Patent ID: 9293040
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G08G

Claim Text:
1. A computerized method of assessing a value of traffic speed information in a set of incoming GPS probe data, comprising: extracting GPS information and one or more parameters from incoming GPS probe data using one or more GPS components configured to receive and process the incoming GPS probe data, the one or more parameters including a measure of confidence of positional measurement precision in the GPS information for determining spatial and temporal coverage on a road network; performing an initial evaluation of the incoming GPS probe data to filter unneeded data points and conduct a preliminary assessment of probe coverage relative to a geographical grouping of roadway links; and modeling the incoming GPS probe data relative to the geographical grouping of roadway links to determine a road network coverage, within a computing environment comprised of hardware and software components that include at least one processor specifically configured to evaluate speed data in the incoming GPS probe data, by: