Patent ID: 6708107
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G08G,H04W

Abstract:
A traffic condition alert system comprisinga mobile unit having electronic connection to at least one ad hoc communications network, said mobile unit having a mobile unit status; a communications system executing on said mobile unit, said communications system enabling a flow of communications messages across said at least one ad hoc communications network; a mobile unit traffic characterization data system executing on said mobile unit, said mobile unit traffic characterization data system setting said mobile unit status, said mobile unit traffic characterization data system creating, transmitting, and receiving mobile unit traffic characterization data, said flow of communications messages containing said mobile unit traffic characterization data, said mobile unit traffic characterization data having a pre-defined relationship to said mobile unit status; a mobile unit traffic characterization protocol system executing on said mobile unit, said mobile unit traffic characterization protocol system sequencing execution of said mobile unit traffic characterization data system according to said flow of communications messages and said mobile unit status; and a report system executing on said mobile unit, said report system monitoring said mobile unit status, said report system preparing an interpretation of said mobile unit status and reporting said interpretation to a user of the traffic condition alert system.