Patent ID: 7869940
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: G06Q,G07B,G08G

Abstract:
1. A computer program product loadable into the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions for performing, when said product is run on the digital computer, a method for processing road use data by a first apparatus within a first moving vehicle, said method comprising: transmitting, by the first apparatus, a set of broadcasts to at least one vehicle in motion located in a vicinity of the first moving vehicle at a time of said transmitting, wherein the set of broadcasts consists of a single broadcast or a time-sequenced series of broadcasts, and wherein each broadcast in the set comprises broadcast data that includes a location and identifier of the first moving vehicle; receiving, by the first apparatus, a broadcast of broadcast data from each vehicle in motion in conjunction with an encounter between the first moving vehicle and each corresponding vehicle in motion, wherein the broadcast data from each vehicle in motion includes a location and identifier of said each vehicle in motion; and generating, by the first apparatus, a set of encounter records such that each encounter record pertains to the encounter between the first moving vehicle and the corresponding vehicle in motion, wherein each encounter record includes encounter data that comprises: (1) the location of the first moving vehicle in the broadcast data of the broadcast transmitted by the first moving vehicle to the corresponding vehicle in motion, and (2) the location and identifier of the corresponding vehicle in motion in the broadcast data of the broadcast received by the first moving vehicle from the corresponding vehicle in motion; and storing in the first apparatus the set of encounter records, said storing being performed by the first apparatus.