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Patent No.:

US 9014616 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 10, 2009

Alert content reception apparatus, alert content communications system and method of acquiring alert content

Applicants:

Berry Heerdink, Eindhoven, NL;

Theo Kamalski, Weert, NL;

Inventors:

Berry Heerdink, Eindhoven, NL;

Theo Kamalski, Weert, NL;

Assignee:

TomTom International B.V., Amsterdam, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Wesley Kim

Assistant Examiner:

Devan Sandiford

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/09 (2008.01); H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G08G 1/123 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G06G 7/70 (2006.01); G06G 7/76 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/22 (2009.01); H04W 76/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2013.01); H04W 4/001 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/027 (2013.01); H04W 4/22 (2013.01); H04W 76/007 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

An alert content reception apparatus comprises a communications interface () compatible with a data broadcast service and capable of receiving, when in use, a broadcast data message comprising reference data concerning alert content. The apparatus also comprises a processing resource () arranged to analyze, when in use, the broadcast data message and acquire the alert content associated with the reference data in response to determining that the alert content associated with the reference data has not previously been acquired. The communications interface () is compatible with a bidirectional data communications service, the processing resource () also being arranged to cooperate with the communications interface () in order to retrieve the alert content via the bidirectional data communications service.

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