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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2001
Ronnie Burns, Irvine, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing personalized traffic alerts to a user by automatic processing of vehicle position and traffic alert conditions. The system employs at least one user portion and a server portion, wherein the server portion provides the user portion with traffic alert information. The user portion comprises a receiver, a position locator, a processor, a memory storage area, and an output device. The processor calculates the vehicle trajectory and in addition, the processor can predict the vehicle route based on the calculated vehicle trajectory, and historical routes in the memory storage area. The processor also correlates relevant traffic alerts by comparing the traffic alert information with the calculated vehicle trajectory or the predicted vehicle route. In another embodiment, the user portion further includes an input device for user determined routes and personalized user parameters for route weighting factors in predicting the vehicle route as well as traffic alert cone parameters and time to intersect traffic alert parameters for providing user selectable thresholds for generating pertinent essential and personalized traffic alerts.