Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Nebojsa Nedeljkovic

Richard Alan Johnson

Dwayne A Crocker

Gary A Watkins

Chester A Huber

Laurence J Tretyak

Christine E Meissner

Jie Song

An improved guidance system and method provide a packaged tour object having tour directions and media related to points of interest of a tour for playing via a telematics unit. A user is provided, via their telematics unit, with specific directions to access points of interest of the tour in a certain sequence, while the telematics unit optionally conveys media content to the user at appropriate points. The media content may be keyed to an upcoming site, and may comprise audio and/or visual information. In addition, user convenience information such as parking and ticketing information may be contained ion the packaged tour object for presentation via the telematics unit.

Packaged tours with turn-by-turn navigation

One aspect of the invention provides a method of deploying disaster alerts to a mobile vehicle. The method includes determining disaster area coordinates of a disaster area and calculating buffer coordinates of a buffer region based on the disaster area coordinates. The method further describes a vehicle circle based on a radius of at least one location coordinate of the mobile vehicle and compares the vehicle circle with the buffer region coordinates. The disaster area coordinates are compared with the vehicle circle. The method then deploys at least one disaster alert based on the comparison of the vehicle circle and buffer region coordinates and disaster area coordinates.

Method and system for deploying disaster alerts in a mobile vehicle communication system

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Birmingham, MI, United States of America

Nebojsa Nedeljkovic