Patent ID: 8488522
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for managing wireless communications for a plurality of devices in a high occupancy vehicle, comprising: a network provider; a high occupancy vehicle controller for creating a global bandwidth usage map across multiple vehicles, routes, and vehicle passengers using communications bandwidth; an enhanced ticketing system module having ticketing information regarding the device, said ticketing information input by one of the user, and a ticketing agent, and said ticketing information is the basis for the creation of a formal representation of estimated bandwidth requirements as a function of both place and time relative to the HOV route schedule; a wireless concentrator in the high occupancy vehicle; and a vehicle controller estimating bandwidth usage for one device of the plurality of devices, said estimating performed using said global bandwidth usage map and information from said network provider, wherein when a user of said one device is in said vehicle, said wireless concentrator manages the wireless communications for said device; wherein said high occupancy vehicle controller is connected to said enhanced ticketing system module to gather ticket and route information and obtain customer productivity data from a network; and parse obtained data into canonical form, and to input ticketing information by one of the user and a ticketing agent.