Method of delivering traffic status updates via a social networking service

Abstract

A method of receiving traffic status updates from a social networking service includes a communication device subscribing to a feed of a traffic monitoring service on a social networking service and requesting the social networking service to send short messages to the communication device when new traffic data is submitted to the social networking service by the traffic monitoring service. The method also includes the communication device receiving a short message containing traffic data from the social networking service in response to the traffic monitoring service submitting traffic data to the social networking service, parsing the short message with the communication device and extracting the traffic data contained in the short message, and processing the traffic data with a routing module of the communication device.

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