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Method for encoding messages, method for decoding messages, and receiver for receiving and evaluating messages

  • US 8,140,249 B2
  • Filed: 11/22/2006
  • Issued: 03/20/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • obtaining information about a plurality of traffic-related events from at least one source;

    selecting, as a main traffic-related event, a traffic-related event having a highest priority among the plurality of traffic-related events;

    encoding information about the main traffic-related event as a main traffic-related message;

    for each remaining traffic-related event in the plurality of traffic-related events, encoding the remaining traffic-related event as a supplementary traffic-related message when one of the following conditions exists;

    a local reference of the remaining traffic-related event is different from a local reference of the main traffic-related event;

    ora source of information about the remaining traffic-related event is different from a source of the information about the main traffic-related event; and

    transmitting each traffic-related message separately to a receiver device having a processing unit adapted to decode the traffic-related messages;

    wherein each traffic-related message includes traffic-related message contents, and the main traffic-related message includes a reference to each supplementary traffic-related message.

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