Method and system for supplying additional vehicle information from an asset tracking system
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsIan Christopher Drummond Doig, Stephen John Barrett
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Abstract
A method at a first computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System for vehicle length reporting, the method including receiving, at the computing device, a position from a second computing device; finding position information for the first computing device; calculating a difference between the position found for the first computing device and the position reported from the second computing device; and using the difference for vehicle length reporting.
Claims25
A method at a first computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System for vehicle length reporting, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the first computing device, a reported position from a second computing device;
- finding position information for the first computing device from a position sensor;
- determining that a time stamp for the reported position from the second computing device, and a time stamp for the position information for the first computing device are within a threshold time of each other;
- calculating a difference between the position found for the first computing device and the position reported from the second computing device;
- and
- using the difference for vehicle length reporting.
A first computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System for vehicle length reporting, the first computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a communications subsystem,
- wherein the first computing device is configured to:
- receive a reported position from a second computing device;
- find position information for the first computing device from a position sensor;
- determine that a time stamp for the reported position from the second computing device, and a time stamp for the position information for the first computing device are within a threshold time of each other;
- calculate a difference between the position found for the first computing device and the position reported from the second computing device;
- and
- use the difference for vehicle length reporting.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing instruction code which, when executed by a processor of a first computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System for vehicle length reporting cause the first computing device to:
- wherein the first computing device is configured to:
- receive a reported position from a second computing device;
- find position information for the first computing device from a position sensor;
- determine that a time stamp for the reported position from the second computing device, and a time stamp for the position information for the first computing device are within a threshold time of each other;
- calculate a difference between the position found for the first computing device and the position reported from the second computing device;
- and
- use the difference for vehicle length reporting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.