Patent ID: 9652982
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G08G

Claim:
1. A method for learning traffic events, in which the traffic events are transmitted by vehicle-to-X communication to a data network, the method comprising: detecting, by a vehicle, the traffic events, assigning, by the vehicle, position data and time data to the traffic events, transmitting, by the vehicle, the traffic events to network elements of the data network located along a traffic route at a distance from the vehicle, storing electronically, by the data network, the traffic events, defining, by the data network, an individual retention period for each of the traffic events, prolonging, by the data network, the retention period for each of the respective traffic events when the respective traffic events are re-transmitted to the data network, and deleting, by the data network, each of the respective traffic events when the respective retention period expires.