PASSIVE TRAFFIC ALERT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
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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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74 Claims
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55. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a traffic alert system, traffic information including a traffic event; determining, within the traffic alert system, an event zone around the traffic event, the event zone defined by a shape and an extent; selecting, within the traffic alert system, a mobile device based on a location associated the mobile device in relationship to the event zone; sending, over a network from the traffic alert system, an alert message regarding the traffic event to the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. A traffic alerting system comprising:
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a wireless communication network; and a traffic alerting server communicatively coupled to the wireless communication network, the traffic alerting server including one or more processors communicatively coupled to a memory device, the memory device containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the traffic alerting server to; receive traffic information including a traffic event; determine an event zone around the traffic event, the event zone defined by a shape and an extent; select a mobile device based on a location associated the mobile device in send, over the wireless communication network, an alert message regarding the traffic event to the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73)
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74. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a traffic alert system, traffic information including a traffic event; determining, within the traffic alert system, an event zone around the traffic event, the event zone defined by a shape and an extent; sending, over a network from the traffic alert system, an alert message regarding the traffic event to a plurality of mobile devices; and determining, on a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices, whether to present the alert message based at least in part on a location of the first mobile device relative to the event zone.
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