US 6,298,301 B1 · Traffic information servicing method

Abstract

A traffic information servicing method for providing traffic information around a specific car in an undetermined area is provided. The traffic information servicing method includes a car navigation device communicating with an information center for providing traffic information according to received car information, a radio telephone, and an adaptor for controlling the radio telephone comprising transmitting the car information from the car navigation device to the information center; analyzing the car information received from the car navigation device; determining a predetermined number and order of map areas corresponding to the analyzed car information; and transmitting the predetermined number and order of map areas as traffic information to the car navigation device.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A traffic information servicing method including a car navigation device communicating with an information center for providing traffic information according to received car information, a radio telephone, and an adaptor for controlling said radio telephone, comprising:

transmitting said car information from said car navigation device to said information center;
analyzing said car information received from said car navigation device;
determining a predetermined number and order of map areas corresponding to said analyzed car information;
and
transmitting said predetermined number and order of map areas and said traffic information to said car navigation device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/417,015Filed 12 Oct 1999

Priority

KR 98-4243510 Oct 1998

Granted

2 Oct 2001

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G01C 21/26
Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00: specially adapted for navigation in a road network
G08G 1/0962
Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions: having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
G08G 1/096716
Where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control: where the received information does not…
G08G 1/096758
Where a selection of the information might take place: where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information

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Abstract

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