Patent ID: 8990005
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for providing georeferenced predictive information to motor vehicles, the method comprising the acts of: receiving, by one or more backend servers from a vehicle over a wireless network, vehicle route information corresponding to a vehicle route, wherein the vehicle route information comprises digital map data organized into nodes and links having specific data describing route attributes; reconstructing the vehicle route on a server-side digital map, by the one or more backend servers, using the vehicle route information received from the vehicle; populating, by the one or more backend servers, the server-side digital map with predictive information that is relevant to the vehicle route, wherein the predictive information is georeferenced to a particular location or area; converting, by the one or more backend servers, the predictive information into a format corresponding to the vehicle; and transmitting, by one or more backend servers over the wireless network, the predictive information to the vehicle, wherein the transmitted predictive information is configured to be used by the vehicle in constructing and displaying the vehicle route on a vehicle-side digital map.