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US 5,774,827 AGranted
Commuter route selection system
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsBernard C. Smith, Jr., Jeanne A. Shands
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Abstract
A commuter route selection system (10) includes a portable device (12) for receiving a travel time for at least one preselected commuter route and disseminating the travel time to a user and a central facility (14) for storing the at least one preselected commuter route and for obtaining current traffic information for the preselected commuter route. The central facility (14) transmits a current travel time for the preselected commuter route to the portable device (12).
Claims10
A commuter route selection system comprising:
- a portable device for receiving a travel time for at least one preselected commuter route and disseminating the travel time to a user;
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- a central facility for storing the at least one preselected commuter route and for obtaining current traffic information for the at least one preselected commuter route, wherein the central facility transmits a current travel time for the at least one preselected commuter route to the portable device.
A commuter route selection system comprising:
- a central facility for storing a plurality of preselected commuter routes for each of a plurality of users and for obtaining current traffic information for each preselected commuter route;
- a plurality of portable devices wherein each portable device is designated for a particular user for receiving a current travel time for each preselected commuter route for the particular user and disseminating the current travel time to the particular user;
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- wherein the central facility transmits the current travel time to one of the plurality of portable devices in response to a request from the portable device.
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A commuter route selection system comprising:
- a central facility for storing a plurality of preselected commuter routes for each of a plurality of users and for obtaining current traffic information for each preselected commuter route;
- a plurality of portable devices wherein each portable device is designated for a particular user for receiving a current travel time for each preselected commuter route for the particular user and disseminating the current travel time to the particular user;
- wherein the central facility transmits the current travel time to one of the plurality of portable devices in response to a request from the portable device;
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- wherein each portable device includes a global positioning system unit for transmitting a present location to the central facility and wherein the central facility uses each present location for determining at least a portion of the current traffic information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.