Roadway travel data exchange network

• US 8,744,764 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Issued: 06/03/2014
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): HOLLOWAY, JASON R
• Application Number:
  US11/469,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20070106456A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,833 Days
• Field of Search: 701/201, 701/300, 701/117, 701/118, 701/119, 701/414, 701/482, 701/483, 701/484, 701/486, 701/516, 701/537, 340/988, 340/905
• US Class Current: 701/486
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09 Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions railroad crossing signals B61L; reflectors E01F, G08B; indicating arrangements for variable information by selection or combination of individual elements G09F9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for exchange of travel data in a roadway information system associated with a first roadway vehicle and a second roadway vehicle. In one embodiment, the roadway information system may comprise, for example, a first mobile client system associated with the first roadway vehicle, a second mobile client system associated with the second roadway vehicle, a wireless communication network, and a processing system communicatively coupled to the wireless communication network. The first mobile client system may deliver first travel related data to the processing system via the wireless communication network. The processing system may deliver second travel related data to the second mobile client system via the wireless communication network, where the second travel related data relates at least in part to the first travel related data.

Claims

1. A mobile client system, comprising:

at least one processor for determining location information of the mobile client system,

wherein said determined location information comprises one or both of a current location information of the mobile client system and/or a location information designated by a user of the mobile client system,

wherein the mobile client system communicates said determined location information to a processing system,

wherein the mobile client system receives from said processing system travel related data based, at least in part, on location information communicated by at least one of a plurality of other mobile client systems and on said determined location information of the mobile client system,

wherein the mobile client system enables communication of at least a portion of said received travel related data to said at least one of said plurality of other mobile client systems based on a set of permissions that is assigned to the mobile client system such that the mobile client system and said processing system cannot communicate at least said portion of said received travel related data to said at least one of said plurality of other mobile client systems without prior authorization by the mobile client system, and

wherein said at least one of said plurality of other mobile client systems is pre-authorized before said at least one of said plurality of other mobile client systems issues a request for said at least said portion of said received travel related data.

2. The system according to claim 1, comprising a wireless transmitter that transmits said location information to said processing system.

3. The system according to claim 1, comprising a wireless receiver that receives said travel related data from said processing system.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one processor for calculating said location information of the mobile client system comprises a Global Positioning System (GPS).

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one processor calculates said location information based on signal triangulation.

6. The system according to claim 1, comprising a display that displays at least a portion of said received travel related data.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein said received travel related data comprises one or both of velocity information and/or traffic information.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile client system receives from said processing system traffic information for a roadway location, and wherein said traffic information is calculated based at least in part on velocity of a plurality of vehicles located at or near said roadway location.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein said roadway location is proximate to said communicated location information of said mobile client system.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile client system receives from said processing system second travel related data for the mobile client system, based at least in part on said communicated location information of the mobile client system.

11. A processing system, comprising:

at least one processor for calculating travel related data for at least one of a plurality of mobile client systems,

wherein said plurality of mobile client systems is communicatively coupled to said at least one processor,

wherein said at least one processor receives location information for a first mobile client system and a second mobile client system of said plurality of mobile client systems,

wherein said at least one processor calculates said travel related data for said at least one of said plurality of mobile client systems, based at least in part on said received location information for said first mobile client system and said second mobile client system,

wherein said at least one processor communicates at least a portion of said calculated travel related data to said first mobile client system,

wherein said first mobile client system enables communication of at least a portion of said communicated travel related data to said second mobile client system based on a set of permissions that is assigned to said first mobile client system such that said first mobile client system and said processing system cannot communicate at least said portion of said communicated travel related data to said second mobile client system without prior authorization by said first mobile client system, and

wherein said second mobile client system is pre-authorized before said second mobile client system issues a request for said at least said portion of said communicated travel related data.

12. The system according to claim 11, comprising a wireless receiver that receives said location information for said first mobile client system and said second mobile client system.

13. The system according to claim 11, comprising a wireless transmitter that transmits said calculated travel related data to said at least one of said plurality of mobile client systems.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the processing system transmits to said at least one of said plurality of mobile client systems traffic information for a roadway location proximate to a location of one or both of said first mobile client system and said second mobile client system.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein said traffic information is calculated based at least in part on velocity of a plurality of vehicles located within at or near said roadway location.

16. The system according to claim 11, wherein said travel related data comprises at least one of the following:

traffic information and location information.

17. A mobile client system associated with a first roadway vehicle, the mobile client system comprising:

one or more circuits that enables measurement of traffic information associated with the first roadway vehicle; and

said one or more circuits enables transmission, via a wireless communication network, of said measured traffic information to a processing system,

wherein the mobile client system associated with the first roadway vehicle enables receipt from said processing system, of data generated based on said measured traffic information associated with the first roadway vehicle and traffic information measured by at least a second mobile client system associated with a second roadway vehicle, wherein during operation each of said first roadway vehicle and said second roadway vehicle monitors its own traffic information, and

wherein the mobile client system associated with the first roadway vehicle enables communication of at least a portion of said received data to said at least a second mobile client system based on a set of permissions that is assigned to said mobile client system associated with the first roadway vehicle such that said mobile client system associated with the first roadway vehicle and said processing system cannot communicate at least said portion of said received data to said at least said second mobile client system without prior authorization by said mobile client system associated with the first roadway vehicle, and

wherein said at least said second mobile client system is pre-authorized before said at least said second mobile client system issues a request for said at least said portion of said received data.

18. The mobile client system according to claim 17, wherein said traffic information associated with the first roadway vehicle and said traffic information associated with said second roadway vehicle comprise one or both of vehicle location and/or vehicle velocity.

19. The mobile client system according to claim 17, wherein said one or more circuits comprises a wireless transmitter that enables transmission of said measured traffic information to said processing system.

20. The mobile client system according to claim 17, wherein said one or more circuits comprises a wireless receiver that enables receipt of said data from said processing system.

21. The mobile client system according to claim 17, wherein said one or more circuits comprises a Global Positioning System (GPS).

22. The mobile client system according to claim 17, wherein said one or more circuits comprises a display that displays at least a portion of said received travel related data.