Personalized traveler information dissemination system

• US 20060145892A1
• Filed: 10/17/2005
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Triangle Software LLC (Pelmorex, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gueziec, Andre
• Granted Patent: US 7,161,497 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be pre-selected by the traveler. The system ensures consistent and quality data are produced and issued to the traveler.

Claims

1. A system for aggregating traveler information, comprising:

at least two data sources providing current data relating to traveling conditions;

one or more feeding programs for accessing the current data from the at least two data sources; and

a traveler data processor, the traveler data processor configured to;

detect if the current data provides given information;

determine one or more values for the given information when the current data does not provide the given information;

detect if certain information in the current data is correct or incorrect; and

provide corrected values for the certain information when the certain information is not correct.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two data sources comprises a traffic incident data source.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two data sources comprises a weather data source.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two data sources comprises a traffic flow information source.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two data sources comprises user input.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more feeding programs comprise a data transfer program configured to standardize the current data.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more feeding programs comprises a data feeding and repackaging program configured to access, analyze, and modify the data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more feeding programs are executed on one or more networks to provide simultaneous and redundant access to current data from the at least two data sources.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein a unique identification is allocated to each incident reflected by the curt data so that redundant data may be eliminated by the one or more feeding programs.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the traveler data processor includes at least one sub-processor.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one sub-processor comprises a traffic incident sub-processor.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one sub-processor comprises a traffic congestion and speed processor.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one sub-processor comprises a transit processor.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one sub-processor comprises a weather processor.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the sub-processor comprises a public event processor.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the traveler data processor generates quality traffic data, the quality traffic data comprising current data that is as complete and timely as is presently available.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the system further comprises a traveler data publisher configured to publish the quality traffic data for access by a user.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the system further comprises a traveler data dispatcher configured to deliver the quality traffic data to a user.

19. A method for aggregating traveler information, comprising:

accessing current data relating to travel conditions from at least two data sources;

detecting whether the current data provides given information;

determining at least one value if the current data does not provide the given information;

validating the current data, wherein validating the current data comprises detecting if certain information in the current data is correct; and

correcting the certain information if the certain information in the current data is not correct.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising publishing quality traffic data, the quality traffic data comprising current data that is as complete and timely as is presently available.

21. A machine-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a machine to perform a method for aggregating traveler information, comprising:

accessing current data relating to travel conditions from at least two data sources;

detecting whether the current data provides given information;

determining at least one value if the current data does not provide the given information;

validating the current data, wherein validating the current data comprises detecting if certain information in the current data is correct; and

correcting the certain information, if the certain information in the current data is not correct.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 21, further comprising publishing quality traffic data, the quality traffic data comprising current data that is as complete and timely as is presently available.

23. A system for aggregating traveler information, comprising:

at least two data sources providing current data relating to traveling conditions;

one or more feeding programs for accessing the current data from the at least two data sources; and

a traveler data processor, the traveler data processor configured to detect whether the current data is complete and timely

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the traveler data processor is further configured to eliminate incomplete or untimely data.

25. The system of claim 23, wherein the traveler data processor is further configured to generate as complete and timely data as possible based on the current data.

26. The system of claim 23, wherein the current data comprises real time data.

27. The system of claim 23, wherein the current data comprises substantially real time data.

28. The system of claim 23, wherein the current data comprises predicted data.

29. A system for aggregating traveler information, comprising:

at least two data sources providing current data relating to traveling conditions;

one or more feeding programs for accessing the current data from the at least two data sources; and

a traveler data processor, the traveler data processor configured to;

detect whether the current data provides complete and timely information about a plurality of road segments; and

if the current data does not provide complete and timely information about at least one road segment from the plurality of road segments, generate as complete and timely information for the at least one road segment as possible based on the complete and timely information from at least two other road segments from the plurality of road segments.