INFORMATION FILTERING AND PROCESSING IN A ROADWAY TRAVEL DATA EXCHANGE NETWORK

• US 20110288757A1
• Filed: 05/24/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ignatin, Gary
• Granted Patent: US 9,311,817 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/119
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0967 Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0968 Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096805 where the transmitted instructions are used to compute a route

Abstract

A traffic monitoring system includes one or more processors operable to collect location data from a third-party network having a mobile user, weight at least one element of the location data based on reliability, and generate traffic speed data at a roadway location based on the weighted data. The third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network. The one or more processors are operable to deliver the traffic speed data at the roadway location to an alternate third-party network. The alternate third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A traffic monitoring system, comprising:

one or more processors operable to;

collect location data from a third-party network having a mobile user;

weight at least one element of the location data based on reliability; and

generate traffic speed data at a roadway location based on the weighted data.

23. The traffic monitoring system of claim 22, wherein the third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

24. The traffic monitoring system of claim 22, wherein the one or more processors are operable to deliver the traffic speed data at the roadway location to an alternate third-party network.

25. The traffic monitoring system of claim 24, wherein the alternate third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

26. The traffic monitoring system of claim 22, wherein the one or more processors are operable to generate the traffic speed data by filtering the location data.

27. The traffic monitoring system of claim 26, wherein the filtering of the location data is based on the weighted data.

28. The traffic monitoring system of claim 22, wherein the one or more processors are operable to generate the traffic speed data by discarding at least a portion of the location data based on the reliability.

29. A method for monitoring traffic, the method comprising:

performing by one or more processors and/or circuits, functions comprising;

collecting location data from a third-party network having a mobile user;

weighting at least one element of the location data based on reliability; and

generating traffic speed data at a roadway location based on the weighted data.

30. The method according to claim 29, wherein the third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

31. The method according to claim 29, comprising delivering the traffic speed data at the roadway location to an alternate third-party network.

32. The method according to claim 31, wherein the alternate third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

33. The method according to claim 29, comprising generating the traffic speed data by filtering the location data.

34. The method according to claim 33, wherein the filtering of the location data is based on the weighted data.

35. The method according to claim 29, comprising generating the traffic speed data by discarding at least a portion of the location data based on the reliability.

36. A weather monitoring system, comprising:

one or more processors operable to;

collect data comprising temperature from a third-party network having a mobile user;

weight at least one element of the temperature data based on reliability; and

calculate weather information at a location based on the weighted data.

37. The weather monitoring system of claim 36, wherein the third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

38. The weather monitoring system of claim 36, wherein the one or more processors are operable to deliver the weather information at the location to an alternate third-party network.

39. The weather monitoring system of claim 38, wherein the alternate third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

40. The weather monitoring system of claim 36, wherein the one or more processors are operable to calculate the weather information by filtering the collected data.

41. The weather monitoring system of claim 36, wherein the one or more processors are operable to calculate the weather information by discarding at least a portion of the collected data based on the reliability.

42. A method for monitoring weather, the method comprising:

performing by one or more processors and/or circuits, functions comprising;

collecting data comprising temperature from a third-party network having a mobile user;

weighing at least one element of the temperature data based on reliability; and

calculating weather information at a location based on the weighted data.

43. The method according to claim 42, wherein the third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

44. The method according to claim 42, comprising delivering the weather information at the location to an alternate third-party network.

45. The method according to claim 44, wherein the alternate third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.

46. The method according to claim 42, comprising calculating the weather information by filtering the collected data.

47. The method according to claim 42, comprising calculating the weather information by discarding at least a portion of the collected data based on the reliability.