Telematics Personal Route Profiles for Traffic Hotspot Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless systems in mobile vehicles, such as telematics units, lack the ability to effectively organize and present real-time traffic information to users in a timely and relevant manner, despite their capabilities in receiving and processing large amounts of electromagnetic traffic, including GPS and satellite signals.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that generates personal route profiles, compares predetermined GPS hotspots to these profiles, detects real-time traffic updates, and provides information related to identified GPS hotspots based on these updates, allowing users to receive timely and relevant traffic information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If telematics units receive and process large amounts of electromagnetic traffic including GPS and satellite signals, then the quantity of information available increases, but the ability to organize and present important information to the user in a timely manner deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the large volume of electromagnetic traffic into distinct categories (GPS signals, satellite signals, wireless communications) and further segments information processing by creating personalized route profiles that divide the information presentation into relevant segments based on user preferences and current location, making the information manageable and presentable
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating personal route profiles and pre-identifying GPS hotspots along these routes before the user needs the information. This allows the telematics unit to have organized information ready for timely presentation when the user approaches or is at relevant locations
2Loss of information
If the telematics unit processes all received electromagnetic traffic, then the completeness of information increases, but the timeliness of presenting important information to the user deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by tailoring the information presentation to the specific local context of the user's route and preferences. Different route profiles have different qualities of information presentation based on user-specific parameters, ensuring that the most relevant information is presented first without processing delays
Solution Approach 2:
By pre-processing and organizing information according to personal route profiles and pre-identifying GPS hotspots, the system ensures that when information needs to be presented, it is already organized and ready, maintaining both completeness and timeliness
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AI summary
The present invention provides a method of operating a telematics device within a mobile vehicle communication system. The method includes generating at least one personal route profile, comparing predetermined GPS hotspots to the personal route profiles, detecting real-time traffic updates associated with the predetermined GPS hotspots, identifying GPS hotspots corresponding to the personal route profile and based on the real-time traffic updates, and providing information relating to selected identified GPS hotspots based on the real-time traffic updates. The personal route profile may be generated from a user interface. The predetermined GPS hotspots may be created based on user interface input. The selected GPS hotspots may include all identified GPS hotspots within a predetermined geographic area of the personal route profile. The selected GPS hotspots may include GPS hotspots in the forward path of a vehicle including the telematics device.