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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Carla J. M. Emmerink, Eindhoven, NL;
Edwin W. Mulder, Eindhoven, NL;
Erik J. Walgers, Eindhoven, NL;
Paul D. M. E. Lahaije, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
Mannesmann VDO AG, Frankfurt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
A navigation system (,) guiding a driver of a vehicle has a receiver (,) for the reception of traffic message. The navigation system has a filter module (,) that determines the delay caused by the event of the received traffic message. The filter module only transfers the traffic message to the process module (,) of the navigation system if the delay is larger than a threshold (,).