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US 9,959,756 B2Granted
Transmission of targeted roadway alerts
AssigneeHERE Global B.V.
InventorsGeorge Filley, Kevin Moran, Anatoly Belkin
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for transmission of targeted roadway alerts. A server receives a first description of an incident. The server determines an impact area of the incident based on the description. The server generates a geographic polygon based on the impact are of the incident. The server overlays the geographic polygon on a first cellular map and transmits an alert message to one or more devices located within a cell of the first cellular map that contains at least a portion of the geographic polygon.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- receiving a first description of an incident;
- determining an impact area of the incident based on the first description, the impact area comprising one or more road segments;
- generating a geographic polygon based on the impact area of the incident, the geographic polygon describing an area different than the impact area;
- overlaying the geographic polygon on a first cellular map;
- transmitting an alert message to one or more devices located within a cell of the first cellular map that contains at least a portion of the geographic polygon;
- overlaying the geographic polygon on a second cellular map, wherein the second cellular map includes different coverage patterns than the first cellular map;
- and
- transmitting the alert message to a device within a cell of the second cellular map that contain at least a portion of the geographic polygon.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs;
- the at least one memory configured to store the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least perform:
- receiving a description of an incident;
- generating an impact area of the incident based on the description;
- generating a geographic polygon based on the impact area of the incident, the geographic polygon different than the impact area;
- transmitting an alert message and the geographic polygon to a first cellular provider;
- and
- transmitting an alert message and the geographic polygon to a second cellular provider;
- wherein the first cellular provider and second cellular provider maintain different cellular patterns of coverage for the geographic polygon.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.