Patent ID: 9305462
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: B60R,B60W,G01C,G01S,G08G,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication transponder adapted to operate in a first vehicle wherein the transponder is adapted to accept as input a first location of the first vehicle and a vehicle heading of the first vehicle, and wherein the transponder is adapted to broadcast a series of V2V safety messages wherein a majority of V2V safety messages comprise: (i) the first vehicle position; (ii) the first vehicle heading; and (iii) a first vehicle speed; and wherein the transponder comprises a lane map data store in non-transitory memory; wherein the improvement is: the lane map data store further comprises: (i) a location point store comprising one or more location points, and (ii) a lane records store; wherein the location point store comprises a plurality of locations contained in V2V safety messages received by or transmitted by the V2V communication transponder; wherein the lane records store comprises one or more lane records and wherein each lane record comprises: (i) a lane type, and (ii) location data that identifies the location of the lane.