PASSIVE TRAFFIC ALERT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A passive traffic alerting method, comprising the steps of:
- identifying traffic events from analyzing traffic information;
selecting an identified traffic event based on a location related to a mobile communicator; and
alerting the mobile communicator with a passive message regarding the selected traffic event without prompting the mobile communicator to launch an application on a mobile communication device.
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Abstract
A passive traffic alerting method includes: identifying traffic events from analyzing traffic information; selecting an identified traffic event based on a location of a mobile communicator; and alerting the mobile communicator with a passive message regarding the selected traffic event without prompting the mobile communicator to launch an application on a mobile communication device. In some cases a user-zone and an event zone is selected and the user gets alerted when his user-zone overlaps with the event-zone. The alert can contain hierarchical messages. The method may include: determining an alert zone by rating a traffic incident and overlaying maps of the incident, the cell-phone towers, and the corresponding road network; acquiring user identification of cell phone users from data from cell-phone towers in the alert-zone; identifying subscribers from acquired cell-phone tower data; matching subscribers with alerts in appropriate formats; and sending the appropriate alert messages to cell phones of identified subscribers.
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54 Claims
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1. A passive traffic alerting method, comprising the steps of:
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identifying traffic events from analyzing traffic information; selecting an identified traffic event based on a location related to a mobile communicator; and alerting the mobile communicator with a passive message regarding the selected traffic event without prompting the mobile communicator to launch an application on a mobile communication device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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30. The method of claim I, the alerting the mobile communicator comprising
alerting the mobile communicator on a separate communication line of the mobile communication device.
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51. A passive traffic alert method, comprising the steps of:
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identifying traffic events from analyzing traffic information; selecting a user-zone based on a location related to a mobile communicator; selecting an identified traffic event based on a relation of identified traffic events and the user-zone; and alerting the mobile communicator with a passive message regarding the selected traffic event.
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52. A passive traffic alert method, comprising the steps of:
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identifying traffic events from analyzing traffic information; selecting an identified traffic event based on a location related to a mobile communicator; and alerting the mobile communicator regarding the selected traffic event with a plurality of messages in a hierarchical manner.
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53. A passive traffic alert method, comprising the steps of:
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determining an alert zone by rating a traffic incident and overlaying a map of the incident, a map of cell-phone towers, and a map of a corresponding road network; acquiring user identification data of cell phone users from data from cell-phone towers in the alert-zone; identifying subscribers from the acquired user identification data; matching subscribers with appropriate alerts; and sending appropriate alert messages to cell phones of identified subscribers.
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54. A passive traffic alert method, comprising the step of:
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receiving traffic alert information and start composing an alert message in response; composing alert message; compiling alert message in different formats; routing differently formatted alert messages to subscribers expecting that format; and sending the routed alert messages to the corresponding subscribers through matching gateways of a service provider and a cell-phone carrier.
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Specification