Control-Information System For Mass Transportation Vehicles

• US 20080262660A1
• Filed: 12/26/2005
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hillel Weber, Shlomp Weber, Shmuel Weber
• Original Assignee: Hillel Weber, Shlomp Weber, Shmuel Weber
• Inventors: Weber, Hillel, Weber, Shmuel, Weber, Shlomp
• Application Number:
  US12/088,085
• Publication Number:
  US 20080262660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles intended for transmitting to passengers of mass transportation vehicles while on the road, any kind of information corresponding to the defined spot on the route. The control-information system includes: —an information center; —the proxy using a high-frequency band for receiving the new multimedia data or any other “big” files from the information center and for sending this data from the proxy to the data end points; —a management unit, which can control the data end points and the information center; —a plurality of data end points, which are housed in each mass transportation vehicle, including in said system, involves: —a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals, —a narrow-band unit for communication between the data end point and the information center, —a wide-band unit for communication between the data end point and the proxy, —a software unit, which is based on data of location and time, decides when and which data will be shown on the display-monitor.

Claims

1. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles includes:

an information center or server, including;

a database and data management unit,

a narrow-band unit for communication between an information center and data end points;

a wide-band unit for communication between the information center and a proxy;

the proxy using a high-frequency band (wide band) for receiving the new multimedia data or any other “

big”

files from the information center and for sending this data from the proxy to the data end points;

a management unit, which can control the data end points and the information center;

a plurality of data end points, which are housed in each mass transportation vehicle, including in said system, involves;

a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals,

a narrow-band unit for communication between the data end point and the information center,

a wide-band unit for communication between the data end point and the proxy,

a software unit, which is based on data of location and time, decides when and which data will be shown on the display-monitor;

a display-monitor.

2. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein said database and data management unit of the information center holds all data which is being used for the control-information system and handles all data exchange between the proxy and the data end points;

the database and data management unit include information regarding each mass transportation vehicle, each traffic station, every shop and restaurant nearby the stations on the way, details of contracts with clients, and other various kinds of information.

3. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the said narrow-band unit of the information center is a cellular device, connected to a cellular modem;

this cellular device includes a transmitter for transmitting data of news and details of contracts with clients from the information center to the data end points, and a receiver for receiving data regarding GPS signals and requests coming to the information center from the data end point.

4. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the said narrow-band unit of the data end points is a cellular device, connected to a cellular modem;

this cellular device includes a transmitter for transmitting data regarding GPS signals and requests coming to the information center, and a receiver for receiving news and details of contracts with clients from the information center.

5. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the said wide-band unit of the data end points is a wireless canal receiver with a wireless network antenna for receiving movie data from the proxy.

6. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the said software unit of the data end points includes the following subunits:

a database,

a communicational manager, which is responsible for communication with the information center and with the proxy,

a data manager, which is responsible for data storage,

a show-play manager, which controls playing commercials and includes a commercial timer, which is used for defining the commercial unit length (interval).

7. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the said proxy is an intermediate unit—

a middleman between the information center and the data end point;

actually, the proxy behaves as a warehouse storing data from the information center for usage by the data end points;

for receiving the new multimedia data or any other “

big”

files from the information center to the proxy using a high-frequency band (wide band) of a wire line canal, and for sending this data from the proxy to the data end points using a wide-band of a wireless canal.

8. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the said proxy has the following parts:

a data storage unit,

a wide-band receiver for communication between the proxy and the information center, and

a wide-band transmitter for communication between the proxy and the data end points.

9. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 8, wherein the said wide-band receiver is included in a wire canal, connecting the proxy with the information center.

10. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 8, wherein the said connection between the information center and the proxy is any wide band alternative, for example it can be satellite communication.

11. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 8, wherein the said wide-band transmitter of the proxy has an antenna and is included in a wireless canal;

this wireless canal operates only when the vehicle with the data end point will be near the proxy, for example in the central bus station.

12. A control-information system for mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the said management unit can control the data end points and the information center, and has 3 main parts:

a visible part (forms, panels) —

objects visible to the user,

a data transformation part, which prepares data transferred from or to the information center,

data exchange and a setting part, which are communicating with the information center.

13. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 1, includes:

storing information regarding details of contracts with clients (advertisement companies);

receiving information regarding the local position of the mass transportation vehicles;

deciding when the time, data of the local position of the said mass transportation vehicles according to a specific contract, and data of advertisement text, coincides.

show on the display-monitor of the data end point of desired data.

14. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 13, includes:

requesting by the data end points of data from GPS and receiving location information (GPS signals) from several satellites;

requesting by the data end points of data from the information center and receiving textual data (data of news and details of contracts with clients) by a cellular canal;

transmitting textual data from the information center to the data end points directly by the cellular (narrow-band) canal;

transmitting data of multimedia or any other “

big”

files from the information center to the data end points throughout an intermediate unit—

the proxy;

the proxy is receiving the new large scale files from the information center by a wire line canal in a high-frequency band (wide band) and sends this data from the proxy to the data end points in a wide-band of a wireless canal;

show on the display-monitor of the data end point of desired data, when the software unit, based on data of location and time, decides when and which data needs to be shown on the display-monitor;

this decision is made when the location data from the GPS receiver corresponds to conditions of the contract with a concrete client in the database of the software unit.

15. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 14, wherein the reasons why the data end points requests the data is:

only the data end point “

knows”

when and where it needs specific data and then requests this data by a cellular device;

the data end point is available during 24 hours, 7 days a week (100% of the time);

this is the best way to divide the hand-shake issue to the date end points;

the hand-shake process is relatively a long process in computer communication (can last a few seconds).

16. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 13, wherein the workflow in the data end points is as follows:

getting current time and location data from the GPS receiver,

checking the next item to show on the display-monitor according to location, time and requested broadcast frequency,

sending data to the screen of the display-monitor,

returning to getting current time and location data from GPS receiver after end of show on the display-monitor.

17. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 13, wherein the workflow in the information center is as follows:

defining company-client,

defining company'"'"'s medias,

defining locations of the data end points,

defining company'"'"'s contracts,

defining relevant media,

defining relevant points,

defining requested frequency,

preparing for usage.

18. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 13, wherein said data information is transferred from the information center to the data end points divided to two different types, which are transferred by different canals:

the first type is textual data, for example news, measured in hundreds of bytes (up to 1 k bytes or a few kb);

this type of data is sent directly from the information center to the data end points;

the second type is multimedia data or any other “

big”

files such as big text files and/or applications measured in many kb (up to 100 mb);

this type of data will be transmitted throughout an intermediate unit—

a middleman between the information center and the data end point.

19. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 15, wherein the said partition of different types of data and transmitting them by different canals, allow to increase greatly transmission speed, and achieves transmitting speed of more then 100 mb per second.

20. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 13, wherein communication between the data end point and the information center is created by the communicational manager of the data end point each time quota, and includes:

sending data of location,

receiving data of current contracts,

receiving news.

21. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 13, wherein communication between the information center and the proxy is created all the time whenever certain data in the information center is ready.

22. A method of information passengers of the mass transportation vehicles according to claim 13, wherein the user is a skilled technician that needs to update all the technical data of the control-information system:

configuration of the information center, details of the proxies, details of the data end points, and maintain the commercial data;

the user is responsible to the maintenance of the term-system manager.