed on Oct. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0137791 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3469 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G01C 21/3617 (2013.01); G01C 21/3691 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A navigation and charging station recommendation system for an electric vehicle, the system comprising:
memory storing instructions executed by a processor to receive an origination point and a destination point from a user and determine and suggest charging station locations to the user traveling from the origination point to the destination point based on time and distance considerations, charging hardware capability and availability considerations, and user preference attributes received from the user;
the memory storing instructions executed by the processor to determine an ordered list of scored charging station locations by applying a vector space model to required attributes collected from the electric vehicle, charging point attributes collected from charging stations, and preferred attributes collected from the user, wherein an initial ordered list of scored charging station locations based on primary dimensions is refined to form an optimized ordered list of scored charging station locations using secondary dimensions as feedback to the vector space model;
a display operable for displaying the optimized ordered list of scored charging station locations encompassing the suggestions to the user.