Method and system for matching an incident to a route
First Claim
1. A method for depicting incidents along a desired route, wherein the desired route comprises a plurality of segments, the method comprising:
- receiving segment data describing at least one segment of the desired route;
locating at least one region of interest around each segment of the desired route;
receiving incident data describing any available incidents;
for each at least one region of interest, determining if any available incidents fall within the at least one region;
for each available incident falling within at least one region determining if the available incident has occurred on at least one segment; and
for each available incident occurring on at least one segment, depicting the incident on the desired route.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for depicting an online map of a route along with any incidents on the route. To create the online map of a route along with any incidents on the route, a consumer first provides the origination and destination addresses of the route. Once the consumer provides the origination and destination addresses of the route a proposed route is provided for their approval. The consumer may modify the proposed route or accept it as the final route they desire. Next, the route is analyzed to determine if any traffic incidents have occurred upon it based on retrieved incident information compared with the route. This analysis comprises preparing the route by creating regions of interest around the segments composing the route, examining if any traffic incidents fall within one or more of the regions of interest, and then determining for those incidents that do fall within a region of interest if the incident is closer than a threshold value to any segment on the route. If it is, then the incident is on the route, and the final analysis determines on which segment of the route the incident should be place. The final route along with any incidents on the route is then depicted for the consumer via a
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1. A method for depicting incidents along a desired route, wherein the desired route comprises a plurality of segments, the method comprising:
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receiving segment data describing at least one segment of the desired route;
locating at least one region of interest around each segment of the desired route;
receiving incident data describing any available incidents;
for each at least one region of interest, determining if any available incidents fall within the at least one region;
for each available incident falling within at least one region determining if the available incident has occurred on at least one segment; and
for each available incident occurring on at least one segment, depicting the incident on the desired route. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A system for depicting incidents along a desired route, comprising:
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a route depiction device operative to depict the desired route, as well as any incidents along the desired route; and
an information server operative to;
receive segment data describing at least one segment of the desired route from a map server;
locate at least one region of interest around each segment of the desired route;
receive incident data describing any available incidents from an incident server;
for each at least one region, determine if any available incidents fall within the at least one region;
for each available incident falling within at least one region determine if the available incident has occurred along the at least one segment; and
for each available incident occurring on at least one segment, providing the route depiction device with the incident so that the route depiction device may depict the incident along the desired route. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65)
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45. A computer-readable medium having a computer executable component for depicting incidents along a desired route, wherein the computer executable component depicts a desired route by:
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obtaining incident data describing any available incidents within a particular geographic area;
comparing the incident data to the desired route to determine if any available incidents fall within a predetermined region of interest surrounding the desired route; and
depicting the desired route along with any available incidents determined to fall within the region of interest.
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